A sessions court has sentenced a man to seven years imprisonment for sexually abusing a minor boy. Saifullah alias Qari was found guilty of assaulting a ten-year-old boy in the Kashmir Colony within the jurisdiction of the Mahmoodabad police station in November 2022. Additional Sessions Judge (South) Ashraf Hussain Khowaja ruled that apart from a few contradictions of a minor nature in the prosecution evidence, which he termed immaterial, the case has been established
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KARACHI: With approximately 700,000 book sets distributed, the Sindh Textbook Board (STBB) has claimed to have “successfully” completed the delivery of textbooks to government schools in the Karachi region. The move came almost a week after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah directed the education department to ensure the distribution of 4.453 million textbooks by August 14, 2024, to facilitate a smooth start of the new academic year in government-run schools. The schools
BAHAWALPUR: The Bahawalpur district health authorities would launch a vaccination campaign to protect over 6,500 registered nomad children against polio, measles, and other diseases. According to the district health officer (DHO), under a crash programme, the registration of gypsy children has been completed and the vaccinators of the health department would administer vaccines to them at their identified temporary camping sites. He said the performance of the field staff would be strictly monitored. Meanwhile,
The 2023 Census conducted by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics released its complete report in July 2024 indicates that the total population of Pakistan is 240 million out of which the population of children under 18 is 112 Million (47% of the total population). Children Population (under 18) Population under 18 Total Male Female Transgender Pakistan 112,472,700 58,099,978 54,370,121 2,601 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 20,321,058 10,502,857 9,817,981 220 Punjab 56,320,353 28,853,198 27,465,596 1559 Sindh 26,710,708 13,922,057
ISLAMABAD: Sahil’s Six Months Cruel Numbers data reveals that a total of 1,630 cases of child abuse were reported from across the country. In the first six months of 2024, 862 cases of child sexual abuse, 668 cases of abduction, 82 cases of missing children, and 18 cases of child marriages were reported. This year, 48 cases of pornography after sexual abuse were also recorded. Six-monthly data shows that out of the total reported
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 8 August directed the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) to establish 300 digital ‘microschools’ to enroll 300,000 out-of-school children and hire over 600 female learning facilitators and approved Rs800 million for the purpose. He gave these directives to the SEF while presiding over its board meeting that was attended among others by Education Minister Syed Sardar Shah, Chief Secretary Asif Hyder Shah, Planning and Development Chairman Najam
GUJRAT: In a shocking incident of gender-based hate crime, a man allegedly threw his infant daughter into a canal on 8th August for not having a boy. The incident happened at village Chak Fateh Shah of Dinga Police. Rescue 1122 team launched a search for the body of the three-month-old girl in the Upper Jhelum Canal. Initial investigation said Ali Ahmed Raza Sabri was not happy after he could not have a baby boy
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was on 8 August told that there was no high school for girls in Lower Kohistan where 28 female students had reached high level in the entire district. In response to a question moved by MPA Sajjadullah from PK-32 Lower Kohistan, the Primary and Elementary Education Department informed that there should be at least 25 students for upgrading a middle school to a high level and there are about 28
PESHAWAR: Girls outperformed boys in both science and arts groups in secondary school certificate (SSC) examinations as results were declared by boards of intermediate and secondary education (BISE) on 8th August. Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur distributed prizes among the students, who achieved distinction, at a ceremony held in the Chief Minister’s House. Peshawar Model School for Girls-II Dalazak Road students Syeda Sawera Jehan, Saneya Faisal, and Marwa Alam clinched first position in the
CHITRAL: Thousands of students in the flood-hit villages of Chitral Valley are unable to attend their respective schools as the connecting bridges have been washed away by the flash floods. The Yarkhoon valley in Upper Chitral is the worst affected where both the jeepable and the pedestrian bridges connecting the Miragram, Emit, Phashk, and Sunich villages with Bang village were swept away by the floods. The students, including girls, from these villages won’t be
Breastfeeding is widely recognized as the best source of nutrition for infants, providing significant benefits to both the infant and mother. However, the use of infant formula has become increasingly common on a global scale, largely due to powerful marketing strategies employed by the formula industry. The aim of this report is to explain the newest marketing strategies used by the breastmilk substitute (BMS) industry on social media platforms. The report is based on
Islamabad: NCRC Pakistan, convened 3rd meeting of its Working Group of Religious Scholars. Agenda for the meeting was to initiate a dialogue on crucial issues like Child Marriage and Birth Registration among the religious leaders/scholars and to present research being conducted by NCRC in collaboration with UNICEF Pakistan and Oxford University. Key findings of the study were shared and the participants gave their insights on the subject and reaffirmed their commitment to support NCRC