LAHORE: A sessions court on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment on four counts to a young man for killing his mother, two sisters and a brother under the alleged influence of the online game PUBG. Kahna police had registered a case against the convict, Ali Zain, who was 14-year-old at the time of occurrence in 2022. Additional District & Sessions Judge Riaz Ahmad announced the guilty verdict, awarding Zain life imprisonment (25 years) on four counts and
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Women, students, senior citizens and persons with disabilities will travel free of cost on Punjab’s first electric bus service, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif announced on Monday while inaugurating the project in Sahiwal. After riding one of the new buses herself, the chief minister called the initiative “a milestone in modern and affordable public transport.” She said 30 buses have been allocated for the city and 62 for the division, with the regular fare
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank stated on September 23 that Pakistan’s current economic growth model does not support poverty reduction, resulting in stalled income gains, with poverty already at an eight-year high in 2024. The ‘Reclaiming Momentum Towards Prosperity: Pakistan’s Poverty, Equity and Resilience Assessment’ report by the World Bank further disclosed that the aspiring middle class, which constitutes 42.7% of the population, is “struggling to achieve full economic security”. “The aspiring middle class is
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was presented with detailed statistics regarding government schools, teachers, and students in Peshawar. According to the Education Department on Tuesday, there are a total of 1,619 government schools under the board’s jurisdiction, including 891 for boys and 728 for girls. The number of teachers across these institutions is 16,300 with 6,985 male and 9,315 female teachers. The report further revealed that in the latest examinations, the number of male students
RAWALPINDI: Due to alleged inaction by the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation, District Council and district administration, stray dogs have proliferated across the city and made life difficult for residents. Citizens are living in fear of stray dogs. Packs of dogs are seen roaming streets and neighbourhoods from morning through evening. Groups of dogs have begun to gather outside butcher shops, chicken shops and small roadside hotels. Incidents of women and children being bitten have been
KARACHI: The body of a seven-year-old boy who had gone missing was found in the Landhi area, and a post-mortem examination confirmed that he had been raped before being murdered, police said on September 23. Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed told Dawn that the body of the boy, identified as Saad, was brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Monday night for medico-legal formalities. She said the body was in an advanced
SAHIWAL: On the order of an additional sessions judge, a team of the district chapter of the Child Protection Bureau (CPB) raided an orphanage at Chichawatni on September 23 , recovering 18 children, 17 of them from Balochistan, who were allegedly being tortured by their teachers and caretakers. The incident came to light after a video went viral on social media, showing a teacher beating a minor boy with a stick, while two other
LAHORE: The Punjab government has ordered de novo inquiry proceedings against a senior medical officer/ex-medical superintendent (MS) of the Children Hospital Faisalabad for allegedly committing blatant violation of procurement and financial rules, as well as for continuation of irregular and unauthiorised execution of maintenance and repair work. The ex-MS was also accused of giving ‘undue’ favour to a private firm which was owned by his wife. The health secretary appointed Prof Dr Tayyiba Wasim,
PESHAWAR: The National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC), in collaboration with Unicef Pakistan and with support from the government of the Netherlands, on September 23 launched a study on the situation of displaced and migrant children in the country, along with an accompanying policy brief. The study, titled “Generating Evidence on Internally Displaced Children, Afghan Child Migrants and Forcibly Displaced Children in Pakistan,” provides the first consolidated evidence on the experiences, vulnerabilities
TOBA TEK SINGH: Shorkot City police in Jhang on September 23 registered a case against five teens and arrested three of them for allegedly kidnapping their five friends and forcing them to rape each other over a quarrel. Police spokesperson told the media that five class IX students were on their way to tuition centre on Monday afternoon when their five friends forcibly took them into a house where they tortured the five nine-graders
KARAK: A man was arrested on charges of filming students of Government Girls Degree College Takht-i-Nusrati here on September 23, according to police sources. The sources said District Police Officer of Karak Shahbaz Ilahi took notice of public complaints regarding the uploading the videos of the students of the college on TikTok and directed the station house officer of the police station concerned to take action against the accused identified as Abdullah a resident
KARACHI: Nearly 35,000 parents in Sindh have reportedly refused to get their children vaccinated against poliovirus, with the majority of refusals reported from Karachi. The Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme, in collaboration with the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), had carried out a vaccination campaign in 25 districts of the province from September 1 to 7. The latest campaign had initially targeted 2.1 million children, but a significant number of children in Sindh, particularly Karachi,