This video highlights the significance of family support and its crucial role in a child’s development. Dr. Afifa Qulsoom shares practical advice on positive parenting, emphasizing its contribution to fostering a law-abiding nation. The video explores strategies for handling children while maintaining a harmonious and nurturing parent-child relationship.
Child Rights in Focus
The video highlights the significance of administering polio drops to children. It aims to raise awareness about the role of polio drops in eradicating the disease and ensuring the health and well-being of future generations.
NOTWITHSTANDING Pakistan`s marginal contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions and the country’s greater vulnerability to climate change-driven natural disasters, policymakers seem preoccupied with climate mitigation, ie, GHG emission reduction. COP28 refreshed the resolve of countries to achieve the Nationally Determined Contributions; however, the NDC`s focus in Pakistan is on climate mitigation. For example, the NDC document has ambitious but impractical aspirations relating to climate mitigation and cost estimates. However, it hardly makes a strong
WITH elections behind us, it is time to get our focus right. Of course, putting the national economy back on track will take precedence over much else in the short term. However, in doing so, we should not lose sight of the long term, and in that context education is a key sector that deserves a serious commitment. It will be worth our while to look around and see what the world at large
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Education on 27 Feb 2024 launched a report on its campaign `Zero Out-of-School Children` (ZOOSC), stating that more than 70,941 children have been enrolled in schools across Islamabad, bringing the number of out-of-school children in the capital to a `zero`. The report is based on last year’s campaign launched by the education ministry in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica). Though the institute claimed there were zero
HARIPUR: The Ghazi tehsil police claimed to have arrested a woman along with her two accomplices for allegedly strangling her minor nephew and throwing his body into a well, officials said here on 27 Feb 2024. They said Abdul Moeed, 8, a student of grade III, went to school on Feb 21, but didn’t get back home. The family searched for the missing boy, but could not find any clue, and informed the police.
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has been requested to strike down the law criminalising abortion to the extent of rape victims. `The pro-choice is a reality, which is why it is important that women should have access to medical services without any preconceived notions and biases,` says a public interest petition filed by Advocate Aasya Ismail. The lawyer pleads that pro-choice, the freedom to choose abortion, is a fundamental right. The lawyer argues that
KHYBER: Khyber tribal district has reported no polio case since 2019 and largely controlled vaccination refusals due to community mobilisation campaigns and involvement of local volunteers for immunisation, said speakers at an event on 24 Feb 2024. Health officials called the Alliance Building and Sensitisation Session with elected representatives and influencers from Landi Kotal tehsil ahead of the upcoming National Immunisation Day campaign.The organisers said the event was called to `garner support for polio
A two-year-old girl was shot dead by armed bike snatchers in a Korangi area, police said on 24 Feb 2024. Korangi SHO Amin Solangi said that a man, identified as Hassan, reached home from work on his new motorcycle on 23 Feb 2024 night. When he reached home, three armed men riding a motorbike, who were ostensibly chasing him, emerged there, held him at gunpoint and demanded his two-wheelers. The SHO said that as
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Faisalabad handed down life term and Rs220m fine to a woman fake faith healer who had set a girl on fire to exorcise ‘jinns’ from her in 2022. According to the prosecution, the victim girl, Sonia, was reportedly mentally ill and her parents called a woman faith healer, Shamim Bibi, from Jhang who burnt her different body parts of the girl with coal fire. Bibi told the victim’s parents
A minor girl employed as a domestic help had allegedly been tortured by her employer and his two sisters to death in Nemat Colony No 2 locality of Faisalabad. According to the first information report (FIR) registered under sections 302 and 34 of the the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), complainant Ghulam Murtaza of Chak 229-RB, Makkuana, said his daughter Ayesha Bibi, 11 years old, was employed as a domestic help in the house of
Residents of Bannu district, including political and social activists, have asked the provincial government to upgrade the school for children with disability to high level. Talking to reporters on 23rd Feb 2024, they said the population of differently-abled children was in the thousands but they lacked educational and other facilities. They said the social welfare department had set up the school for children from Bannu, Lukki Marwat and North Waziristan districts, and keeping in