BAJAUR/LOWER DIR: A ceremony was held in the Khar area of Bajaur district on March 17 to inaugurate the school enrolment campaign, with speakers emphasising the need for concerted efforts to make the drive result-oriented. The inaugural ceremony was arranged by the education department’s local office. Deputy commissioner Shahid Ali Khan, deputy district education officer Lawoo Dan Shahid, and others were present on the occasion. The speakers urged the citizens, particularly influential community members,
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SARGODHA: A man allegedly killed his wife, daughter and four minor sons in the name of “honour” and later attempted suicide at Chak No 25-SB in Bhagtanwala police station limits. According to police sources, the suspect, Yasin, allegedly axed to death his family members and attempted suicide by injuring himself with a knife on the night of Mar 15. According to the police, complainant Mansoor Hasnain said his sister Farkhunda was married to Yasin
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Monday sent a man to prison on judicial remand in a case pertaining to possession and transmission of child sexual abuse material on WhatsApp. The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) had initiated an inquiry on a complaint filed by one of its officials, following a report from the National Centre for Missing and Exploitation (NCMEC). The complainant had claimed that the suspect possessed and shared `child pornographic content`
KASUR: Seven children showing measles symptoms were hospitalised on Mar 16, belonging to Veerkay Nau village near Talwandi in Chunian tehsil, where locals say no one has ever been vaccinated against the contagious disease. As per local sources, the cases surfaces when a doctor, who was no a private visit to the village, notices some children of the host family with measles symptoms. He was alarmed to know that the entire population of the
CHINIOT: A private school was sealed for violating vacation orders while 53 unregistered schools got notices. Chiniot District Education Authority Chief Executive Officer Azhar Sohail Niazi sent notices to 53 unregistered schools operating in all three tehsils of district Chiniot. The notice said that the Punjab Private Educational Institutions Ordinance 1984 barred all unregistered schools from operations or continuing functioning without an e-License. Moreover, the ordinance provides powers to impose a fine which may
THE federal government has embarked upon the welcome initiative to enrol 25,000 out-of-school children in Islamabad within three months. With Pakistan home to roughly 26m out-of-school children, a serious effort to get them into classrooms is essential and long overdue. The campaign’s structure suggests that the authorities recognise the scale of the challenge. Door-to-door surveys, the mobilisation of university volunteers, collaboration with NGOs and the creation of community schools near identified hotspots are all
QUETTA: The Balochistan government on Mar 16 decided to upgrade nearly 1,000 schools and launch a five-year programme to bring out-of-school children into the formal education system. The decisions were taken at a provincial government meeting convened to discuss preparations for the upcoming budget. Chief Secretary Shakeel Qadir Khan briefed participants of the meeting on key features of the next fiscal year’s budget, with particular focus on improving the education sector and expanding access
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There is something deeply wrong with how easily Pakistan has learned to absorb horrific news. Sahil, an organisation working towards developing an environment free from child abuse and neglect, has recently released figures revealing that 3,630 cases of child abuse were reported in 2025, which is an 8 percent rise from the year before. This travesty has somehow landed in the news cycle with barely a ripple, highlighting how disturbingly normal such violence has
A total of 3,630 child abuse cases were reported across Pakistan in 2025, according to new figures released by Sahil, which monitors violence against children and women. In a statement issued on Monday, the organisation said the cases had been reported in 81 different newspapers from across the four provinces, as well as Islamabad Capital Territory, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Sahil said the total represented an 8% increase, or 266 more cases,
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training on Sunday set the target of enrolling 25,000 out-of-school children (OOSC) in Islamabad in the next three months as part of its campaign. “Ministry of Education has set a target to enroll 25,000 out-of-school children (OOSC) in Islamabad Capital Territory within the next three months as part of 3 year rolling plan to enroll all out of school children,” said a statement issued by the