The city police in Peshawar on 31 March 2024 safely recovered a newborn abducted from Women and Children Hospital, Rajar, and arrested four accused involved in the crime, according to news report. SP investigations lhsan Shah accompanied by SHO Taimur Saleem told a press conference here that police were informed that on March 26 a newborn baby went missing from the hospital`s gynaecology ward. Taking notice of the kidnapping, district police officer Nazir Khan
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The 2024 observance of World Autism Day is aligned with the implementation status and progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition representing human evolution and neurodiversity among all world populations. The SDGs are universally agreed goals adopted in 2015 by the UN to bridge economic disparities in 17 overlapping areas including access to quality health, education and safety. They promote gender equality and inclusive economic growth and employment for all.
The Provincial Education Department has formally issued a notification announcing the commencement of the new academic year session 2024-25 from April 1 for all government schools. Simultaneously, an inflation bomb has been dropped on the parents of students as a new admission policy has been introduced, which restricted admission for a significant number of students in government schools. Cutting down on admission quotas may prove detrimental to school-aged children The Education Department has directed
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court took exception to a decision of authorities for categorizing the case of a 14-year-old missing boy as of ‘enforced disappearance’ and summoned the DIG (investigation) for an explanation in this regard. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto observed that it was unable to understand on which basis a joint investigation team (JIT) for missing persons had declared the case of an underage boy as enforced disappearance whereas
While there has been a slight decrease in measles` cases with the weather conditions getting warmer in a couple of days, the highly contagious infection remains a serious public health concern in Karachi as complicated cases continue to be reported at the city’s tertiary care hospitals, it emerged on 30 March 2024. According to experts, the majority of children being brought to hospitals are unvaccinated and malnourished. ‘This month, 80 children have been admitted
Nine more environmental samples, collected from all the four provinces, have been found to be positive for Type-1 wild poliovirus (WPV1), taking the tally of positive tests for the current year to 83. Besides, Badin has been included in the list of 30 districts whose sewage water carries the virus of the crippling disease. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, has confirmed the detection of WPV1
LAYYAH: A 9-year-old mentally challenged was sexually assaulted in the district headquarters hospital within the limits of City Police Station. A police spokesperson said 15-year-old Abrar raped the minor girl who came to visit her grandmother in the surgical ward. The accused, who worked at a nearby General Bus Station as a porter, lured the victim to a deserted area of the hospital by offering her candies. A CCTV footage of the incident was
NO, the article is not about the ‘boys’ often referred to in Pakistan. It is actually about schooling and the need to think about the support that boys also need in schools. We still have a significant gender gap in enrolments in schools in Pakistan, and it persists across the primary, middle, secondary and higher-secondary levels. According to the Pakistan Education Statistics 2021-22 report released by the Pakistan Institute of Education recently, gross enrolment
KARACHI: A father, whose son fell into an open manhole last year, filed a lawsuit on Thursday in court, seeking more than Rs60 million in damages against the Karachi Water & Sewerage Board (KWSB) and the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) over their negligence. Last year in May, six-year-old Abyan Uddin, student of class KG-H, was playing cricket with his 10-year-old brother Arib Uddin, and their friends when he slipped and fell into an open
ON assuming power after his landslide victory in West Pakistan in the 1970 elections, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto introduced five labour welfare laws and brought in amendments in other laws applicable to industrial and commercial establishments. These laws pertained to the education of workers’ children, the constitution of a workers’ welfare fund, cost of living relief, rules on workers’ participation in company profits, and old-age pension for retired employees. In 1972, an amendment to the
Punjab Minister for School Education Rana Sikandar Hayat paid a surprise visit to two schools at Kot Radha Kishan and expressed concern over a lack of basic facilities. The minister has started surprise visits to monitor the government educational institutions and the facilities provided to students. During his visit to the government girls and boys high schools at Kot Radha Kishan, Mr Hayat visited their various sections, besides the ongoing examination process. He expressed
Providing valuable insights into education of students aged between five and 16 years in Sindh, an annual report raises concern over a persistent dip in children’s ‘learning levels’ despite a ‘remarkable’ increase in enrolment rates in 2023. At the launch of the Annual Status of Education Report (Aser) here on 27 March 2024, the participants were informed that learning losses remained persistent from Covid-19 and the 2022 floods as learning levels remained very low and