PESHAWAR: All Primary Teachers Association (APTA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa president Azizullah Khan has urged the provincial government to complete the regularisation of 14,000 teachers at the earliest and implement its decision to upgrade primary school teachers. Talking to reporters here on Friday, he said a separate directorate for primary education was also needed to improve administration and address the issues confronting 27,626 schools, 5.65 million students and 96,990 primary teachers across the province. Mr Khan
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PAKISTAN’S students do not need voluminous textbooks especially in the early stages; they need better learning. The Punjab government’s decision to revise the curriculum from pre-primary to Grade 5, reduce textbook volume by 25pc, and shift students away from rote learning is therefore a welcome step. The current education system has confused the amount of content covered with learning. Crowded textbooks and examination practices have compelled children to memorise the text rather than understand
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Thursday approved a new curriculum from Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) to Grade 5 for implementation from the academic year 2027, with the authorities claiming that the revised syllabus would reduce the burden of textbooks and shift students away from rote learning. The approval was given at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, which reviewed the curricula for English, Mathematics, Social Studies, Urdu and ECCE. According
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police on Sep 21 arrested a man in less than two hours for allegedly subjecting a three-year-old girl to abuse before killing her in the jurisdiction of Noon Police Station. An official said Noon police immediately registered a case and launched an investigation after receiving information about the disappearance of three-year-old Sakina. Islamabad DIG Ali Waseem constituted police teams under the supervision of Industrial Area Zone SP Dr Ayaz
HARIPUR: A juvenile court here on Sep 23 rejected the bail petitions of three minors arrested on charges of kidnapping and killing a four-and-a-half-year-old girl. The three accused were also named in the charge-sheet submitted by the police investigation wing, which placed their names in column No. 2 under Section 173 of the CrPC, declaring them innocent. Police and counsel for the accused, Raja Yasir Kiyani, told Dawn that the court heard arguments from
ISLAMABAD: A three-year-old girl who was kidnapped on Sep 22 was found murdered in a wooded area, located about one-and-a-half kilometres from a police station, on Wednesday, police said. It was also suspected that the girl had been raped before her murder based on the physical condition of her body. According to the FIR registered over the incident, the girl went missing on Tuesday afternoon at around 2pm, while police registered a kidnapping report
ISLAMABAD: Zara Shah was targeted by a stranger while playing a computer game, drawn into a conversation that would expose her to terrifying online sexual exploitation. Zara, whose name has been changed by AFP for safety reasons, is one of an estimated 1.5 million children in Pakistan who experienced online sexual abuse in one year, according to a report published by the UN children’s agency this month. “We started chatting while playing an online
PAKISTAN enters its latest polio campaign in a better position than it did a year ago. Only four cases have been reported so far in 2026, compared with 31 last year. That is real progress, but it would be a mistake to read too much into the decline. As vaccinators move through 115 high-risk districts to reach more than 31m children, the real test is whether they can get to those who are repeatedly
RAWALPINDI: The District Education Authority (DEA) has issued show-cause notices to teachers and principals of 160 schools where pass percentage in the 9th class exam remained around 20 per cent and launched departmental action against 40 schools with zero result. In the 9th class exam conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Rawalpindi, 63 per cent students failed and only 37 per cent of students managed to pass. According to the results,
PESHAWAR: Almost every second student failed to qualify the annual intermediate examination conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Peshawar as results were declared on Monday. A total of 66,735 students appeared in Part-II of the examination and 35,103 of them qualified it as the pass percentage stood at 52. Similarly, 63,605 students had appeared in Part-I of the examination and 31,169 of them remained successful while 51 per cent of
KARACHI: While investigators said they have so far found no evidence to suggest that the death of five members of a family in an Ahsanabad apartment was a homicide, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Javed Alam Odho has decided to establish a high-powered body to investigate the incident that has sent shock waves through the city. The couple, identified as Dr Umer, 45, and Mehwish, 35, their daughter Zainab, 10, and two other minor daughters were
SWABI: The alleged abduction of two teenage sisters sparked protest in Yar Hussain village of Razaar tehsil here on Sep 20. Protesting people said that the two girls were on their way to a local religious seminary when they were allegedly kidnapped by unidentified persons. The news spread rapidly in the region and went viral on social media. Announcements were made on loudspeakers while calling on the people to reach for protest. The locals