WHEN a country’s children go hungry, its future withers. In Pakistan, where over 40pc of children under five are stunted, nearly 18pc are wasted, and more than half suffer from anaemia, malnutrition threatens to undermine a generation. For a middle-income country with nuclear capabilities and significant agricultural output, such statistics are appalling. Yet amid this troubling landscape, there are glimmers of hope. Recent data from Sindh shows some progress. Infant mortality rates in the
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RAWALPINDI: The body of a four-year-old boy, who went missing about two months ago in Rawat, was recovered from a pond close to the house where he had gone along with her mother and two siblings to attend a wedding ceremony. The mother, who also had a baby girl and a son younger than the missing boy, did not leave the house for two weeks in the hope that she would be reunited with
Islamabad: Samia, a 32-year-old mother of two from Islamabad, was thrust into an uncertain future when her husband, a 38-year-old property dealer, succumbed to a sudden heart attack. Her two children, aged six and four, now face life without their father. Tragically, Samia’s story is not unique in her locality. Three other young widows with children are also grappling with the untimely loss of their husbands due to heart attacks before the age of
BATTAGRAM: The provincial government has announced a major initiative to address the longstanding issue of teacher shortage in public sector schools. MPA Taj Mohammad Khan, chairman of the standing committee for education, said on January 19 that the government would soon recruit 16,000 fresh teachers to fill the vacancies in schools across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “This significant move is aimed at providing quality education to students and equipping government schools with necessary facilities,” he said.
Juvenile justice system addresses the needs of children which are in conflict with law. It provides child-friendly procedures and diversion instead of formal/hard judicial proceedings. It focuses on rehabilitation and reintegration of juvenile offenders into society. The specific mechanisms for administering juvenile justice have varied over time among societies. However, the concept of delinquency, as well as special trials and institutions for youth, was established in the mid-19th century in Great Britain. Juvenile Justice System Act,
CHARSADDA: Students, their parents, political activists, and councillors staged a demonstration against the lack of teachers at a government girls’ primary school in Tangi tehsil here the other day. The protesters set a 15-day deadline for the appointment of teachers to the school in Sahibzada Kallay area of Gundheri union council or they would lock it up. The protesters said that the school had been without a teacher for the last one year. They
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department intends to form a combined board of governors to manage the Khyber Institute of Child Health Peshawar and the recently established Fountain House Hayatabad (Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences Hospital), expediting the operations of both entities. However, the KICH and Fountain House want separate boards for themselves, citing their distinct specialties–children’s health and psychiatry the reason. Officials told Dawn that the health department had directed the project director of the
• Injuries, particularly around the neck, suggest the death was not accidental, opines police surgeon • DIG says it’s too early to call it a homicide • Efforts on to find two boys ‘kidnapped’ from Garden KARACHI: A seven-year-old boy, who had been missing from North Karachi since Jan 7, was found dead in the underground water tank of the residential apartment where he lived, police said on 18th January. While the police are
Sindh is setting a new example in the country by initiating a revolutionary change for the transgender community in the field of education. The chief minister of Sindh has directed the education department to develop the province’s first-ever transgender education policy. According to Sindh government spokesperson Sukhdev Assardas Hemnani, Sindh is the only province that is not only serious about transgender education but is also actively working on formulating a new policy for it.
LALAMUSA: A grim chapter in the Khohaar tragedy concluded when the alleged rapist and murderer of a five-year-old girl was killed in a police encounter near Bole Bridge, Civil Lines Police Station limits, on 17 January 2025. The suspect, Muhammad Nadeem, a gardener employed at a college in Rasul, had previously escaped police custody. The heartbreaking incident sent shockwaves across the community after the child, the daughter of an expatriate ‘J,’ was found dead
JHANG: A number of male and female teachers serving at afternoon schools are awaiting their monthly salaries for the last seven months. The education officials allegedly showed laxity in the affairs of afternoon schools where a large number of students were enrolled. The official sources revealed that teachers had been waiting to get their monthly salaries for seven months. The educated youngsters, especially females, alleged that because of this temporary teaching job, they had
KARACHI: Family members of two children, who were kidnapped from the Garden area three days ago, staged a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on 17th January and also met with Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori for the safe recovery of the minor boys as police have failed to make any progress in the case so far. On Jan 14, five-year-old Aliyan and six-year-old Ali Raza were playing outside their homes on Siddique