RAWALPINDI: A 13-year-old girl was raped several times and subjected to torture allegedly by her employer in Sadiqabad area, police said. A relative of the victim lodged an FIR with the police saying that since the father of the girl had died and her mother gotten a second marriage, she had been living with her. The complainant said she left the girl with a couple for a salary of Rs6000 per month and providing
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Islamabad: Japan has announced a grant of 2,910 million Japanese Yen for a major child health project in South Punjab, aiming to strengthen treatment services for newborns, infants, and children who need urgent and specialized care. The funding will be used to improve child health care facilities at Children’s Hospital Multan, a public hospital that serves patients from Multan and nearby districts. According to a press release issued by the Embassy of Japan in
The East Sessions Court has summoned arguments from the lawyers of the Mayor of Karachi, the Town Chairman, the Water Board, and the BRT contractor on Friday regarding a plea to register a case over the death of three-year-old Ibrahim, who fell into a manhole near NIPA in Karachi on December 31. The hearing took place before the East Sessions Court concerning the plea to file a case against the Mayor, Town Chairman, Water
KARACHI: A minor boy who was critically injured after allegedly being tortured by a madrassa teacher in Aziz Brohi Goth, Manghopir, has died, police said on Monday. The incident had occurred on November 30 last year. Manghopir police had earlier registered a case for causing injuries and arrested the teacher, who later secured bail. Following the child’s death, police said charges in the case would be amended to include murder and other relevant sections
LAHORE: Punjab Police released Rs 720,000 for the welfare of children of its employees suffering from cerebral palsy. According to a spokesperson, 24 children received assistance of Rs30,000 each. The monthly stipend for each child has been doubled to Rs20,000. The spokesperson said that during the previous year, Rs76.56 million had bren disbursed for special children of police employees, and over the past three years, a cumulative amount exceeding Rs166 million had been provided.
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Saturday declined to grant further physical remand of a suspect and sent him to prison in a case pertaining to the murder of a woman and her three children. After the end of his first five-day physical remand, the investigating officer (IO) again brought suspect Masroor Hussain before the magistrate and sought an extension in his custody for further investigation. The IO, Inspector Mohammad Mehmood, submitted that police have
RAWALPINDI: As temperature dropped significantly in many parts of Punjab, the provincial government extended the winter vacations of public and private educational institutions by one week. Earlier, the schools were to reopen on January 12. According to a notification, in the wake of precarious cold waves and bad weather condition as well as to ensure safety and well-being of students, the government extended the winter vacations of all public and private schools across the
TAXILA: The Attock District Education Authority (DEA) has taken serious notice of a violation of the Punjab government’s winter vacation orders and recommended strict action against a Punjab Education Foundation (PEF)-affiliated school in a village of Hassanabdal that was found operating during the officially announced holidays. According to an official report submitted by the Deputy District Education Officer (Male-Elementary Education), Hassanabdal, an unannounced inspection was carried out on January 8, 2026, at Government Boys
LAHORE: Militants belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliated Ustrana group carried out an attack on a government primary school in the Koh-e-Suleman mountainous region, District Police Officer (DPO) Dera Ghazi Khan Sadiq Baloch confirmed. According to officials, the government girls’ primary school located in Basti Jotar, Union Council Mithwan, Tehsil Taunsa, was destroyed after an explosion. No casualties were reported. Speaking to The News, DPO Sadiq Baloch said that the Ustrana
Rawalpindi: Three allied hospitals in the town have been receiving a significantly higher influx of patients with seasonal flu and respiratory tract infections even after a rain spell while the number of chronic patients being presented with complications is also on the rise. The confirmation of seasonal flu among the native residents confirmed the presence of seasonal flu virus in the environment. A number of patients reported at public and private sector hospitals might
Islamabad: As part of its ongoing efforts to modernise public education, the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), on the directions of Federal Secretary Education Nadeem Mahbub, is accelerating the adoption of educational technology across schools through a range of digital interventions aimed at strengthening teaching practices and improving learning outcomes. A key step in this effort was a comprehensive training session conducted under the EdTech Digital Interventions program, hosted at IMCG (PG) G-10/4. The
LAHORE: The Punjab government established first-ever Nawaz Sharif School of Eminence to introduce a new model of public education reform in the province under public-private partnership to transform neglected government institutions into modern learning centres at tehsil Jalalpur Pirwala of district Multan. The project was launched under the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) which marks a structural shift in public education across the province. The foundation introduced the Nawaz Sharif Schools of Eminence initiative under