LALAMUSA: Rehmania police recovered a seven-year-old child, who was kidnapped for ransom, and arrested two kidnappers. On March 12, during Iftar, the police received an emergency call reporting the abduction of seven-year-old Burhan Akhtar from New Model Town. Upon reviewing CCTV footage, the police discovered that two unidentified motorcyclists had taken the child. The footage of the abduction soon went viral on social media, further intensifying public concern. Later that night, the victim’s family
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Islamabad: The Senate’s Anti-Rape Special Committee on 14-March-2025 agreed to strengthen the police’s role in enforcing the sex offenders register initiative and broaden the legal framework to better manage and monitor sex offenders in the country. The committee members, including chairperson Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq, who met at the law and justice ministry here, believed that the expansion of the police’s role would involve utilising the capabilities of various agencies, based on thorough risk
BAHAWALNAGAR: Additional District and Sessions Judge Sarfraz Ahmad sentenced a resident of Koryan Wali village to double life imprisonment on 14th March for raping his daughters. A case was registered against him on Feb 2, 2024. According to the FIR lodged at Saddar police station by the rape survivors’ mother, the couple had four daughters and two sons. The FIR stated that their 15-year-old and 13-year-old daughters had been visibly anxious for a long
CHINIOT: Two rapists of minor children were awarded life term on 14th March in separate cases in the district. Additional and District Sessions Judge Javed Iqbal has awarded life imprisonment to one Iftikhar Ilyas Mahnga and imposed Rs100,000 fine on him for kidnapping and raping a minor girl about a year ago. City police had registered the case. In Bhowana, Additional and District Session Judge Samina Ijaz Cheema awarded life imprisonment and Rs300,000 fine
LOWER DIR: The elders of Nagri Bala village of Talash on 13th March said that the local primary school for girls was short of teachers. Talking to journalists in Timergara, the elders including Shakirullah, Ghaniur Rehman, Iqbal Hussain and Shah Khalid urged provincial minister for education, director of education depart and deputy commissioner of Lower Dir to take notice of the issue of teachers’ shortage at Nagri Bala primary school for girls and resolve
MANSEHRA: Police claimed to have arrested a schoolteacher here for harassing and blackmailing female students. “A blackmail victim’s brother approached the police with objectionable video clips made by the teacher in a classroom of the Government High School Chandor, so I formed an investigation team headed by the senior superintendent of police that led to the teacher’s arrest,” DPO Shafiullah Khan Gandapur told reporters here on March 13. He quoted the complainant as claiming
KHYBER: Communication and Works department handed over 12 newly-built primary schools to the education department in Bara. The schools, destroyed by terrorists, were reconstructed with the financial assistance of China Aid. Officials in education department told this scribe that the 12 new schools included six each for boys and girls while two more such schools would be handed over to them very soon. Consisting of a sprawling five-classroom building, the new schools also have
A joint operation by the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC), and federal intelligence agencies successfully rescued a kidnapped youth from Balochistan and led to the arrest of three abductors. The targeted operation, based on technical data analysis, was conducted in the Winder area of Hub on the night between 12& 13 March by personnel of the Sindh CPLC, AVCC/CIA and a federal law enforcement agency, with the assistance of Hub police.
GILGIT: The quality of vaccines provided by the Unicef to the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Health Department has been at risk since the dedicated power line for the Provincial EPI (Expanded Program on Immunization) store was disconnected two years ago. The situation has been worsened by load-shedding and non-utilization of essential equipment donated by the WHO and the Unicef. This alarming issue was highlighted by WHO representative in GB Abdullah Durrani during a meeting chaired by
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s ‘School meal program’ has helped reduce malnutrition among students. In its first phase, the program saved Rs1.780 billion while impacting the health and well-being of thousands of children. The program has also witnessed remarkable success in boosting school enrolment. Within months of its initiation, over 55,000 new students enrolled in schools, demonstrating the program’s positive effect on student attendance and engagement. In addition, the initiative provided 40 million
ISLAMABAD: Prolonged exposure to high temperatures and extreme precipitation for the last one and a half decades is worsening malnutrition among children under the age of two in Pakistan, leading to increased stunting and wasting, a recent study revealed. Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the research highlights that each one-degree Celsius rise is linked to a significant decline in a child’s length-for-age z-score (LAZ). Increased precipitation also negatively impacted growth indicators,
PESHAWAR: Badhber police arrested a cleric on charges of assaulting two minors in Telaband area on the outskirts of the provincial capital on 12th March. Father of one of the minors told Badhber police that his nine-year-old daughter and 11-year-old nephew were enrolled in a seminary in Telaband area. He got registered an FIR, stating that on March 3, the children informed them that the prayer leader had assaulted them multiple times four days