MOHMAND: More than 119,000 children, including 73,000 girls, remained out-of-school in Mohmand tribal district, prompting the education department to intensify its enrollment campaign aimed at bringing every school-age child into classrooms. Mohmand district education officer (DEO) Midrarullah disclosed the figures while addressing a one-day capacity-building workshop for teachers at the Government Higher Secondary School Ghalanai on Tuesday. “Even a single child left out of the education system can have far-reaching consequences for society,” he
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KARACHI: An eight-year-old boy has recently died of rabies at the Badin campus of Indus Hospital, officially known as Dr Sikandar Ali Mandhro Civil Hospital, raising the total recorded deaths from the deadly infectious disease to 19, it emerged on July 28. An informed source said it’s the first rabies case at the facility. A total of 17 cases have so far been reported this year at two key tertiary care hospitals; 11 at
• Pakistan claims virus eradication is within reach as cases have dropped sharply • Informs Independent Monitoring Board that virus footprint is narrowing, but concentrated in most difficult geographies now ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has told the global Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) that the country has entered a decisive phase in its decades-long fight against polio, claiming the virus has been pushed into a shrinking number of high-risk areas, while cautioning that persistent insecurity in southern
All those who used to attend school before 2020 can relate to many things. Covid-19 was a major disruptor that entirely changed the routine and productivity of human life. When I was doing my matriculation in a government school, we used to attend a daily strict exercise and prayer routine during the early hours of school. These were wonderful routines for children to understand and accept that health through exercise is a fundamental right
TOBA TEK SINGH: A man has been arrested on July 26 for allegedly killing his 17-year-old cousin over rejecting his marriage proposal in the Barkhordar village of Nankana Sahib district. Police claimed Sadia Bibi was allegedly shot dead by her cousin Javed Iqbal after a dispute over rejecting his marriage proposal. Police claimed to have arrested the accused and a case had been registered against him by the Baraghar Police on the complaint of
A FEW days after I helped prevent the marriage, my phone rang. It was Sumaiya, or Dadli, as she is more commonly known. I have known her since she was very little. She is shy and soft-spoken, the kind of girl who quietly laughs with her cousins and loves carrying babies. That day, however, I barely recognised her voice. She was almost inaudible, her words tumbling out in fear. A man had come to
TOBA TEK SINGH: A man allegedly gave poison to his three minor daughters and also took his own life after a quarrel with his family over monetary issues in Faisalabad on Thursday night. As per reports, the man died while his daughters were shifted to the hospital. The deceased was identified as Azhar Ali (35), a resident of Gulshan Rahim Town, and his daughters as Dua Zahra (12), Areej (9) and Eshal Fatima (6).
KARACHI: Expressing concern over growing numbers of maternal deaths associated with Caesarean sections (C-sections), Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho at a summit held on Friday noted that the government was taking urgent measures to address this issue, while suggesting that tubal ligation should be strongly considered after a third C-section to help reduce maternal health risks. She was speaking as the chief guest at the inaugural session of the 4th International Family Planning
RAWALPINDI: A nurse was booked by police for mistakenly chopping off the thumb of a newborn baby girl in the nursery ward of Rawalpindi Holy Family Hospital. Police investigating the incident said efforts were underway to trace and investigate the accused nurse, who had not been available so far. They said the exact circumstances in which the child’s thumb was cut off would be known after the investigation. Qasir Mehmood, the father of the
BAHAWALPUR: The Dunyapur City Police claimed on July 23 to have arrested five alleged rapists for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy by blackmailing him through a video shot. According to a Lodhran Police spokesperson, the prime rapist ‘S’ allegedly lured the victim ‘A’ to his cousin’s house in Fazal Colony and raped him after drugging him. He also recorded a video of the incident. Later, the spokesperson claimed the accused showed this video to
CHAKWAL: A man shot himself dead after murdering a minor boy and injuring his mother who also expired at a hospital in Rawalpindi, police said on July 23. The incident occurred in Pidh village of tehsil Choa Saidan Shah on Wednesday night. The alleged killer was identified as Attaullah, a resident of Khairpur city of Sindh. According to the police, the daughter of the deceased woman, who is a Tiktoker, contracted her second marriage
A seven-year-old boy died after falling into an open manhole in Moach Goth’s Noor Shah area, triggering protests by the victim’s family and other locals, and causing major disruption to traffic on Hub River Road and the Northern Bypass. The child was identified as Jahangir. According to initial information, the boy accidentally fell into an open manhole. Rescue personnel and the locals retrieved his body from the manhole and took it to a nearby