ISLAMABAD. The police arrested 3 suspects for killing, raping, and dumping the body of a 13-year-old boy in a water tank on March 11. According to the police, the suspects had kidnapped Dilshad within the limits of Lohibher Police Station. Police had registered a case on the complaint of the victim’s parents and launched an investigation. During the investigation, the suspects confessed to their crimes. The suspects were drug addicts said the police. Adding
Child Rights in Focus
Despite improvements in education and awareness of rights, the tribal court system continues to mete out injustice across the country. The latest example of ‘elders’ proving that age does not always bring wisdom occurred in the rural Bhagwani Shumali area of Dera Ismail Khan in K-P. A local man committed suicide after a panchayat ordered him to marry off his 11-year-old daughter over the “insult” caused by one of the man’s nephews having the
CM Maryam wants educational institutions of eminence in every tehsil LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has decided to introduce the CM Education Card for school education in Punjab. Students who score more than 80 percent will get a CM Eminence Star Card. The chief minister was presiding over a meeting in which she was informed that the number of students has increased by 52 percent and teachers by 89% due to the
LAHORE: A 17-year-old girl was shot dead by her uncle in Chung’s Gopay Rai village. According to officials, the suspect opened fire on his niece, Samaha, early in the morning before fleeing the scene. The victim suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Upon receiving information, police shifted the body to a morgue for post-mortem via an Edhi ambulance and launched an investigation. Initial findings suggest that the suspect had an argument with
PESHAWAR: The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is set to send the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2019 to the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) for review. K-P Minister for Law Aftab Alam, an advocate, stated this on March 11 during a meeting of the Provincial Standing Committee regarding the draft of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2019. Provincial Minister for Social Welfare and Women Development Syed Qasim Ali Shah, Advocate
As the climate crisis continues, children are increasingly exposed to illiteracy, child labour and early marriages LAHORE: Following the devastation caused by the heavy rains and catastrophic flooding in 2022, many people rallied to provide humanitarian aid through food, clothing and medicine for the affected families. However, no amount of aid could restore the futures of innocent children whose lives were upended. Muhammad Arsalan, a 12-year-old boy, was found working at a shop in
KARACHI: A local study recently published in an international journal highlights how community-driven incentives in rural areas can significantly increase breastfeeding, immunisation, and oral rehydration rates — three critical factors directly linked to child mortality in Pakistan. Published in The Lancet Global Health, the study was conducted by researchers from Aga Khan University’s Institute for Global Health and Development (IGHD). It presents a transformative model for addressing preventable illnesses such as childhood diarrhea and
LAKKI MARWAT: A girl and her mother allegedly died by suicide inside their house in Asgharkhel area of Lakki Marwat district on 9th March, the police said. They said the incident occurred in the limits of Shahbazkhel police station. They said the bodies were transported to the District Headquarters Hospital to complete medico-legal formalities. Mohammad Nawaz, 48, told police in his preliminary report that he was ploughing his fields with a tractor when he
BAHAWALNAGAR: District police booked a landlord and his five accomplices on the charge of raping his minor maid and aborting her child in connivance with two midwives when she got pregnant. The FIR registered with Mandi Sadiq Ganj police on March 7 stated that a landlord of village Matwala, along with his employee, raped his 14-year-old maid, who was an orphan, on different occasions until she got pregnant. After the pregnancy, they asked her
SOMEONE recently reminded me we don’t need great resources for teaching. A good teacher can teach under a tree. While this may have been true in another time, contemporary demands of technological integration in learning necessitate the development of infrastructure and a set of skills for the 21st century. The sad fact is, in most schools and higher education institutions, we clearly do not have the foundations laid for the transformation we are witnessing
TAXILA: Police in Attock have rescued a 12-year-old girl from Khagwani village in Hazro Town after raiding a wedding ceremony. The girl was reportedly sold for Rs50,000 by her stepfather to the 60-year-old bridegroom, a TB patient and a donkey cart driver by profession. Police booked nine persons including the bride’s stepfather, mother, village numbardar, the bridegroom and his siblings as well as a nikah register. According to the police, a man named Tayyab
TOBA TEK SINGH: A young boy was arrested by Chuttiana police on 8th March for allegedly raping a six-year-old girl in Chak 301-GB. According to the FIR registered under section 376 of the PPC, the complainant stated that the suspect lured her daughter to an orchard outside the village, where he raped her. Upon hearing the child’s cries, neighbouring farmers rushed to the scene, but the suspect fled. The rape survivor was shifted to