KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on November 6 launched the Student Attendance Monitoring and Redress System (SAMRS), describing it as a “pioneering, transformative, and nationally replicable model” that puts technology and evidence-based planning at the core of education reform. Speaking at the provincial launch ceremony held at a local hotel, the chief minister said SAMRS marked the first time that Sindh—or any province in Pakistan—had introduced an integrated digital platform linking
Child Rights in Focus
In Pakistan, more than 2 million children frequently attend madrasas that offer free religious education to the most disadvantaged. But behind the walls of these revered institutions lies a chilling reality: thousands of children are subjected to sexual violence in deafening silence. Our correspondents bring us a special 31-minute investigation. Warning: viewers may find this report disturbing.
LAHORE: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Health Dr Asif Khan has urged the parents not to pay heed to misinformation and rumours regarding polio vaccination. He emphasised that the fractional Inactivated Polio Vaccine (fIPV) being administered to children aged four months to 15 years in 122 union councils of Lahore is a booster dose aimed at strengthening immunity in response to the continued circulation of the virus. Speaking to the media, Dr Asif highlighted that
BHAKKAR: Police rescued a four-year-old girl who had been kidnapped from Kalurkot and taken to Lakki Marwat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. District Police Officer (DPO) Shehzad Rafiq Awan handed over the recovered child, identified as Safeena Zainab, to her parents in an emotional reunion on November 5. Police said the child’s abduction had sparked widespread concern in the local community. Under the direct supervision of DPO Shehzad Rafiq Awan, multiple police teams were formed
KHYBER: A long delay by the education department in addressing the shortage of female teachers in public schools is hampering enrolment of out-of-school girl students in the Khyber tribal district. Official sources in Bara and Landi Kotal said that at present, only one female teacher was available for over 100 girl students in a school, with primary schools for girls also facing classroom shortages. They added that those issues were the major reasons for
LAKKI MARWAT: A government girls high school was reopened in the Dallokhel area here the other day after eight years of closure. A ceremony to this effect was attended among others by deputy commissioner Hamidullh Khan, district police officer Nazir Khan, district education officer Nargis Jabeen, teachers, students and their parents. The district administration and elementary and secondary education department officials cut the ribbon and cake to formally open the school. Officials said a
BAHAWALPUR: The Vehari Gaggo police claimed to have arrested a teacher of a private school for allegedly torturing his student and his father. According to police sources, Muhammad Subhan, an eighth-class student of a private school village of Adda Shah Junaid near Gaggo city, had complained to his father that his teacher, Javed Latif, tortured him with a club. Police said that on this, the father went to the school and filed a complaint.
BAHAWALPUR: Sheikh Fazil police in Burewala tehsil on November 5 booked a seminary teacher and his accomplice for the alleged rape of a minor girl student at village No 433/ EB. According to the police spokesman, Sheikh Fazil police on the complaint of victim’s father ‘I’, registered a first information report under sections 377, 324 and 292-A of PPC against cleric ‘A’ and his accomplice ‘T’. As per the FIR, the complainant alleged that
PESHAWAR: Minister for Education Arshad Ayub Khan on November 4 said that the powers of education boards and the examination system would remain entirely under the jurisdiction of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “No decision will be made that could adversely affect the public or students,” he assured while presiding over a review meeting of the Education Department. The meeting was attended by Secretary Education Muhammad Khalid Khan, Special Secretaries Abdul Basit and Masood Khan, and other
Rawalpindi: A significantly heavy rainfall on November 4, along with a considerably heavy hailstorm, would turn the weather chilly in this region of the country, including the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi and the adjoining hilly areas that may cause health threats, mainly mild to moderate for healthy persons but severe complications in cases of chronic patients. It is important that the hailstorm hints towards the setting in of winter in this region
KARACHI: The dengue situation in Sindh has further worsened as four more people, including a 16-month-old child, died from the virus during the past 24 hours, taking the year’s provincial dengue death toll to 20, officials said on November 4. According to an abstract report issued by the Directorate General Health Services Sindh, the latest victims include a 12-year-old boy from Baldia Town, who passed away at Dr Ruth KM Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi,
KARACHI: A surge in HIV cases among children in Pathan Colony has pushed Sindh’s health authorities to seek the immediate establishment of an ART (antiretroviral therapy) centre at the Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital after 18 children were confirmed HIV-positive and two of them died, officials said on November 4. Infectious diseases experts and critics said the Directorate of CDC for HIV/AIDS has once again reacted only after an outbreak instead of preventing it, exposing