SWAT: The police on November 4 registered a case against a cleric for allegedly assaulting a seven-year-old boy inside a mosque in the Rahimabad area of Mingora. According to Rahimabad police, the victim’s father filed an FIR, stating that his son was playing outside a mosque when the suspect, Qari Wajid, took him to the mosque in Takhta Band and assaulted him. The complainant stated that when the child screamed, the accused reportedly pulled
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CHINIOT: A school guard has been terminated from service while the head teacher, as well as a teacher, had been given major penalties of seizure of service and increment stoppage, respectively, over a dance party at a girls school. District Education Officer (Elementary/Women) Khadeeja Bukhari has terminated the service of Syed Ijaz Raza, the guard of the Government Model Primary School, Chah Bootianwala, under the Punjab Employees Efficiency, Discipline and Accountability Act 2006. She
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on November 4 said that Sindh had pioneered rights-based legislation in Pakistan and continued to strengthen its implementation through coordinated efforts with government departments and development partners. He said this during a meeting, held at CM House, with a delegation of Punjab parliamentarians organised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). According to a press statement issued by the CM House, the meeting focused on women and
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Forcibly displaced children and other child migrants are at higher risk of harmful practices and protection risks, including violence, family separation, human trafficking, increased child marriage, gender-based violence (GBV), forced labour and psychosocial distress. In Pakistan, where nearly half of UNHCR’s population of concern are children, internally displaced Pakistani children, Afghan child migrants and forcibly displaced children face significant protection risks in urban and peri-urban areas. These risks are compounded in Pakistan by challenges
The Rawalpindi district administration has revised school timings across the city and cantonment areas to help manage traffic flow, affected by the ongoing Kachehri Chowk development work including the construction of an underpass and an overhead bridge. According to a notification issued by Deputy Commissioner Hassan Waqar Cheema, all government and private schools will now begin at 7:45am and close at 12:45pm — one hour earlier than the usual time. The change of timings
BHAKKAR: A man allegedly abducted his friend’s four-year-old daughter over a financial dispute in Bhakkar’s tehsil Kallurkot. Police sources said the suspect, identified as Zaheer Ahmed, kidnapped the minor girl on a motorcycle and fled the scene after an argument with her father regarding money. CCTV footage from the area confirmed the abduction, showing the accused riding away with the child. Despite more than 24 hours passing since the incident, the child’s whereabouts remain
Provides better protection than oral variety Children up to 15 to be immunised as older kids now identified as key to transmission Drive to be extended to other high-risk urban centres, such as Karachi, Hyderabad Police rescue polio team detained at private school ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Health authorities in Punjab on November 3 launched a massive Extended-Age Fractional IPV Campaign, aiming to vaccinate up to 2 million children with an injectable polio vaccine as part of
HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Sindh High Court at Sukkur has ordered an inquiry into substandard medicines for persons with disabilities. The bench directed the Sindh chief secretary and the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPD) to ensure implementation of the relevant Act of 2018 in letter and spirit. He was also asked to explain as to why the Act and its rules framed in 2021 had not been implemented. Comprising Justice Zulfiqar
LAHORE: Police lodged a case against the driver of the overloaded truck, which had overturned on an autorickshaw late on November 2, leaving four members of a family dead, outside the MAO College. The two minor children who were also traveling in the same three-wheeler, however, survived. The tragic incident had moved many passers-by to tears when they saw the parents had covered the kids in order to save their lives. The victims were
TOBA TEK SINGH: Malnutrition is inflicting loss of billions of rupees to the national economy through decreased productivity, higher healthcare costs and lost future earnings due to impaired physical development. Education and awareness about nutrition at the grassroots level will help address the issue at the massive scale for a healthy and prosperous nation. This was stated by Punjab Higher Education Commission Chairperson Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan while addressing a seminar on nutrition in
MANSEHRA: Girls in Upper Kohistan continue to suffer the consequences of government neglect as nearly 60 percent of primary and middle schools remain closed due to a shortage of teachers, absenteeism and administrative failures. “I paid a surprise visit to the office of the district education officer (women) and found her and most of the staff absent from duty,” additional deputy commissioner Khurram Khan Jadoon told reporters on Monday. He said the inspection was