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
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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
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
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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