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
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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
PESHAWAR: Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever continues to affect people amid hopes as health experts believe that decline in cases will happen only after rain when temperature will dip below 15 degrees Celsius. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday recorded 45 more dengue cases, taking the overall tally of infections in the current year to 4,836, according to a report released by Integrated Diseases Surveillance and Response System of Public Health Section at Directorate General Health Services. The
Each monsoon in Pakistan heralds less a renewal of life and more a rehearsal for ruin. The 2025 floods, which swept through the vast industrial triangle of Sialkot, Gujrat and Gujranwala and their adjoining areas, were neither the first calamity nor will they be the last. What has lingered long after the waters receded is something less visible yet infinitely heavier: the quiet crisis of the human mind. The flooded fields of Sambrial, a
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection has been detected in eight children, tested at the Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital in Karachi. The hospital officials have blamed the quack doctors, practising illegally, for the infection and demanded of the Sindh Healthcare Commission (SHCC) to take action against such unauthorised medical practitioners. According to hospital sources, the cases emerged at the facility, which operates under the Sindh Employees Social Security Institute. In recent days, eight children,
ISLAMABAD: Participants of a session have agreed that Pakistan’s existing curriculum faces serious structural and pedagogical gaps. The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) and the Pakistan Institute of Education (PIE) convened a brainstorming session to deliberate on one of Pakistan’s most pressing educational challenges — the urgent need to reform the national curriculum to make it more inclusive, coherent, and relevant to learners’ needs, says a press release. It said the session, attended
BAHAWALPUR: The Shah Shammas police station of Multan on November 2 claimed to have foiled an attempt to sell a minor girl to the Katcha dacoits and arrested two alleged abductors, including a woman. According to the police, one Abdul Rehman complained to the police that his neighbours Ali and his mother Samina Bibi allegedly abducted his 12-year old daughter Mehnaz Bibi and stole his motorcycle. Police claimed that after registration of the abduction