HYDERABAD: Market police have lodged a case against a professor of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) Jamshoro and several doctors of Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) Hyderabad under judicial orders passed on an application of Amir Lutuf Zardari about the death of his son Hasnain Zardari (17), who was suffering from dengue, due to the alleged negligence in the hospital. The case was lodged under Section 302 PPC vide crime No. 316/25 on
Child Rights in Focus
SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Unidentified armed men on Oct 29 attacked a government high school in Azam Warsak area of Lower South Waziristan’s Birmal tehsil, looting valuable equipment and damaging the building. Locals said the attackers vandalised classrooms, damaged doors, windows and boundary wall. They said the assailants entered the school early in the morning and took away furniture, electrical equipment and other educational materials. The incident spread panic in the area, while parents expressed deep
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has observed that criminal networks are exploiting children, often through poverty, lack of education or coercion, and that stronger child protection laws and rehabilitation programmes are needed to combat it. A two-judge bench, headed by Justice Omar Sial, also remarked that the state has indeed failed to fulfil its obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and noted that if a child was involved in
KARACHI: A sessions court declined a bail plea of a teacher in a case pertaining to raping a 13-year-old boy on the roof of an academy located in District Central. The suspect had filed an application before Additional District and Session Judge (Central) Mirza Tauseef Ahmed and sought post-arrest bail in the case. After hearing the complainant’s counsel Abida Bibi and the defence side, the court rejected the plea and observed that there are
OVER the past two decades, Pakistan has faced several HIV eruptions and the ignominy of ranking second among nations with the sharpest rise in HIV cases in the Asia-Pacific region. Sadly, not even the scale of the crisis has spurred the government into action. The Sindh health minister has been told about the “extremely alarming” HIV spread, which includes 3,995 registered HIV positive children in the province and over 600,000 fake doctors; 40pc operate
LAHORE: Muslim scholars and researchers from six countries call for setting 18 years as the minimum age for marriage of girls for what they say building a strong Ummah. The scholars from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, and Yemen were brought together at a consultation on ‘Marriage age legislations and Muslim family laws’ jointly organised by the Punjab Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW), the Women Development Department (WDD), Punjab government and Potohar
ISLAMABAD: The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its global partners have called upon governments to recognise public health as the most powerful driver behind climate action since, according to a new report, “continued overreliance on fossil fuels” and failure to “adapt to a heating world” are already having a devastating toll on human health. The report, titled “Countdown on Health and Climate Change” and prepared by the journal Lancet, said 12 of the 20 key
LAKKI MARWAT: Office-bearers of teachers’ bodies have hailed the Peshawar High Court’s decision to stop outsourcing of government-run schools and colleges, saying that the historic court judgment would protect the province’ education system from going into the hands of the private sector. Talking to a group of journalists in Bannu on October 29, Gul Rauf Khan, former senior vice-president of the all teachers association and other leaders, said that it was the prime responsibility
The world treats defence as an existential priority – and rightly so, because lapses in readiness can trigger cascading crises. Climate change now carries the same gravity for vulnerable regions like Pakistan and whole of South Asia. It shuts factories during heatwaves, collapses bridges in flood season, pushes food and energy prices higher and strains public order. It is a traditional security threat because it erodes the very systems that keep a country stable
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on October 28 issued notices to the provincial government, the health department and other relevant authorities to submit replies in a petition regarding the spread of dengue and chikungunya and the lack of preventive measures. During the hearing, Justice Ijaz Anwar remarked that dengue cases had significantly increased this year and directed the government to inform the court about the steps taken to control the situation. The case
LAHORE: A nine-year-old domestic worker was allegedly subjected to brutal physical violence by her employer in Lahore’s Ghaziabad area, leaving her injured and with a broken tooth. Police said the victim, identified as Muqaddas, had been working at the home of a woman named Naheed in Tajpura. The assault allegedly occurred after the child returned to work following a day’s absence without permission. Enraged, Naheed reportedly beat her severely, causing facial injuries and knocking
RAWALPINDI: The efficiency of the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) staff took a harsh turn when a school van, found with an expired annual token, was impounded along with the students inside the vehicle at the Old GTS bus stand in Rawalpindi. Students of grade five and six from a government school were forced to sit inside the van for an hour under the blazing sun. Even citizens’ pleas for mercy were ignored by the