KARACHI: Federal Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal said on 13-April-2025 that there is no valid justification to refuse polio drops to eligible children in Pakistan, especially when the Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan is supervising a door-to-door anti-polio immunisation drive. The minister disclosed that 85,000 people in Pakistan refused polio vaccination for their children, including 34,000 in Karachi. Of these, 27,000 refusals were reported in Karachi’s District East alone. He was talking to media
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Lack of textbooks, trained teachers and proper labs cited as the cause Rawalpindi. In the new academic session 2025-27, the number of academic groups offered for Matric (9th and 10th grade) has been increased from three to six. However, a lack of preparedness for the newly introduced groups has caused serious delays in education for thousands of students enrolled in them. The new groups Agricultural Science, Fashion Designing, and Health Science, were introduced without
A road traffic accident (RTA) in Baldia Town claimed the life of a four-year-old boy on 12-April-2025, while a motorcyclist injured in a hit-and-run incident near the Golimar pedestrian bridge a day earlier breathed his last during treatment. In Baldia’s Abidabad area a speeding water tanker ran over four-year-old Affan Jasim, who was returning home after playing at a nearby ground. The boy died on the spot. The body was taken to Dr Ruth
ISLAMABAD: City managers have decided to set up the first ever adventure park in Islamabad. The decision was made in a meeting, which was chaired by Secretary Interior Mohammad Khurram Agha and attended by CDA Chairman Mohammad Ali Randhawa, the member environment and other relevant senior officers. The meeting discussed the establishment of an Adventure City Park at an appropriate place in Islamabad. This will be one of the best tourist places in the
KOHAT: Two children were killed while as many sustained serious pellet and shrapnel injuries when a hand grenade they were playing with exploded with a bang in Sheikhan area here. An official of the Saddar police station told Dawn on Friday that the children were playing with a hand grenade in an empty plot when it exploded. Nadeem Shah of Mohallah Murtazakhel reported to the police that Suleman, 11, and Mohammad Qasim, 12, died
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Cabinet has approved a supplementary grant Rs1 billion for the scheme “Provision of Free Textbooks and School Bags in Merged Districts” and directed the preparation of a comprehensive plan in this regard. A marathon meeting of the cabinet was held on April 10, presided over by Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur. The cabinet also approved the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (Cultivation, Extraction, Refining, Manufacturing and sale of Derivatives of Cannabis Plants for Medicinal
Mithi. In a disturbing incident at an examination center in Dano Dandhal High School, Nagarparkar, a teacher was slapped by an individual for preventing cheating during matriculation exams. The case came to light after the session judge of Tharparkar took notice of the incident and ordered legal action. According to details, the incident occurred when accused Manzoor Junejo slapped on-duty teacher Vinod Kumar for not allowing his brother to cheat during the examination. Initially,
Lahore. Around 44,000 posts of government schoolteachers across Punjab have been abolished. According to sources in the Punjab School Education Department, outsourcing of schools is the reason of abolishing the posts as now it is up to the private owners to hire teaches according to their policy. On the other hand, teachers say such a decision would result in increasing unemployment among youth in the province. The sources said the department had decided to
Mandi Bahhaudin. Rs3 million ransom recovered, woman among two suspects arrested A five-year-old boy abducted from the jurisdiction of Miana Gondal police station has been recovered in a police operation, which also resulted in the death of one kidnapper and the arrest of two others, including a woman accused of aiding the crime. Police sources said the child, Abdullah, went missing on April 6 after leaving home at around 11:00am and failing to return.
ISLAMABAD: A total of 11,074 cases of murder, 2,142 cases of gang rape, 4,472 cases of Zina and 34,688 cases of kidnappings/abductions took place countrywide in 2024, reveals officially reported crime statistics available with The News. Punjab reported the highest number of cases of murder, gang rape, attempt to murder, Zina, kidnapping/abduction and cases of hurt across Pakistan in year 2024. More importantly, the reported cases of gang rapes — in the past whole
TOBA TEK SINGH: A private school owner allegedly raped a daughter of a widow at Kamalia on 10-April-2025. Reportedly, Siddiqan Bibi of Jhonnayshah Wala claimed in her FIR that her daughter was a sweeper in the school of accused Muhammad Rehan situated at Madinabad. On the day of the incident, the accused allegedly raped the girl. The police have arrested the accused. Published in News Daily on 11-April-2025.
TECHNICAL and vocational education and training (TVET) is a tough market to untangle. No wonder we are still struggling with it. But given where we are as an economy, we cannot afford to dillydally for long. We currently provide technical training to very few young people in our country. This is not only true of skills that are used in manufacturing or construction, it is also true of skills in service delivery (sometimes called