CHILDREN constitute around 45 percent of the Pakistani population, with 22.7pc adolescents from 10 to 19 years. Along with their educational, safety
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Madressah reform continues to be a major challenge. Since the state is not in a position to outrightly ban madressahs and immediately
IN 2019, when I was teaching full time, our institute collaborated with a university in Canada in their Global Reporting Programme where
THE campaign to eradicate polio from Pakistan cannot succeed unless the safety of vaccinators and security personnel on the front lines of
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PESHAWAR: The district administration here on 22 December 2024 issued a directive making polio vaccination certificates mandatory for obtaining official documents, including birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates, in the city’s seven tehsils. According to a notification, applicants must provide a confirmation certificate from the District Health Office (DHO) verifying that polio drops had been administered to their children. The village and neighbourhood councils are barred from issuing certificates without obtaining a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the DHO. “This step
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HYDERABAD: In an unspeakably horrific manifestation of human barbarity, an anger provoked mother allegedly took the lives of her twin sons, aged
ISLAMABAD: The total number of registered religious madrassas across the country is 17,738, with 2,249,520 students enrolled, stated the Ministry of Education
DI KHAN: Condemning government statements claiming a plentiful supply of essential goods as “misleading”, educational institutions in the volatile tribal district of
Lahore: On 19 December, a Punjab cabinet meeting was presided over by Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz. The cabinet approved an amendment to
The eagerly-anticipated anti-polio campaign in Balochistan, now set to commence on December 30, has faced repeated delays due to a boycott by
LONDON: A UK court on Tuesday handed life sentences to the father and stepmother of a murdered 10-year-old British-Pakistani girl who died
KARACHI: Pakistan’s first genetic molecular laboratory has been inaugurated with the cooperation of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA),
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Police have arrested the suspects involved in the sexual assault of a minor boy at gunpoint in the Lakki
