Status of Ratification of International Treaties Dealing with Issues of Children by Pakistan
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Ratification of International Treaties on Child Rights
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No Sanctuary for Abuse
A place of learning should never become a place of fear. Yet another child has paid with his life for the unchecked culture of violence that continues to exist at places meant to educate. Fourteen-year-old Ali Haider, who had been sent to a madrassa, allegedly died from a brutal beating…
Three Minor Boys Raped
SARGODHA: Three minor boys were raped in the Sargodha district during the last two days. A 14-year-old boy who was subjected to rape and the suspect tried to bury him alive in a pit in connivance with his two brothers at village Marri. However, the farm workers nearby pulled out…
Seminary Student Dies Of Torture In Lahore
LAHORE: A seminary student from Bahawalnagar succumbed to injuries after he was subjected to physical abuse at a madrassa in Lahore Cantonment area on June 27. According to police, Ali Haider (14)’s torture was not reported to police. His parents took him to their native town in Bahawalnagar and continued…
Two Held In Swat Over Assault, Murder Of Teenage Girl
SWAT: The Swat police arrested two suspects on charges of sexually assaulting and killing a teenage girl who had gone missing from her home town Abbottabad some three days ago. Police registered an FIR under multiple sections of the Pakistan Penal Code after the 17-year-old girl died at Saidu Teaching…
Release Of Rs2.1bn For Children Hospital Lauded
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Pediatric Association Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has warmly welcomed the release of Rs2.1b by the provincial government for early operationalisation of the Children’s Hospital attached to the Khyber Institute of Child Health (KICH), Peshawar. The association expressed profound gratitude to the chief minister, Muhammad Sohail Afridi, health minister Khaliqur Rehman…