Tag: Child

Islamabad police establishes women and child protection centre

ISLAMABAD: Police have established women and child protection centre here at women police station to check incidents of violence against them. Islamabad Inspector General of...

Four new laws being enacted to curb child labour

  ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration is in process of codifying four new labour laws to eliminate child labour from workshops, small roadside hotels...

BISP to launch child protection campaign tomorrow

  ISLAMABAD: Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is launching ‘BISP Child Protection Campaign’ on Saturday at its headquarters and 40 other district and tehsil offices...

Russian priest charged over child molesting for 14 years prison

ST PETERSBURG: The Priozersky City Court in Russia’s Leningrad region has sentenced priest Gleb Grozovsky to 14 years in a high-security penal colony for...

Child died after falling into manhole in Gujranwala

GUJRANWALA: A minor child died after he fell into an open manhole outside his residence on Sunday. According to details, a three-year-old child was playing...

Child kidnaped in Faisalabad

FAISALABAD: Unidentified kidnappers abducted a child outside his residence in Faisalabad on Sunday. Police said that four-year-old child was playing outside his residence in D-Type...

Protests erupt as 10-year-old-boy goes missing in Karachi

KARACHI: A group of protestors took to the streets near Karachi’s Sadar area on Friday night after a 10-year-old-boy went missing from the area. The...

Boy taken to CMH after asking for COAS’ help with heart...

LAHORE: A 14-year-old boy on Saturday was taken to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) after he posted a short video requesting the army chief...

Police recover kidnapped child

PESHAWAR:  A nine-month-old infant who was kidnapped by house servants from the Hayatabad area was recovered by the Police. The accused couple was arrested...

Three injured in Islamabad gas leakage blast

ISLAMABAD: Three members of a family were injured in a gas leakage linked explosion here on Monday. Rescue sources said that due to the leakage of...

MCHIP holds closing ceremony, celebrates achievements

HYDERABAD: USAID's flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), led by Jhpiego, organised a meeting at Tando Allahyar to mark the end of MCHIP’s...

Minister takes notice of minor girl’s murder in Faislabad

LAHORE: Provincial Minister of Human Rights Minority Affairs, Khalil Tahir Sandhu, has taken notice of the murder of a six-year-old girl in Faisalabad. According to a handout...

Nearly 250 million children at risk due to stunting, poverty

  Nearly 250 million children in developing countries are at a risk of poor development due to stunting and poverty. The startling revelations made in a...

Court hands police official life sentence for raping daughter

    A sessions court in Islamabad charged a police official with raping his daughter, handing him a life sentence and fining him Rs100,000 for the...

Every child in Punjab to be enrolled in school by 2018:...

Punjab CM says education only way to cope with poverty, unemployment, ignorance Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the target of rapid development...

10 cases of child sexual abuse occurred every day in 2015:...

Pakistan has remained far from meeting its national and international commitments to protect and promote the rights of children, according to a report. The report,...

KP minister promises education for every child

  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Elementary Education Muhammad Atif Khan has said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led provincial government’s educational policy was meant to ensure access...