Tag: Children
16m children to receive polio drops in 82 districts
A special polio eradication drive continued on Wednesday in 82 districts of the country to vaccinate over 16 million children of under five-year age....
Begging on the rise at traffic signals
The number of beggars, especially children and women, is increasing in the city. Beggars are seen at every traffic signal and it is a...
SPARC calls for legislation to end violence against children
The responsibility for the increasing incidents of violence against children rests on the failure of the state and calls for the civil society to...
Children protest against violation of rights
A peaceful demonstration was organised under the theme ‘Violence against Children’ by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC)...
Children the CM forgot!
The Government Sunrise School for the Blind, in Kasurpura, is one of the province’s most reputed and oldest schools for the visually impaired. However,...
Slum children paint t-shirts to raise funds for school
As many as 100 slum children have painted T-shirts to sell them for raising funds for the open-air school run by Master Ayub here...
The children working Karachi’s streets
Most of Pakistan’s street children live in the teeming, southern city of Karachi. The latest estimate of numbers comes from 2005 when the United...
Children clean up Clifton beach on Earth Day
School children joined the US Consulate employees on Sunday morning to remove trash from the Clifton beach in recognition of Earth Day 2012.
Earth Day,...
Street children whose responsibility?
The International Day for Street Children is celebrated every year on April 12 which provides a platform for the millions of street children around...
Over 100,000 tribal children miss polio vaccine
Around 1,981 parents have refused vaccination to their children in the tribal belt, whereas authorities said that over 100,000 children missed out in the...
Over 7 million children in Pakistan don’t attend school
An estimated 7.3 million primary school aged children in Pakistan do not attend school, depriving them of their right to education, and preventing them...
Afghan market bombs injure 24, mostly children
Twin bomb blasts tore through a market in northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan province on Monday wounding two dozen people, just over half of them school...
Bin Laden fathered four children while on run: wife
Osama bin Laden fathered four children as he hid out in Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks, his youngest wife told interrogators, according to a...
Petition seeks free education to children
A petition, seeking provision of free education by the state to the children of age group from 5 to 16 years, was filed in...
Shifa organises family fun to promote healthy lifestyle
The Shifa International Hospital (SIH) organised a colourful fun day with the theme of “Heart Healthy Family Day” for families, children, heart patients and...
PBM organises children art therapy workshop
With an aim to use art for a cause to bring smiles back on the faces of internally displaced children from the calamity-hit areas...
French police kill ‘Al-Qaeda’ militant, end siege
Armed police stormed a house and killed a gunman whose murders of Jewish schoolchildren and soldiers traumatised France and briefly halted the presidential election...
