Tag: Children
Protest against non-recovery of 5 children
Failure of City Division Investigation Police to recover four teenagers kidnapped two months ago brought the families of kidnapped boys on the roads to...
Overburdened students
Tests, tests, exams, and more tests
Whenever I visit a friend’s house, who has four school-going children, I always find, apart from the summer holidays...
iSample: vending machine that refuses dessert to children
A vending machine that gives out free puddings to adults, but none to children sounds like something dreamed up by Roald Dahl. But the...
‘Stop beating children up!’
Society for the Protection of the Rights of Children (SPARC) organised a consultation with a focus on the elimination of corporal punishment from all...
Chained children in Pakistan: Not an uncommon treatment
Police rescued dozens of students at an Islamic seminary in Karachi, saying that some of them were drug addicts kept in chains. While the...
A shared aim: all children reading
Today, more than 70 percent of children in primary schools of Pakistan cannot read at the appropriate grade level. During the last decade, Pakistan...
UAE gives women right to pass nationality to children
The United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday that children of Emirati women married to foreigners could apply for citizenship once they turned 18, moving closer...
Effects of internet usage on students
Internet, the source pioneer of the computing world, starts with the development of computers. Earlier, it was used only to share information with inter-connected...
Children’s Literature Festival a roaring success
The first of its kind Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) was held at the Children’s Library Complex, on November 25 and 26. The two-day festival,...
Slum children exposed to unhygienic conditions
Saleema Akhtar, a middle-aged women with her one year old son, Zubair, in her arms, was waiting for her turn to be seen by...
Children Literature Festival kicks off
The Children’s Library Complex was a changed place on Friday as dozens of children were seen filtering in and rushing out excitedly. Every room...
Ignoring primacy of children’s registration distressing
It is certainly distressing to know that around 99 percent of children, including 99 percent in Balochistan and FATA, make up the list of...
Jailed for no fault of their own
Arrangement should be made by the police, judiciary and jail administration to keep the children of those who have committed a crime away from...
‘Timely treatment can save children born with heart disease’
Early diagnosis and timely treatment can markedly improve the chances of survival of the children born with congenital heart disease, consultant paediatric and cardiologist...
All set for inaugural Children Fest
The Oxford University Press (OUP) Pakistan and the Idara-e-Taaleem-o-Agahi (ITA) held a press conference to mark the inauguration of the two-day national Children’s Literature...
SPARC event on children
SPARC will arrange a one-day consultation to highlight the issues of “Children of Incarcerated (Imprisoned) Parents” today (Thursday) from 10am to 1pm, at Blossoms...
Millions of kids do not officially exist
Stressing the need for registering all births in Pakistan, the UNICEF said on Saturday that around three million children born in the country each...
