Tag: Children

The condition of around 2,600 of the 3,752 schools under the administrative control of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is in a deplorable...

According to Osama bin Laden’s will, his last wish was that his wives not remarry and his children not join Al Qaeda. Guardian quoted...

Around 7.5 million Pakistani adults and 15 million children suffer from asthma due to the increasing urban population, enlarging intercity industries, air pollution and...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has commended the PT display presented by the children of City School. "The Punjab Games turned out to be a success at Lahore's Punjab Stadium. There is no doubt that children of the City School, Ravi Campus Junior Section, participated in the Opening Ceremony of the Punjab Games with the CM Shahbaz Sharif being chief guest. The children contributed a lot in the success of show with attractive display during opening ceremony," said

TOKYO - Six children were killed on their way to school Monday morning after they were hit by a crane truck that veered from its lane on a clear straight road and crashed into a building, police said. The driver Masato Shibata, 26, was arrested on the spot on a street in Kanuma city in Tochigi prefecture north of Tokyo, a police spokesman said. The six children, aged nine to eleven, were pronounced dead at the scene by an emergency physician or at hospital, said the police

LAHORE - A government handout issued on Thursday announced the establishment of the country's first independent specialized paediatric centre at Services Hospital for the treatment of HIV positive children under the National AIDS Control Programme.
National AIDS Control Program Programme Provincial Coordinator Dr Salman Shahid briefed Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad about the program.
He further said that qualified staff and latest diagnostic equipment had been

ASADABAD - A suicide attack ripped through a gathering of elders in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 10 people including five children, officials said.
The bomber struck in Kunar, one of Afghanistan's most restive provinces and an insurgent stronghold on the border with Pakistan. "A suicide attacker targeted a gathering of tribal elders in the Asmar district of Kunar today," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP.
"Ten people have been martyred and

ASADABAD - A suicide attack ripped through a gathering of elders in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 10 people including five children, officials said.
The bomber struck in Kunar, one of Afghanistan's most restive provinces and an insurgent stronghold on the border with Pakistan, where Taliban-led militants fighting the Afghan government and US-led troops have rear bases.
"A suicide attacker targeted a gathering of tribal elders in the Asmar district of Kunar

KARACHI - Since the start of the reconstruction phase, the Oxford University Press (OUP)-Pakistan has been supporting the rehabilitation efforts by contributing more than 300,000 copies of specially-developed storybooks for children in Sindhi, Urdu and English languages.
These books were distributed to the children in the flood-affected areas through the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)'s Temporary Learning Centres (TLCs) operating throughout Sindh.
Speaking at a

LAHORE - Sahil's data of child abuse and other crimes in 2010 reveals that a total of 2,252 children were sexually abused throughout Pakistan. This means that about seven children are being sexually abused every day.
Excluding abduction cases from the total reveals that four children fell prey to child sexual abuse every day in 2010. The harsh reality is that these figures are based on reported incidents so the actual number might be much larger. The three major crime categories

KARACHI - A polio vaccination campaign was launched on Wednesday in a ceremony held at the Government Dispensary in Bath Island.
Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah inaugurated the ceremony for the anti-polio drive aimed at protecting children against the crippling disease.
The chief minister also administered polio vaccine drops to some of the children.
Later, talking with media persons, Shah said that Pakistan, particularly the province of Sindh, was passing through a

PESHAWAR - An explosive device killed four children and wounded three others while they were playing at a pond in warm spring weather on Wednesday, police said.
Police said that the device exploded on the outskirts of the northwestern garrison town of Kohat in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where Taliban insurgents have been fighting against government troops.
The victims were aged seven and nine, police said.
"Four children have been killed and three others were

ISLAMABAD - Because of successive governments' failure in introducing any national policy on child protection coupled with ineffective laws safeguarding children's interests, violence against children in Pakistan has increased manifold with 5,120 reported cases during last year alone.
During a one-day orientation workshop here on Tuesday experts stressed the need to approve pending child protection laws and enforce implementation of the existing ones.
The workshop was

ISLAMABAD - Lack of coordination between the legislators and bureaucracy is responsible for the failure to control polio in the country, as 24 new cases have been registered so far in the current year, which is twice in number when compared with same period last year. Another alarming fact is that 0.25 million children are still inaccessible in FATA. Public representatives and health experts made these comments on Monday while asking for proper monitoring and oversight of the National

KARACHI - Irrational medication and promiscuity to adults suffering from tuberculosis (TB) have caused multi-drug resistant (MDR) infections among children referred to the National Institute of Child Health (NICH). This was disclosed by NICH Executive Director Prof Syed Jamal Raza, while addressing a session organised by Sada Welfare Foundation on Thursday.
"A vast majority of the 4,880 TB patients aged between six months to 15 years, registered at the NICH during 2003 to 2011,

LAHORE - The Kashf Foundation organised an annual naat competition in connection with Eid Milad-un-Nabi (PBUH) on Sunday. The competition was held for Kashf's clients' children, most of whom belonged to low income households.
The objective of the event was to enhance Kashf's community presence amongst its clientele and to encourage extracurricular activities among Kashf's community. Armish Chaudhary won a trophy and computer system as the first prize, Ayesha Rehman won a trophy

SINGAPORE - Radioactive materials spewed into the air by Japan's earthquake-crippled nuclear plant may contaminate food and water resources, with children and unborn babies most at risk of possibly developing cancer.
Experts said any exposure to radioactive materials has the potential to cause various kinds of cancers, with higher levels of radiation seen as more dangerous. But they said they needed more accurate measurements for the level of radioactivity in Japan, and the