Tag: Children

KABUL - An airstrike by NATO-led forces killed two children as they were watering fields in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province late on Monday, an Afghan official and lawmaker said. The deaths occurred weeks after tensions between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers were inflamed by the killing of nine children who were collecting firewood in the same province.
Last year was the most lethal for non-combatants since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001,

LAHORE - The Society for the Protection of the Rights of Child (SPARC) has shown concern over increasing violence against children. For this purpose an awareness walk was organised by the society in collaboration with Allama Iqbal High School Umer Road, Kirshan Nagar, Lahore, from the school to the Punjab Civil Secretariat. More than 100 children along with adults and the school staff participated in the awareness walk. The children carried banners addressing their rights and asking

QUETTA - Two children were injured in a toy bomb explosion in Quetta's suburbs on Monday. According to police, Attaur Rehman was playing with his sister Bilqees, 6, near his house located at Kirani Road when they found a hard object and started playing with it. Resultantly, the object exploded and seriously injured both the children who were later shifted to a hospital. Police spotted an improvised explosive device (IED) attached with an electric pylon at Kirani Road and called the

ISLAMABAD - Around 2.1 million children are born with mental disorders each year because of iodine deficiency in pregnant women in Pakistan. According to health experts, iodine deficiency in the mother leads to stillbirth, miscarriage and birth of children with mental disorders, lack of cognitive abilities and congenital abnormalities like deafness, dumbness and stunted growth. Urinary iodine test results revealed that around 36 percent of mothers and 23 percent of pre-school children

LAHORE - The Welfare Finishing School of Rukhsana Foundation, a school for underprivileged children, celebrated its annual music day last month. Foundation Chairperson Rukhsana Tahirkheli was the chief guest and students performed various acts, which were appreciated by the audience. The foundation supports more than 120 underprivileged and poor students by providing them with free education. The foundation mostly helps children whose parents are scavengers and work on daily wages.

SIALKOT - As many as 522,025 children below five years would be administered anti-polio vaccine during a three-day national anti-polio campaign to be started in Sialkot district from March 7. Sialkot District Coordination Officer (DCO) Mujahid Sher Dil said this while presiding over a meeting. The DCO said 1,037 mobile teams, 130 stationed teams and 49 transit teams of Sialkot health department would cover all the four tehsils, Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial and Pasrur, to administer

PESHAWAR - Urging the media to focus attention on the poor literacy rate, Inayat Ullah Khan, President Pakistan Association for Adult Continuing Education (PACADE), Saturday said the systematic destruction of schools and colleges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA was depriving the children of their basic right to get education.
Addressing 'Media Forum for the Promotion of Literacy in Pakistan' at Peshawar Press Club (PPC), he called for stemming the trend and taking steps to root

PESHAWAR - At least five people, including three women, were killed and 10 others injured when rockets fired by the Taliban hit a residential area in Hangu district on Tuesday.
The militants sheltering in the nearby mountainous region had intended to target the security forces' checkpost at Tora Ghundai in the Doaba area but the rockets missed the target and resulted in civilian casualties. According to police officials, three rockets landed in an unpopulated area whereas five

LAHORE - Punjab's physically challenged children are being deprived of facilities they were granted during the previous government, former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said on Saturday. The Punjab government has denied zakat to orphans since 2008 and now has refused to help support the disabled which was condemnable, said Elahi, senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q.
He said that these decisions come in contempt of the Punjab governments trumpeting of the

KARACHI - Pediatricians and oncologists on Tuesday recommended allocation of a regular specific amount under Baitul Maal funds for the treatment of children suffering from different forms of cancers in the country. The suggestion was forwarded at a seminar organised at the Children Cancer Hospital on the International Childhood Cancer Day on Tuesday.
"The efforts under way to contain infant mortality caused due to conditions such as diarrhoea and acute respiratory infections also

KARACHI - More than 25,000 children are living on the streets in Karachi and vulnerable to diseases like AIDS, Sindh Human Rights Minister Nadia Gabol said on Sunday. "Seventy percent of these children are drug addicts," she added.
Talking to a delegation of a social welfare organisation, Gabol stressed the need for accumulated efforts to rehabilitate youth suffering from drug abuse.

Federal judicial academy arranged a workshop in collaboration with British High Commission and NGO "Struggle for Change" for judicial officers at a local hotel. The objective of workshop was to create awareness about the protocol signed by Pakistan Chief Justice (CJ) and the Presidents' Family Division High Court of England and Wales which ensures that a child removed from lawful custody of parent against the order of a court in Pakistan or UK is brought back to the custody of

The first ever three days Tulip Flower Show came to an emotion packed conclusion at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club, the beauty of the flowers providing an inspiration to a large number of flower enthusiasts, growers, farmers and families and at the concluding prize distribution ceremony overflow of emotions as the paintings of the tulips drawn by special children of Rising Sun Institute were displayed. Judges of the painting competition declared Umar's painting as the top one

HAFIZABAD: At least five people sustained serious injuries when an LPG shop caught fire while two of them were shifted to a Lahore hospital.
Reportedly, Ghulam Farid was busy in refilling LPG gas cylinder in his shop on Madhrianwala Road on Friday when a fire engulfed not only all the shops but also adjacent houses. As a result, Nadeem, Ghulam Farid and three children were injured and shifted to a local hospital. Rescue 1122 and the fire brigade staff put off the fire.

KHAIRPUR: Police have claimed to arrest nine members of Inter-Provincial group involved in disabled children's trafficking to Iran for begging the other day. Khairpur District Police Officer (DPO) Khadim Hussain Rind said in a press conference that the police had arrested nine people who used to smuggle handicapped children to Iran where they were positioned at the shrines and every child used to collect Rs fifty thousand per month. He said that Sarang Jaffery, Laiq Jaffery, Wahab

LAHORE - The federal government should introduce an effective protection system for children and the Punjab government should give priority to children's issues, speakers of a workshop organised by Sahil in collaboration with Action Aid on effects of the 18th Constitutional Amendment on children said on Tuesday.
Punjab Assembly (PA) Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood was the chief guest while Punjab CM's Advisor Zakia Shahnawaz presided over the workshop. Pakistan People's Party (PPP)

KARACHI - More than 645 acres of precious land reserved for parks are in the possession of the land mafia but the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is struggling to act upon Supreme Court (SC) orders to recover this land due to the patronage of a political party.