Tag: Children

KARACHI - A survey has revealed that 3,090 children reportedly went missing in Karachi in the year 2010. Child and women rights NGO, Roshni Helpline, said in its annual report out of these missing children, 2,472 (80 percent) were boys and 618 (20 percent) were girls.
"If children are out of touch with their family or guardians, we define them as missing," said Muhammad Ali, president of the Roshni Helpline. "Everyone below the age of 18 is internationally defined as a child," he

ISLAMABAD - A survey of 32 districts reveals that twenty percent children living in rural areas of the country have no access to the schools.
Pakistan Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2010 launched here on Monday by South Asian Forum for Education Development said that more than half of the children in the public or private education system could not read even a sentence in proper Urdu. It said that 71 percent children were getting education in government schools, 27

ISLAMABAD - The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has warned that children in flood-stricken areas of Pakistan, who are already suffering from acute respiratory infections and malnutrition, are at risk because of no protection against cold weather.
An UNICEF official told APP on Sunday that the organisation needed $82.1 million to continue its life-saving and recovery programmes for children in the flood-hit areas. He said additional funds would be

KARACHI - Children should be immunised against prevalent diseases before being admitted to schools, Shah Faisal Town Administrator Kamal Mustafa said on Tuesday.
He also initiated an anti-polio drive in his area by overseeing the administration of polio vaccinations to children at the town office.
"Everyone is responsible for ensuring the eradication of polio and other diseases from the country," he said.

LAHORE - Even if only one polio case exists in the country, threat of this menace will still remain for other children, speakers at the inaugural ceremony of a three-day National Anti-Polio Campaign held at the Children's Hospital said on Monday.
The participants said eradication of polio was a collective responsibility of the government as well as society and all should work hard with dedication for this noble cause.
Member of the National Assembly Naseer Bhutta, Member

PARIS: Up to half a dozen children were being held hostage by a 17-year-old youth armed with two swords at a nursery school in the eastern French city of Besancon, the city's mayor said on Monday.
The young man took around 20 children hostage shortly after the kindergarten opened, but later released a dozen or so. "Around 14 children have come out and at the moment there are five or six still inside," Besancon Mayor Jean-Louis Fousseret told France Info radio. The

KABUL: Children are probably safer growing up in Afghanistan's major cities, including the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, than in London, New York, or Glasgow, NATO's top civilian envoy to Afghanistan has said.
Mark Sedwill's comments were made during an interview to be aired on Monday on Children's BBC Newsround, a popular British daily current affairs programme aimed at children.
Children living in the Afghan capital Kabul had told the show's presenter they felt unsafe