Tag: Children
California couple held over torturing 13 children due in court
CALIFORNIA: A California couple arrested on suspicion of torture was due in court on Thursday after investigators discovered they were holding their 13 malnourished...
30 children killed in Syria’s E Ghouta this year says UNICEF
EAST GHOUTA: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said more than 30 children were killed in the first two weeks of 2018 in besieged...
IG asks educational institutions to launch children security campaigns
KARACHI: Islamabad Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sultan Azam Temuri asked the administrators of educational institutions on Friday to launch awareness sessions with parents...
Ashram sex scandal: Court seeks to release 48 girls forcefully sent...
DEHLI: The parents of 48 girls, who were sent to children’s home — Minda Bal Gram in Alipur after the raid at the ashrams of...
Temuri for quality education for children of policemen
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sultan Azam Temuri, on Thursday, said that it is his great desire and vision to ensure quality education...
Woman attempts self-immolation along with three children in Sheikhupura
SHEIKHUPURA: A woman disappointed over domestic disputes attempted self-immolation and also set on fire her three children and were hospitalised in critical condition.
Rescue sources...
Apple shareholders urge study of iPhone addiction in children
Two major Apple shareholders Jana Partners and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System are urging the smartphone maker to take steps to address what...
Australia joins hands with Pakistan to end violence against children
LAHORE: Protection from violence, abuse and exploitation must be a top priority of the government, as the state is obligated under United Nations Convention on...
2.5 million Bangladeshi children are drug addicts: MANAS
DHAKA: The head of Association for the Prevention of Drug Abuse (MANAS), Arup Ratan Chaudhury, an estimated more than 2.5 million children were drug addicts...
Children vulnerable to conflict in Ethiopia, says UNICEF
ADDIS ABABA: Conflict along the borders of Ethiopia's Oromia and Somali regions may separate up to 14,000 children from their families, The United Nations Children's...
Met Police issues warning to Pakistani for filming Hassan Nawaz’s children:...
LONDON: The Metropolitan police issued a warning to a Pakistani national on filming former Nawaz Sharif’s son, Hassan Nawaz’s young children, reported a local media...
Children increasingly used as weapons of war: UNICEF
UNITED NATIONS: Children caught in war zones are increasingly being used as weapons of war – recruited to fight, forced to act as suicide...
6 per cent children are malnourished in Pakistan: report
ISLAMABAD: The Global Nutrition Report 2017 showed that 6 per cent children in Pakistan are stunted and facing obesity due to the consumption of...
Sushma Swaraj grants medical visa to five ailing Pakistani children
NEW DELHI: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday announced granting visas to five Pakistani children, including a 10-month-old baby, for medical treatment in...
Three children injured in landmine blast near Miranshah
MIRANSHAH: At least three children were injured in a landmine blast in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Sunday.
Political administration sources said that the blast...
Facebook introduces ‘Messenger Kids’ for children under 13
Facebook Inc rolled out Messenger Kids, an app that lets the world’s biggest social media company expand into a so-far untapped market of kids...
Woman kills three children, attempts suicide
HAFIZABAD: A woman killed her three minor children in Pindi Bhattian, threw their bodies in the Jhang canal and then tried to take her own...
