Tag: Girls

LAHORE - Punjab have qualified for the first round of the Inter-Provincial Youth U16 Girls' Table Tennis Championship. The Punjab team thrashed both Islamabad and Fata 3-0 to reach the semi-finals. The final will be held on April 12 in Azad Jamu Kashmir.
Meanwhile, The Sports Board Punjab is organising the PSB Inter-Provincial Youth U16 Girls Badminton Championship trials at Iqbal Park Sports Complex. The nine divisional teams from all over Punjab will report at 9:00am for the

LAHORE - The Junior U18 National Girls' Hockey Championship will be played at National Hockey Stadium, Lahore from April 12 to 19. The championship is being organised by the Punjab Women's Wing on behalf of the PHF Women's Wing.
The Pre-Tournament Briefing will be held by the Tournament Director on April 11 at 2100 hours for the Team Managers and Captains and at 2200 hours for the Umpires/Judges/Team Doctors. Prof Abida Tanveer, President Punjab Women's Wing will be the

LAHORE - Punjab University Teaching Department won the PU 64th Inter-collegiate Girls Athletics Championship. They secured 247 points to clinch the trophy after competing in 15 disciplines of the championship participated by 26 colleges while Govt College Sumandari with 124 points was placed second and followed by Govt College Attock which got 77 points.
Sobia Sultana of the Teaching Department was declared the best athlete of the championship after she got 77 points. She also

NEW DELHI - The problem of India's "missing girls" has been put under a harsh spotlight by new census data showing the ratio of female to male children at its lowest level since independence in 1947.
According to the latest national headcount, there are now just 914 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of six, down from a ratio of 927 for every 1,000 a decade ago. Despite India's steady economic rise in the past 10 years, the figures show that the social bias against having

PORT-AU-PRINCE - Colombian pop star Shakira pledged $400,000 on Thursday to help rebuild a school for girls in Haiti that was severely damaged during the country's devastating earthquake last year.
The Grammy award winner and songwriter announced the contribution during a visit to the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, where she danced and sang with students of the Elie Dubois public school.

PESHAWAR - Some unknown miscreants blew up two more girls' primary schools in tehsil Landikotal, Khyber Agency to deprive girls of education in the area.
Reportedly, two girls' primary schools in Hukam Khan Kallay and Awal Said Kallay in Sultan Khel area of tehsil Landi Kotal were destroyed by planting explosive in them.
With the destruction of these schools, the total number of destroyed schools in Khyber Agency has climbed to 41 with 16 only in tehsil Landi Kotal.

ATTOCK - Three girls were killed when the roof of their house caved.
The incident took place in Pandi Gheb tehsil of Attock district at the house of Hafiz Hussain Ahmed when three girls were inside the roof when its roof collapsed due to breakage of its wooden beams.
All the girls, identified as Nadia, Samina and Sidra, died on the spot.

KASUR - A 13-year-old daughter of Muhammad Rafiq was going home from school when Farooq and Irfan abducted her and raped her at village Gharri Singh in the precincts of Kanganpur Police Station.
In the fourth incident, Touseef and Noor Muhammad abducted Gulshan Bibi from village Mian Wala Ghat and raped her at gunpoint.

SIALKOT - Unavailability of a surgeon at Daska Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital's emergency ward resulted in the death of an injured minor girl. Reportedly, labourer Muhammad Awais of village Bhallowali was cleaning his pistol when a bullet hit her five-year-old daughter Iqra. When she was taken to Daska THQ Civil Hospital's emergency ward, no surgeon was available there.
After hours-long wait for any doctor at the emergency ward of the hospital, some local people gathered

MURIDKE - A youth killed his sister while an uncle gunned down his niece in the Sadar police areas.
Ghulam Mustafa of Fatah Puri asked his elder sister Samra to wash his clothes. On her refusal, he opened fire and killed her instantly. The police have registered a case against the accused on the report of her father M Abbas.
In another incident, Sanaullah of Chak No 33 killed his niece Tabassum over illicit relations, and fled away. Sadar police have registered a case and

LAHORE - The Inter Divisional Youth U-16 Girls Badminton Championship will start from March 8 (today) at Faisalabad. The event is being organised by the Sports Board Punjab at Faisalabad and will terminate on March 10. The teams from all the eight divisions of Punjab will participate in the event. The championship will be held at Crescent Sports Complex, Faisalabad.

PESHAWAR - At least 18 girls' students and two others were injured when armed militants targeted the participants of a farewell party at the Government Girls Degree College Laund Khawar Mardan on Tuesday.
"Two militants riding on a motorbike first lobbed two hand grenades and then opened indiscriminate fire with pistols," Mardan Police Deputy Inspector General Abdullah Khan said, adding three injured were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar in a critical condition.