Tag: Parents

Islamabad deputy commissioner consumes polio drops to appease reluctant parents

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad deputy commissioner Hamza Shafqaat on Thursday consumed polio drops in order to convince a parent who was reluctant to administer the vaccine to...

Parents, students for early upgradation of FDE schools

Residents say renovation of final 200 schools, colleges still in doldrums ISLAMABAD: Parents and students living in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) have demanded of...

Aitchison, LGS-JT entry tests on same day leave parents in a...

This year, Lahore’s premium educational institutions Aitchison College and Lahore Grammar School-Johar Town Branch (LGS-JT) conducted their admission tests on the same day. Now, this...

Parents’ protest as teacher cut off hair of 16 girl-students

PAKPATTAN: Parents and affected students on Sunday held a protest against the teacher who cut off the hair of 16 girl students of a...

AD Khawaja meets parents of slain Hindu brothers

THAR: Sindh Inspector General Police (IGP) AD Khawaja met the parents of the two slain Hindu brothers in Thar here on Monday, expressed condolence...

Disappearance of labourers: APDP welcomes constitution of SIT

ISLAMABAD: The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) has welcomed an order issued by the High Court (HC) directing the Special Investigating Team...

Suicide risk related to behaviour of parents: research

MIAMI: Adolescents who feel their parents rarely express interest in their emotional well-being are far more likely to consider suicide than youths who see their...

Parents of rescued Canadian citizen thank Pak Army in video message

The parents of the rescued Canadian citizen Joshua Boyle have thanked Pakistan Army for successfully rescuing their son, his American wife and their three children, in...

Unique salon for kids opens in DHA

LAHORE: In a bid to modernise haircuts for kids, ‘The Kids Salon’ has been opened in Y Block DHA, Lahore. The salon has been...

Republican MP joins Democrat after Trump’s attack on Pakistani-American parents

A Republican lawmaker in Congress became the first to break with his party over the White House campaign on Tuesday, denouncing presidential candidate Donald...

Parents of martyred APS students to protest outside Parliament

Parents of the martyred Army Public School children said on Saturday that if justice is not served, they will hold a peaceful protest in...

Parents stop children from taking school trip to local mosque in...

Some parents in England banned their children from a religious education school trip to a local mosque following ‘safety’ concerns. Lostwithiel School in Cornwall had...

Insufficient security at govt schools puts parents on tenterhooks

Despite categorical instructions by the Punjab government for ensuring foolproof security of the educational institutions to ward off any threat by the terrorists, there...

Parents of US hostage appeal to Islamic State captors

The parents of a US hostage who Islamic State militants claimed had been killed in an airstrike said they were “hopeful” she was still...

Parents shy away from sending children to ‘insecure schools’

Concerned parents find security measures adopted at most schools to be inadequate, demand govt to provide funds to all schools to adopt standard security...

Parents of 12,000 children refuse polio drops in Peshawar

Govt begins anti-polio campaign in North Waziristan as WHO denies halting immunisation campaign in Balochistan after Wednesday’s killings As the provincial government began an anti-polio...

Parents of slow learners get counselling by British psychiatrists

RAWALPINDI The Centre for Profound Education (CPE) on Monday organized an Open Day to provide an opportunity to the parents of students with special needs...