Islamabad, March 12 (IANS) Millions of children in Pakistan are being left behind by the slow invisible erosion of chronic undernutrition. The crisis unfolding is related to 40 per cent of children in Pakistan aged below five years who are stunted, the nearly 10 million impacted by chronic growth failure and the millions more whose brain development is compromised during the most important phase of human life, resulting in Pakistan’s already strained systems facing further pressure, a report h…
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Islamabad, March 12 (IANS) Around 20,000 teachers working in 4,300 schools functioning under the Punjab Education Initiatives Management Authority (PEIMA) in Pakistan have not been paid salaries for the past three months, causing financial problems for them, local media reported. Many teachers would quit their jobs due to non-payment of salaries, leading to closure of schools and impacting education of nearly 600,000 students. Teachers and schools administrations said that salaries of PEIMA part…
Islamabad, March 12 (IANS) Retailers in big cities of Pakistan have raised prices of confectionery and other daily-use commodities, including fresh fruits, citing the recent rise in petroleum prices, although the majority of the shops were still selling existing stock purchased at older prices, local media reported on Thursday. This has raised serious concerns for the consumers. People said that shopkeepers started asking for higher prices for commonly consumed products like noodles, toothpaste,…
Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) The local police authorities in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad arrested several ‘Aurat March’ activists earlier this week who had assembled near the National Press Club to demand gender justice on the eve of International Women’s Day. Even those who came to police station for getting information about detained participants were reportedly taken into custody. Such heavy-handedness showcases a troubling pattern in Pakistan, where the constitutional right to peaceful protes…
Islamabad, March 10 (IANS) People living in a coastal village in Badin district of Pakistan’s Sindh province have voiced concern over the closure of a government primary school for the past five years, resulting in local children not having access to even basic education, local media reported. The Government Primary School in Sheikh Qarehio Bhandari village, the last settlement of Union Council Bhugra Memon in the coastal belt of Badin, remains non-operational for years. Local residents have sai…
Islamabad, March 10 (IANS) The Human Rights Council of Pakistan, a non-government organisation, has revealed that as many as 258 rape cases were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in 2025. However, only one conviction was recorded, the local media reported. Human Rights Council of Pakistan (HRCP) revealed the fresh statistics in a 2025 human rights report launched at the Peshawar Press Club, Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn reported.During the launch of the report, the council’s provincial pre…
Islamabad, March 9 (IANS) Local authorities have imposed Section 144 in Dera Ismail Khan city of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province considering the current law and order situation. They have also issued orders to restrict movement on several roads and in sensitive areas, local media reported on Monday citing an official notification. Dera Ismail Khan Deputy Commissioner Abdul Nasir Khan said the restrictions would remain in effect from 6 am to 6 pm (local time). During this period, movement …
Islamabad, March 8 (IANS) Pakistan is facing renewed scrutiny as questions are being raised about the low number of deportations as the UK bans visas to some nations that have high asylum cases, local media reported. The development comes days after the UK placed an “emergency brake” on visas of people from four nations after an increase in asylum claims from legal routes. The UK Home Office will end sponsored study visas for people of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan and end skilled …
Islamabad, March 7 (IANS) Pakistan’s persistent polio outbreak reflects political neglect, with successive governments failing to establish a coherent national pro-vaccination narrative, while not countering extremist propaganda. The present Pakistani government has been absorbed in political and judicial manoeuvres, ignoring the public health crises, a report said on Saturday.Citing leading Pakistani daily Dawn, it said that around one million children were not reached and nearly 53,000 famil…
Islamabad, March 6 (IANS) Leaders of the Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association (PPDA) have warned that petrol pumps across the country may start shutting down within the next few days after several petroleum firms have cut their supplies, local media reported. Addressing media at the Lahore Press Club, the association’s Central Secretary General Chaudhry Irfan Elahi stated the situation had become alarming due to reducing supply of fuel, Pakistan’s leading daily ‘The Express Tribune’ reported. …