Islamabad, Feb 16 (IANS) Honour killings continue to emerge as a serious human rights issue in Pakistan, as the number of incidents reported across the country remain high while the rate of convictions is low, a report has stated. A report in The Express Tribune Magazine stated, “Every now and then, some isolated case of honour killings makes its way to the media. However, beyond individual tragedies lies a bleak national picture, where family forgiveness, judicial delays, and weaknesses in law …
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Islamabad, Feb 13 (IANS) An inspection of buildings conducted by the Sindh government committee has revealed that 91.3 per cent of the buildings in province lacked fire safety arrangements, Pakistani media reported on Friday. The government has decided to seal high-risk buildings which were found by the committee in violation of fire safety laws in Sindh. The committee was set up after the fire incident in Karachi’s Gul Plaza which claimed lives of nearly 80 people, injured hundreds and caused f…
Islamabad, Feb 10 (IANS) Two polio teams were attacked in different areas of Pakistan’s Lahore as parents did not allow them to administer polio drops to their children, local media reported on Tuesday. According to police, the suspects in Harbanspura area did not allow the polio team to administer drops to their children and then allegedly attacked the health workers, Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn reported.According to the FIR, the suspects attacked the polio workers and subsequently, called th…
Islamabad, Feb 9 (IANS) Around a million children were not vaccinated and 53,000 refusals were reported during the first polio campaign conducted in Pakistan in 2026, the local media reported on Monday. During the campaign, the largest share of refusals – 58 per cent – were reported in Pakistan’s Karachi. Polio drops were administered to over 44.3 million children in Pakistan. The data has indicated that the polio campaign achieved household coverage of 98 per cent, with only two per cent childr…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Despite adequate funding and provincial autonomy following the 18th Amendment in Pakistan, Sindh has emerged as a distressing case of policy failure and neglect, according to a new report.The ‘Household Integrated Economic Survey 2024-25’ reflects the paradox, painting two Pakistans — one advancing and the other left behind, according to Express Tribune. For example, Sindh has highest proportion of households (14 per cent) without any toilet facilities — worse than…
Islamabad, Feb 8 (IANS) Pakistan has been ranked last in South Asia’s literacy rating, as per recent data, and its education crisis has become its most severe economic vulnerability, according to a report in the Pakistani media. “A Free and Fair Election Network report shows Pakistan has climbed to a 63 per cent literacy rate, which is a staggering 15 percentage points below the regional average of 78 per cent. In today’s competitive global economy, no nation can hope to thrive with an undereduc…
Islamabad, Feb 7 (IANS) The persistence of child marriage in Pakistan, despite legislative progress, underscores deep entrenchment of social norms and structural inequalities that laws alone cannot dismantle, an editorial in the country’s financial daily ‘Business Recorder’ observed. It quoted Gallup Pakistan’s latest Digital Analytics report that revealed nearly one in 10 adolescents aged 15–19 as married, a figure that starkly illustrates the disconnect between legal frameworks and lived r…
Islamabad, Feb 6 (IANS) About 28 per cent of school-age children in Pakistan — roughly 20 million — remain out of school, exposing structural failures that cannot be fixed by political slogans, a report has stated. “The latest findings of the Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) offer a sobering reality check on Pakistan’s education and human development trajectory. Despite repeated official declarations of an ‘education emergency,’ 28 per cent of school-age children — roughly 20 mi…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Pakistan is facing water bankruptcy with the groundwater table declining sharply every year, as states such as Punjab and Sindh remain locked in a dispute of sharing of water, according to an article in the Karachi-based The News International.The article by Mohsin Leghari, a former Irrigation and Finance Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, cites the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) January 2026 report, titled ‘Glob…
Islamabad, Feb 3 (IANS) An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Rawalpindi once again on Tuesday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sister Aleema Khan and her two guarantors for the November 2024 protest, local media reported. The court also issued a show-cause notice to the Superintendent of Police (SP) Rawal for not executing the non-bailable arrest warrants against Aleema Khan. The court issued non-bailable warrants for two guarantors – Nadeem Bilal a…