Karachi: A court has issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of six fleeing suspects in the high-profile case of a teenage girl who was allegedly kidnapped from Karachi and lured into illegal underage marriage in Punjab. Special Gender-Based Violence Court ...
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Islamabad: Speakers at a consultation termed the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill, 2022 as the need of the hour that aims to enforce the constitutional rights of children. They were speaking at a consultation arranged by the National Commission on ...
Read More »Over 2,000 Female Students Could Be Deprived Of Higher Education If Dormitories Abolished
HYDERABAD – The Vice Chancellor (VC) University of Sindh Prof Dr Muhammad Siddique Kalhoro has expressed fear that over two thousand female students belonging to rural areas of Sindh could be deprived of higher education if dormitories were abolished following ...
Read More »World is her oyster: Hazara girl recounts journey to Harvard
SWABI: Despite the material hardships and persecution she faced for being a Hazara girl, Karima Batool managed to clinch a gold medal at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering and Technology and now she is on her way to joining ...
Read More »Girls high school without teachers
TOBA TEK SINGH: Villagers of a Kamalia tehsil Chak 746-GB say the only government girls high school of this village where girls of someone dozen area villages and localities are studying, has been functioning without required teachers. Lumberdars of the ...
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