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Taliban torched 473 educational institutions: Malik
October 31, 2009
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday that the Taliban in their subversive activities burnt 409 educational institutions in the Malakand division, and 64 in the federally administered tribal areas (FATA).
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Child abuse, acid throwing to be punishable under ATA: Sanaullah
Nov.5 LAHORE:
Criminals accused of child abuse and acid throwing will be tried under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), while action will be initiated against the station house officer (SHO) concerned if prompt action is not taken, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday. |
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Child thrown into curry pot over petty domestic dispute
Nov.4
LAHORE: A man and a woman allegedly killed a two-and-a-half-year-old girl by throwing her into a cooking pot filled with boiling curry in Islampura. Police have registered a case on a complaint by victim Laiba’s mother, Shumaila, against Abdul Hameed (70) and his daughter-in-law Bilqees. |
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Parents, kindergartens equally at loss by closure orders
Nov.04
LAHORE: The government’s decision of enforcing a closure of kindergartens across the province has created a number of difficulties for parents and school administrations alike. |
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Two teachers suspended for torturing student
October 22, 2009
THE Lahore Education Executive District Officer (EDO) on Wednesday told the Lahore High Court (LHC) that two teachers of the Government Progressive School, Model Town, had been suspended who had tortured a girl student, Wishal Khurram. |
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Rs59 million for 10 schools in rural areas
October 21, 2009
Islamabad: A number of development projects, including those relating to education and health, are being launched in rural areas of the capital under the Islamabad Development Package. |
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One million children face threat to education: UN
July 31, 2009 | The News
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations warned on Thursday that one million
children could have their education interrupted in Pakistan, where conflict
with the Taliban has damaged or turned schools into civilian shelters. Around
600,000 out of an estimated 2.2 million people displaced by fighting between
government troops and the Taliban across the northwest have returned home,
a UN spokeswoman told a news conference. |
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Educational institutions closed countrywide
October 21, 2009
KARACHI: All government and private schools, colleges and universities have been closed throughout the country because of fears about militant attacks after twin suicide bombings at a university campus in Islamabad on Tuesday, officials said. |
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200 brainwashed children recovered
July 28, 2009 | The News
ISLAMABAD: NWFP Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour on Monday said
that 200 children of ages 6 to 13 years had been recovered from Malakand
who were completely brainwashed for conducting suicide attacks. Talking
to a private television channel, the provincial senior minister said that
initially the discovered children were not ready to listen any argument
against their mission. He said the government would try to educate these
children in such a way that they could live in a civilized manner. |
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Women prisoners tortured during
July 27, 2009 | The News
LAHORE: Most women prisoners were subjected to physical abuse during
interrogations by police, says a survey conducted by the AGHS Legal Aid
Cell Team while visiting different jails. According to the survey, female
prisoners constitute 1.4 percent of the total prisoners held in the Punjab
jails with 876 adults and five juveniles. Over 67 per cent of them are under
trial. |
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