KARACHI: The Sindh government on 22nd launched two more routes of the womenonly Pink Bus Service and announced that female passengers could avail the facility free of cost for a period of two months. Of the two new routes, one would connect
KARACHI: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked more than 1.25 million URLs over objectionable content, the telecom sector regulator told the Sindh High Court on 16 April 2024. The authority submitted its reply to a petition filed against `objectionable, unethical, immoral
Taking notice of growing incidents of street crimes in the metropolis, Inspector General of Sindh Police Ghulam Nabi Memon on 31 March 2024 announced that a specialised unit would investigate cases of those mugging in which robbers murdered their victims. He said
As many as 646 qualified teachers, or about 16pc of around 4,000 candidates, have cleared their test to get a teaching licence in compliance with the Sindh Teaching Licence Policy 2023, it emerged on March 30, 2024. Around 4,000 BEd or MEd/MA
Expressing grave concern over ceasing the issuance of computerized national identity cards (CNICs) to transgender persons by the National Database Registration Authority, the Sindh Human Rights Commission has asked the authority to facilitate members of the already marginalized community in its centers
The Sindh High Court on 24 March 2024 directed the provincial authorities to frame recruitment rules for the education department after it was informed that over 7,000 government schoolteachers across the province were set to retire by December 2025. A single-judge bench
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on 22 March 2024 said that the donor agency would work with the Sindh government to chalk out a plan for the reconstruction of flood-affected school buildings in the province. A press statement issued
Pakistan ranks 161st on a list of 191 countries on the UN Human Development Index, scoring 0.544 points, according to a report released on 13 March 2024. This shows a slight improvement from 2023, when Pakistan was ranked 164th with 0.540 points, which
A sessions court has sentenced a man to two years in the custody of a probation officer for marrying an underage girl, according to a news report. Additional District and Sessions Judge (west) Irshad Hussain found Muhammad Aslam, 40, guilty of marrying
The Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has entered in collaboration with the Labour and Human Resources Department, Government of Sindh. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was inked with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Pakistan, centering around the pivotal theme of Pakistan Labour Academy (PLA) 2024. The