KARACHI: With approximately 700,000 book sets distributed, the Sindh Textbook Board (STBB) has claimed to have “successfully” completed the delivery of textbooks to government schools in the Karachi region. The move came almost a week after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 8 August directed the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) to establish 300 digital ‘microschools’ to enroll 300,000 out-of-school children and hire over 600 female learning facilitators and approved Rs800 million for the purpose. He gave
In a concerted effort to combat the poliovirus, which has been detected in environmental samples throughout Karachi, around 1.037 million children between the ages of four months and five years will be targeted in the next campaign, officials said on Monday. They
A former police officer has been arrested for a firing incident in Quaidabad three days ago that resulted in the deaths of a police officer and a two-year-old child. Malir SSP Kashif Abbasi and Korangi SSP Touheed Rehman Memon announced the arrest
HYDERABAD: A 10-year-old boy was allegedly shot dead by a landowner over a petty issue in the Husri area on 3rd August. The boy, Tahir Mallah, died instantly after he received a single shot, according to his parents. The bereaved family is
The Sindh Governor House is soon going to commence distribution of food ration packages among deserving families on a 24-hour basis. Governor Kamran Khan Tessori, stated this on August 3 while talking to media persons at the Governor House on Saturday. Tessori
KARACHI: In a shocking development, the family of Fatima Furiro, a minor girl found dead under suspicious circumstances at the Haveli of the influential Pir of Ranipur last year, has reconciled with the main accused, Asad Shah Jeelani. Adding to this, other
A sessions court has awarded a collective sentence of 17 years imprisonment to a couple in a case pertaining to kidnapping and raping a minor girl. Ghulam Rasool and his wife Zaiba alias Naseem were found guilty of kidnapping a ten-year-old girl
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on 02-August-2024 stayed an additional sessions’ court order with regard to the suspension of the Gizri SHO in a girl abduction case and directed the Karachi additional IG to conduct an inquiry into the matter and take
LARKANA: A man, with the aid of his close relatives, shot dead his two teenage nieces and critically wounded their mother in sleep after barging into their house in Nazar locality here on 2nd August. The suspect Saeed Chandio, who was staying