The arrival of a baby is time of change for a couple, high expectations, the thrill of shopping and dreams of names. Now with modern technology, parents know the gender of the unborn child and think of names for the coming guest. According to a ‘BabyCenter’ survey, 11 percent of parents ...
LOS ANGELES: An Australian choreographer alleged that Michael Jackson sexually abused him for seven years as a child, a claim the late singer’s estate described as “outrageous and sad.” Wade Robson - who testified at Jackson’s infamous 2005 molestation trial that the star ...
LAHORE An additional district and sessions judge Friday adjourned the hearing of a child abuse case until May 30 because the respondent’s counsel didn’t appeare in the court. Reportedly, five-year-old Samina was abused by a shopkeeper in Ichra. Having tears in eyes and trembling ...
LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson’s estate has slammed a new lawsuit filed in Los Angeles claiming that the late King of Pop, who died in 2009, was a “monster” and child molester.Australian choreographer Wade Robson has filed a claim alleging “childhood sexual abuse,” ...
The letter ‘Child burnt alive’ in your newspaper of May 04 was truly a wonderful write-up, and I hope an eye-opener for our government that has been slumbering for the last five years. There have been several cases of child abuse in Pakistan but I think that everyone needs to take an ...
CALIFORNIA: Lindsay Lohan wants to adopt her first child.The 26-year-old star - who recently checked into the Betty Ford Center in California for 90 days of court-ordered treatment - has revealed her future plans, said she would love to start a family.She said: ‘’I love kids. But I want ...
We all talk about issues like child labour and human rights, but we fail to understand that all this is possible in the countries that have achieved their basic goals, such as providing free basic education (matriculation) as well as health facilities. Pakistan is not a welfare state and it seems ...
SWAT - Our staff reporter - Maidan police on Sunday arrested a person for allegedly engaging his 10-year-old girl with a 49-year-old man apparently in order to get his loan written off.A person named Bajaoray of Thaan , tehsil Madyan of Swat district some time back had borrowed Rs 20,000 from one ...
All over the world, the news of a young child dying causes hue and cry, but such news in Pakistan raises no voices! An Islamic state, a free and developing country such as Pakistan has no respect for human life, the ongoing killings in Karachi and Baluchistan speak volumes, but the news of a six ...
CALIFORNIA: Katy Perry’s father has branded her a ‘devil child’. The ‘California Gurls’ hitmaker’s preacher dad Keith Hudson launched a shocking attack on his daughter for her salacious lyrics as well as her on-stage routines and outfits, and urged his ...
ISLAMABAD - To advocate for the cause of protecting the mother and the child from preventable diseases through immunisation, the World Immunisation Week and Mother and Child Week was launched here on Wednesday.This year the vaccination week focuses on measles elimination with the slogan 'stop ...
Death toll due to measles in Lahore mounted to 54 as another innocent child died of the epidemic here on Monday.The 14-month child gave up to the outbreak at Children’s Hospital of the provincial capital. The deceased belonged to the Rana Town area of the city.The situation seems to have gone ...
Corporal punishment in government schools is very common in our society since decades. Brutal physical punishment always discourages children, instead of teaching them a lesson in behavior. Punishment instills fear in a child and lowers the self-esteem. Children mostly start hating their schools ...
NEW DELHIA five-year-old Indian girl was battling for her life on Friday after being kidnapped and brutally raped in the latest incident of sexual violence which has triggered nationwide protests.The girl was attacked inside a locked room over a 48-hour period, police said, after being abducted as ...
ISLAMABAD– Capital Development Authority has provided 100 saplings of Kachnar and Amaltas plants to Child Club for inculcating habit of tree plantation among young children and apprise them with the benefits of plantation.The club, established under the aegis of Society for the Protection of ...
RAWALPINDI – Women Research and Resource Centre of Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) on Monday organised a lecture on “Lets Get to Know Right to Play.” The lecture was organised in collaboration with a non-governmental organisation (NGO) Right to Play. On the occasion, Ali ...
A man shot dead 13 relatives and neighbours, including a two-year-old child, in a tiny Serbian village on Tuesday, in the country's worst killing spree in two decades.The man shot most of his victims in the head as they were sleeping before he shot and wounded himself, police said. The motive for ...
RAWALPINDI - A 7-year-old child was allegedly molested by a school watchman in Mughalabad, the limits of Police Station (PS) RA Bazaar.Police filed case against the accused, who managed to escape after committing crime, and started investigation. Police informed that a man namely Shahid, deployed ...
BAHAWALPUR - Because of alleged negligence of the doctors at Bahawal Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur, a child died leading to a protest demonstration by the deceased’s family members.The protesters blocked the Circular Road in Bahawalpur by setting fire to tyres. The road remained closed for two ...
BAHAWALPUR - Because of alleged negligence of the doctors at Bahawal Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur, a child died leading to a protest demonstration by the deceased’s family members.The protesters blocked the Circular Road in Bahawalpur by setting fire to tyres. The road remained closed for two ...
ISLAMABAD - Routine childhood vaccinations do not increase the risk of developing diabetes, according to a study of more than 700,000 Danish children.The study, led by Anders Hviid of the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, looked at all Danish children born from 1990 through 2000 and ...
ISLAMABAD - The Advisor to Prime Minister on Human Rights Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar has said that Child Rights Bill will be tabled in the National Assembly in near future that will include the legislation on internal trafficking of children, increasing the age of criminal liability from 7 to favourably ...
ISLAMABAD – Child Rights Movement Pakistan (CRMP) and Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) held a peaceful protest walk against the brutal attack on Malala Yousafzai and her friends, condemning this vicious and cowardly act of attacking an innocent child rights ...
KARACHI - Speakers at a seminar, organised to celebrate the ‘International girl child day’, on Thursday emphasised on the Sindh government to adopt a law to end child marriage, suggesting to enhance the 18 years from existing age of 16 enshrined in the ‘Child Marriage Restraint ...
Malala Yousafzai, a children rights activist and National Peace Award winner, was critically injured, along with another girl student, after a gunman fired upon her school van on Tuesday in Mingora town of district Swat.Fourteen-year-old Yousafzai hails from Mingora and is known for her outstanding ...
ISLAMABAD – Society for the protection of the rights of the child (SPARC) will soon establish Child Rights Club to encourage school children to participate in activities that promote the sprit of social responsibility and volunteering.The main objective of the club is to provide a ...
QUETTA - Two people were killed, including a child and three others wounded in two separate incidents of firing in Panjgour and Nushki districts, on Thursday.Unidentified armed assailants opened indiscriminate firing on residence of JUI-F leader Abdul Hayee with sophisticated weapons in Surdo area ...
QUETTA - A seven-year-old child sustained injuries and a house collapsed following an earthquake that jolted Sibbi around 10:50 am on Sunday. According to Met Office, the magnitude of the earthquake was reported 5.3 on the Richter scale and its epicentre was 196 km away from Khuzdar.
BAHAWALPUR - Protest erupted as a child was killed and a number of other people were injured when the Tehsil Municipal Administration, the Revenue Department and the police conducted a joint operation and demolished the homes of hundreds of people in Kachi Abadi.The child succumbed to injuries in ...
ISLAMABAD – Citizens have expressed their concern over the rising menace of child labour in twin cities, saying the ever-increasing poverty in the country is the main reason behind child labour. Citizens said it is quite surprising that child labour exists at the same rate in the ...






