BEIJING : One of China’s most famous movie directors is facing a $26 million fine for having seven children in violation of China’s strict family planning laws, media reports said Thursday. Zhang Yimou, the maker of “Raise the Red Lantern” and “Red Sorghum”, is ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Ombudsman M Salman Faruqui on Wednesday appointed Ejaz Ahmad Qureshi, former federal secretary and chief secretary Sindh and KPK, as Commissioner for Children in Wafaqi Mohtasib Secretariat.Qureshi will act as National Commissioner to deal with not only individual complaints of ...

ISLAMABAD The two-day 6th Children's Literature Festival (CLF) in Pakistan will be held on May 24-25, 2013 at Pak- China Friendship Centre.Ameena Saiyid of Oxford University Press (OUP), Bela Raza Jamil of Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) and Nargis Sultana of Foundation Open Society Institute (FOSI) ...

HANOI - Two children were killed and six others seriously injured after a grenade left over from the Vietnam War exploded while they were playing with it, police said Wednesday.The children, all 11-year-old classmates, were walking home from school in southern Dak Nong province on Tuesday when they ...

MOTHESE schoolchildren in southern China are so keen to get to school that they make the perilous journey on narrow wooden ladders every day, with no safety precautions.Their village in the remote Badagong mountains in Sangzhi county is surrounded by sheer drops on every side, making the school run ...

LAKKI MARWAT - Local Government and Rural Development Department Assistant Director Syed Khalid Israr Shah launched the enrolment drive of five- year-old children in the schools at a function in Government Primary School No. 2, Meenakhel (Mandar) on Monday.He put his signatures on the admission ...

LAHORE - Chairperson, PPP (Shaheed Bhutto Group), Ghinwa Bhutto on Sunday announced to field 160 candidates on national and provincial seats sans her daughter Fatmia Bhutto. Addressing a news conference at Press Club, she said her party would not make an alliance with any of the political parties. ...

DAMASCUS - Airstrikes by regime warplanes killed at least 12 children in two incidents on Sunday, one targeting a Kurdish village in northeast Syria and the other a district of Damascus, a watchdog said.Elsewhere, activists accused the regime of destroying the minaret of the historic Omari mosque ...

At least 46 new cases of measles were reported in various hospitals in Lahore on Monday.According to hospital sources, dozens of children affected by the disease have been admitted in various hospitals of the city.Sources said 16 affectees, aged between 6 to 8 years, were admitted in Children ...

KARACHI - A staggering two million child deaths can be prevented every year if developing countries including Pakistan focuses on fighting pneumonia and diarrhoea, said the WHO and UNICEF officials.They were addressing at the launch of newly-integrated Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control ...

Four children died after they suffered from measles in Lahore’s Mayo Hospital here on Saturday.According to hospital sources, four children who belonged to Baghbanpura, Ravi Road and Malipura localities of Lahore succumbed to measles in Mayo Hospital. The victims included Amanullah, Imran, ...

ISLAMABAD - Every year April 12 is observed as International Day for Street Children providing a platform for the millions of street children around the world and their champions to speak out for their rights. The International Day for Street Children was launched in 2011 by the Consortium for ...

SHIGAL, Afghanistan  - Eleven children and a woman were killed by an air strike during a Nato operation targeting Taliban commanders in eastern Afghanistan, officials in the region said Sunday.Civilian deaths have been a long-running source of friction between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and ...

KARACHI – A man threw acid on his wife, three children and other relatives over a petty issue at Nusrat Bhutto Colony within the remits of Shahrah-e-Noorjahan police station.Police said that Asghar Ali scuffled with his wife Ruqqaiya over some petty issue. He got infuriated and threw acid and ...

KARACHI – A man threw acid on his wife, three children and other relatives over a petty issue at Nusrat Bhutto Colony within the remits of Shahrah-e-Noorjahan police station.Police said that Asghar Ali scuffled with his wife Ruqqaiya over some petty issue. He got infuriated and threw acid and ...

A NATO air attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 10 children, officials said Sunday.The children were killed during a joint Afghan-NATO operation in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province bordering Pakistan late on Saturday."Ten children and eight militants were killed in the ...

Opponents of drone attacks on foreign lands kicked off a month-long campaign aimed at putting a stop to them when a fairly large number of old women gathered at New York on Thursday to protest, carrying placards that read: “Drones fly, children die”. The organisers intend staging ...

A drug addict man has splashed acid on his wife and three children in Nusrat Bhutto Colony area of Karachi.According to police, Anwar Ali, a drug addict, threw acid on his family members after a quarrel with his wife over some issue on late Friday night.The burnt wife and children were shifted to ...

ISLAMABAD - Most parents and teachers are reluctant to discuss sensitive issues with children and inform them about the physical and emotional aspects of puberty, which pushes them to seek information from unreliable sources and exposes them to exploitation.This finding was derived from a baseline ...

Gunmen on Saturday hurled a firecracker and opened fire at a primary school in Karachi, killing its principal and wounding eight children, police said.The children were aged between five and ten while the headmaster was a member of the Awami National Party, which consists mainly of ethnic Pashtun ...

LAHORE – Two children went missing after a Metro bus driver refused to stop the coach on the request of their father, passengers said on Tuesday. Sources in police said Saeed Ahmed, a resident of Shahdara, took his children – Abdullah, Momin, and Maham – to a recreation trip on ...

LAHORE (ASHRAF JAVED ) – Four children of a family burnt alive when a wooden cottage, they were residing in, caught fire in the Sabzazar police area on Tuesday night, rescue workers said. “The fire erupted in the hut after a burning candle fell on the quilt. The kids were sleeping in ...

It is very disappointing to see that the education system of district Mirpurkhas has completely collapsed. Mirpurkhas is the fourth largest city of Sindh but still it lacks a good educational institution where parents could send their children with confidence that they would come out well versed in ...

KANDHKOT - Two more children died of measles at Tangwani near here on Sunday. The deceased were identified as two years old Shahid and five years old Jameel. Citizens have expressed serious concern on continued measles deaths and demanded of the government to control the epidemic.Poisonous meal ...

The deadly measles outbreak on Monday left at least four more children dead in Kandhkot, mounting the death toll to 459 across the country, including 429 in Sindh.According to reports gathered from different parts of Sindh, four children died in Kandhkot during the last 24 hours, rising the overall ...

LONDON (BBC)Some young children accurately diagnosed as autistic lose their symptoms and their diagnosis as they get older, say US researchers. The findings of the National Institutes of Health study of 112 children appears to challenge the widely held belief that autism is a lifelong condition. ...

Last week, I wrote about the unfinished story of women’s emancipation in the West and certainly in Pakistan. A young Pakistani friend told me that he thought that women are likely to be in majority in jobs, including in decision-making jobs, in the course of a generation or so, or by 2050, as ...

QUETTA - After playing havoc in Sindh, now the measles outbreak is hitting parts of Balochistan, as two more children died of this viral disease and several other children were infected in the province after measles outbreak in different areas, increasing the death toll to 12.This fatal disease is ...

QUETTA - At least three children of a family were killed due to measles in Pishin district, some 40 kilometers away from the provincial capital after the disease broke out in different areas of the district, on Friday.According to reports, three children of Ghulam Mustafa, including 4-year-old Bibi ...

It is very disappointing to see that the education system of district Mirpurkhas has completely ruined. Mirpurkhas is the fourth largest city of Sindh but still it lacks a good educational institution where parents could send their children with confidence that they would come out well versed in ...