UPPER DIR: The local residents rescued on Thursday more than 300 school children who were earlier abducted by the militants. According to sources, militants kidnapped more than 300 children at a government school in upper Dir area. The locals, after receiving the reports, reached the scene and tried to rescue them, resulting in an exchange [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 7, 2008
What Pakistani Government is doing? The President of Pakistan promulgated prevention and control of human trafficking Ordinance on 3rd October 2002 to prevent and control human trafficking to protect and assist victims of trafficking. The penalty marked out is a fine and prison sentenced of 7-10 years. Further in May 2005, the United Nations Children Fund [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 7, 2008
MIANWALI: The rescue teams recovered the eighteen bodies of school going children and driver who lost their lives in Saturday’s tragic accident. An ill-fated wagon slipped into a canal near Mianwali. Police sources told Pakistan Times that rescue operation was completed on Sunday morning around 8:30 am after the continuous efforts of 24 hours. Of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 5, 2008
NEW YORK: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in protest has rejected to appear in front of court, as the hearing adjourned till September 22, 2008. According to the details, Dr. Aafia has to appear in front of court for defending her case, rejected to appear in the front of court as protest, her lawyers said she did [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 8, 2008
NOWSHERA: Hundreds of cholera affectees from various areas of district Nowshera were admitted to various hospitals. Emergency has been announced in various hospitals of flood hit areas as cholera has become an epidemic disease in the locations and affected hundreds of people. One hundred patients were brought to various hospitals on Thursday from Azkhal and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 10, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Children’s Mountain Forum” will be held at Islamabad on the 10th of July 2008. Federal Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi will be the Chief Guest on this occasion. On the last day of National Children’s Mountain Conservation Meet “Children’s Mountain Forum” will be held at Islamabad on the 10th July. In the forum, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 9, 2008
NEW YORK: A surge in recruitment of child soldiers, the maiming and killing of children, child detention and a serious humanitarian situation are all posing major threats to children in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations envoy on children and armed conflict who recently returned from a five-day visit to the country. “The deteriorating security [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 6, 2008
KABUL: Nowhere in the world are children suffering as much as in Afghanistan, a top UN official has said. Radhika Coomaraswamy, special representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, told reporters in Kabul on 3 July that during her six-day visit to Afghanistan she had found that “it takes an Afghan child [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 26, 2008
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization which provides life-saving food in emergencies and nutritious supplements for millions of chronically malnourished people in 80 countries every year. Every day WFP distribute tones of food and other aid all over the world and have launched a global campaign aimed [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 25, 2008
ISLAMABAD: The seventh National Children’s Mountain Conservation Meet organized by Adventure Foundation Pakistan is going to be held from 1st July to 10th July 2008. This year Meet is scheduled to be held Kaghan Valley. This programme was launched on the occasion of International Year of Mountains-2002 with a view to create awareness among young [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 22, 2008
Children removing debris from a collapsed wall of their House in Kach basti near zero Point on June 22, 2008 Popularity: 8% [?]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 21, 2008
SUFFOLK: Increasing numbers of Afghan children are being smuggled into Suffolk in a disturbing off-shoot of the war on terror, it can be revealed. Desperate to flee the war-ravaged country, new figures show 23 Afghan children - some as young as 11 - were taken into care by Suffolk County Council since July last year. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 30, 2008
The UNICEF has said that an acute food crisis has endangered thousands of children suffering from malnutrition around the world. According to a report the world body said that recent food crisis has badly impinged on efforts to save lives of African children facing malnutrition. It is feared in the report that prevailing crisis could [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 19, 2008
ISLAMABAD: The UK and Australia join forces to improve mother and child health in Pakistan. The UK and Australia on signed up to a new agreement on maternal and child health that will save the lives of at least 30,000 women and 350,000 children across Pakistan. This Government of Pakistan led health plan could improve [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 5, 2008
ISLAMABAD: A three-day national polio immunization campaign begins across the country Tuesday. Over 33.6 million children under the age of five years will be administered polio drops as well as Vitamin A drops through eighty six thousand teams. Addressing the launching ceremony of the campaign in Islamabad Monday, Minister for Information and Health Sherry Rehman [...]
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
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