A large number of students drop out of schools due to physical abuse
Hands stretched forward, ready to receive a blow on the knuckles from the teacher’s ruler or stick. Being sent to the principal’s office for caning. Forced to stand in the corner of the classroom or outside its door. Made to sit on a dustbin during class, resulting in humiliation. The images that come to mind when we mention corporal punishment at schools, vary. But for many schoolchildren in Pakistan, punishments can be much more severe even deadly.
In January 2018, a nine-year-old boy, Mohammad Hussain, was beaten to death by his madrassah teacher, Najmuddin, in Eidu Goth of Bin Qasim Town in Karachi, because the boy had escaped from the seminary.
KOHAT: The Kohat police seized 150 litres of home-made liquor and six kilogrammes of hashish in separate actions and arrested two alleged smugglers on Wednesday.
Following strict orders of district police officer Sohail Khalid to cut the supply line of drug smuggling, Saddar police SHO Afzal Awan acting on the information of district special branch stopped a pickup van at the interchange and recovered 150 litres of liquor from it, which was being smuggled out of Kohat.
According to police, the accused, Shakir, was arrested and sent behind bars after registration of a case against him.
In a similar case, the SHO of cantonment police stopped a suspicious car (J-6123-Peshawar) coming from Orakzai district at Kaghazai post.
Gas cylinder explosion in Karachi kills 3, injures 4
Blast destroyed three shops and overturned a vehicle
KARACHI:
At least three people, including a woman and two children, were killed and four others were injured in a gas cylinder explosion in a shop in the Mosmiyat area of Karachi on Wednesday.
According to reports, the blast was so severe that it destroyed three shops and overturned a vehicle, injuring its driver, who is reportedly in critical condition.
Security forces had cordoned off the area and the injured have been shifted to a local hospital.
The deceased have been identified as Saeeda Ali, 32, Fatima Ali, 4, and Abdullah, 2. The woman came with her children to visit her brother, whose house is above the shop where the explosion took place.
Shortage of public libraries in Saddar and Lyari undermining youth’s yearning for learning
Karachi
April 5, 2021
Until a few years ago, Karachi’s Lyari Town was known largely for violent gangs openly operating on the roads and in the streets. But now the local and non-local youth are pursuing good education there to transform the town into a hub of knowledge.
Colleges and universities teaching medical, art and science courses have been offering admissions in large-scale educational programmes, motivating the youth to gain knowledge for a bright future. But there’s an acute shortage of public libraries in Lyari, barring the students’ access to expensive courses and textbooks.