<!– –> <!– Change Voice –> How many Afghan students are there in Sindh schools? Data request Karachi: Sindh education department under education in schools Afghan Children’s data has been requested. According to the details, Director Schools Yar Mohammad Bilidi has directed to collect the data of Afghan students in government schools. In this regard,…
—File photo Polio virus has been confirmed in one of the samples taken from 3 areas of Rawalpindi city of Punjab province. According to the Health Department, the samples for the polio test were taken from Sarai Kala, Dhok Dalal and Rawalpindi City. The health department has confirmed polio virus in a sample from Dhok…
That’s the message from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which appealed on Wednesday for $19 million to provide emergency food assistance to those “in desperate need” in the country’s western Herat province. The agency’s deputy director in Afghanistan Ana Maria Salhuana stressed that to assist earthquake survivors WFP “is having to take this food…
Persons with disabilities face a “shocking lack of support” with no progress in the last decade, despite a huge increase in climate disasters worldwide, the new UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) report states, and that lack of progress could be a violation of international law. Persons with disabilities make up 16 per cent…
Over 120,000 people have been internally displaced in Gaza due to concerns over their protection and the destruction of homes, said UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, speaking in New York. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, is sheltering roughly 137,000 people in 83 of its schools across the Gaza Strip. Six health…
Amid a “severe humanitarian crisis”, Afghanistan currently faces several human rights challenges, particularly for women and girls, according to the UN. Pakistan’s new plans would have “serious implications” for all who have been forced to leave the country and may face serious protection risks upon their return, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and the International…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep concerns for the civilian population, urging maximum restraint and that “all diplomatic efforts” are made “to avoid a wider conflagration”. Dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries continued to be reported during the day, including from rocket fire by Palestinian militants in Israeli cities and Israel’s airstrike response in the…
—File photo Polio virus has been confirmed once again in the environmental samples of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. According to the federal authorities, the polio virus has been confirmed in the sewage water of Peshawar’s Shaheen Muslim Town. Polio virus has been found in 13 environmental samples in Peshawar so far this year. According to…
Having previously endured conflict in Afghanistan, Ali comprehended the far-reaching implications of large-scale military actions on the lives of civilians. Immediately after the start of the Ukraine war, Ali and his wife, the owners of a small clothing store in Odessa, began to engage in relief work and donate clothes to people who had been…
A new report by UNAMA’s Human Rights Service has documented over 1,600 cases of human rights violations including torture, committed by the de facto authorities across the country during the arrest and detention of individuals from 1 January 2022 to 31 July this year. Commenting on the findings, UN rights chief Volker Türk described as…
