Islamabad, Feb 10: Minister for Education said on February 9 that the new education policy would be announced on March 23, which would help eliminate inequality in the education system. (More)
Home dept told to submit report on juvenile prisons
Karachi, Jan 28: The Sindh High Court has asked the provincial home department to submit a report on the construction of separate prisons for juvenile offenders and the district and sessions judges to furnish information on the trial of cases under the juvenile justice system. (More)
UN warns of massive exodus
Rawalpindi, Jan 31: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has projected that the situation in Swat valley and the tribal areas would aggravate during the year, causing a fresh displacement of up to 625,000 people. (More)
Over 300 children among Gaza dead, says Unicef
January 15, JOHANNESBURG: The head of the UN children’s agency said on January 14 that more than 300 children had been killed and over 1,500 wounded in Gaza because of Israeli offensive.
Ann M. Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF, said in a statement released on Wednesday that children and their families were trapped in relentless violence.
She said children were the majority of Gaza’s population and were suffering in “a conflict which is not theirs.”
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross said the humanitarian situation in Gaza was shocking.
“I saw this dramatic humanitarian situation. There are an increasing number of women and children being wounded and going to hospitals,” Jakob Kellenberger was quoted in Jerusalem. He said medical supplies are holding up in Gaza, where over 1,000 people have been killed in heavy fighting and aerial bombardments since the Dec 27 launch of the Israeli offensive.
OK for 10-year-old girls to marry, says Saudi grand mufti
January 15: RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s senior-most cleric said girls as young as 10-years old can be married, local media reported on Wednesday. Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh said in a speech that Islamic sharia law allows the practice of pre-teen girls getting married, and that critics of the practice were doing the girls ‘an injustice’, reports said. “We hear often in the media about the marriage of minors. We must know that sharia law is not unjust for women,” the cleric was quoted as saying. Afp
