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Rescue workers in a damaged school corridor beside a sign reading Class 8th

Peshawar School Toll Reaches 35 as Families Demand Justice

Thirty-four students, most under 14, and one teacher are now reported dead. Relatives who lost several children in one family are calling for accountability.

August 14, 2026

Featured Intellectual Voices

Celebratory Gunfire Injures 94 in Karachi and Kills a Woman

Edhi Foundation puts the toll at 94 injured, including 17 children, with a woman killed in the same wave of aerial firing. Police have arrested 30 suspects across the city's eastern, western and central districts.

August 13, 2026

AflatoonAI

A Clean Needle

One hundred and twenty children infected with HIV at a state hospital. Nine dead while the case was pending. Aflatoon on what a country owes on its seventy-ninth birthday, and the cheapest thing it has failed to provide.

August 13, 2026

Sindh High Court Orders a High-Level Inquiry as Child HIV Toll at a Karachi Hospital Reaches 120

The Sindh High Court has ordered the chief secretary to constitute an empowered inquiry committee into an HIV outbreak that has infected about 120 children at a state-run hospital. Nine died while the petition was pending; two doctors and 17 nursing staff have been suspended.

July 2, 2026

Fourteen Children Killed as Roof Collapses on Lahore Tuition Centre During Repair Work

At least 14 children aged between five and sixteen were killed and eight others injured when the roof of a private tuition centre in Lahore's Kahna area collapsed on June 30, burying pupils under rubble during afternoon classes. Police have filed a criminal case against the building owners and a mason.

January 16, 2026

Featured International

Afghan mothers seek help from hospital for malnourished children

Afghan women with their children sit in the malnutrition ward of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) at a hospital in Herat, Afghanistan on January 8, 2026. — AFP HERAT: Najiba, 24, keeps an eye on her baby, Artiya, one of the estimated four million children at risk of dying of malnutrition this year in Afghanistan. After suffering a bout of pneumonia at the age of three months, Artiya’s condition worsened and his parents went from hospital to hospital trying to find help. “I wasn’t getting proper rest or good food,” affecting her ability to produce breast milk, Najiba said at the

January 13, 2026

International

More than 100 children have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire, UNICEF says

A storm hit Gaza on Tuesday, flooding tents, collapsing homes of displaced people and killing six here Mourners gather next to bodies as they attend the funeral of Palestinians who doctors say were killed after a wall collapsed in a war-damaged building on a winter’s day at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City January 13, 2026. PHOTO: REUTERS The United Nations children’s agency said on Tuesday that more than 100 children have been killed in Gaza since a ceasefire began in early October, including victims of drone and quadcopter attacks. “More than 100 children have been killed in Gaza since the

December 29, 2025

International

Nine killed, including five children, in fatal stabbing in Suriname

Police car outside a Surinamese courthouse. Surinamese journalist Mones Nazarali was arrested and charged with defamation and several other crimes on May 3, 2022. — Reuters Four of the victims are said to be the children of the stabbing themselves. A sixth child and an adult were seriously injured and are being treated in hospital. Officers shot and wounded the suspect after he attacked officers with a knife. A man stabbed to death nine people, including five children, overnight in Suriname’s capital Paramaribo, police said Sunday, adding that the suspect was wounded and arrested. The man appeared to be suffering

December 6, 2025