Corona deaths triple since Eid
Ag APP
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: The Sindh government is mulling a complete lockdown in Karachi as the city’s hospitals are ‘nearing saturation point’, members from the provincial task force on coronavirus told The News on Thursday.
The task force’s members said the final decision to impose a lockdown in the port city would be taken in a meeting tomorrow at 11am, with Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah in the chair.
Provincial government officials told Geo News that medical experts within the task force have asked for a complete 14-day lockdown in the city. ‘Hospitals are nearing a saturation point with cases in Karachi rising rapidly,’ the task force members said, adding that the Sindh government was consulting stakeholders on the imposition of a lockdown.
Islamabad, Punjab students to resume classes from August 2
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No extension in summer vacations; Punjab schools to reopen on August 2
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Education for all
July 9, 2021
While the transgender community in the country has been given additional rights under the constitution of Pakistan since 2018, including the right to equal treatment as Pakistani citizens, the right to vote and the right to be granted jobs, they remain a community which is hugely marginalised and deprived of basic necessities. In one attempt to amend the situation, the Punjab government has begun a special programme for transgender persons, in which classes will be held for them at government schools for girls after the regular first shift in the morning. The pilot project has begun in Multan, and according to Punjab Education Minister Murad Ras will then be extended to other parts of the province. It is hoped that this will be the first step towards bringing transgender persons education and the consequent benefits they deserve.