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Corporal punishment: Accused of theft, seminary boy tortured by his teacher
Father pardons the perpetrator on request of a local jirga; rights activist calls for probe.
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Pre-budget workshop: Impartiality in budget allocation stressed
Say it has created a sense of alienation among districts.
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Inflicting humiliation: Student made to beg for failing to pay school fee
Victim’s mother lodges complaint against teacher and DCO.
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For students in Kakotri village, school is the most dangerous place
The only higher secondary school in the village is dilapidated, lacks basic facilities.
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Honour-killing: Woman killed by family for affair with father-in-law
Killing was ordered by a jirga; family secretly buried body in local graveyard.
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Behind bars: Majority of detainees tortured in custody, says report
Rights activists call for concerted efforts; demand criminalisation of custodial torture under UNCAT.
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Beating as one: Newborn twins share same heart
Head of the gynaecology ward says twins’ other vital organs are all separate.
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Theft or political wrangling?: Fixtures, fittings at Kalinjar’s only high school ‘vanish’
The school was built in 2007 at a cost of Rs4.7 million but still hasn’t been used for its purpose.
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Curtailing ‘immodesty’: Ex-lawmaker ‘decrees’ against female education
Says education leads to immodesty; rails against female NGO workers.
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Kohistan crash: Bus falls onto roof of house, 16 dead
Eight security personnel, 2 policemen among victims.