Powerful blast rips through Quetta
May 14th
QUETTA: A powerful explosion ripped through Balochistan’s provincial capital of Quetta on Monday, with casualties feared in the blast, DawnNews reported.
The explosion took place in the city’s Almo Chowk area located on Airport Road.
Initial reports suggested that several people were injured in the blast, while two people were killed in More >
two heads Baby born in private hospital Lahore pakistan
May 14th
LAHORE: A baby with two heads was born at a private hospital in the Joharabad area here.
According to the Head Doctor of the private hospital, the birth was normal and the mother is in good health.
The father of the child said he had taken his wife to government hospitals but More >
BIEK has announced Exam centre changed
May 14th
KARACHI, May 13: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi has announced that the commercial geography paper-II of the commerce group (regular candidates) originally scheduled for May 9 at the National Government College No.2, will now be held on May 24 at the Govt Degree Boys College, University Road, Gulistan-i-Jauhar.
The paper More >
KU extends MA exam form on till May 17
May 14th
KARACHI, May 13: The University of Karachi has extended the last date for the submission of forms for the upcoming MA (regular candidates) examination till May 17.
In a statement issued on Sunday, it said that candidates could submit their forms at their respective colleges with the prescribed fee of Rs2,675.
Candidates More >
Courage, confidence, and culinary arts with Ali Nusrat Hussain
May 14th
Meeting and striking up a conversation with Ali Nusrat Hussain is a moving experience. He can turn the most pessimistic of individuals into an unflinching optimist. He is a visually impaired person but that has nothing to do with his talent.
Ali was born in 1967 in Karachi. He did his More >
Student commits suicide in Satellite Town area
May 14th
RAWALPINDI, May 13: A college student shot himself dead in Satellite Town area on Sunday.
Mohammad Bilal, a second-year student at a local college killed himself by shooting with a pistol in his house.
Police said he was alone at home as his parents had gone to their native town. The motive More >
Cadet college’s completion in Choa Saidan Shah– a forlorn hope
May 14th
CHAKWAL, May 13: A mega project involving construction of a cadet college in Choa Saidan Shah which should have been completed in 2009 remains a dream, it has been learnt.
The details obtained by Dawn tell a pathetic tale. Executive Committee of the National Economic Council approved Cadet College Choa Saidan More >
Many students still without textbooks in the rural area
May 14th
ISLAMABAD, May 13: Due to non-delivery of textbooks to majority of schools, especially in the rural area of Islamabad, academic activities have not yet been started properly and the institutions are worried about holding of the exams before summer vacations.
On the other hand, the National Book Foundation (NBF), which provides More >
Hiring allowance: When it comes to teachers, The government refused to fund
May 14th
ISLAMABAD, May 13: Teachers living in rented houses in the federal capital have not been paid hiring allowance for the last over two years and there seems no solution to the issue as both the Finance Division and the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) have refused to take responsibility.
On More >
Raise money for a slum school: Novel idea
May 14th
A boy from a slum school in F-6 sector paints a T-shirt to raise funds for his institution. – Dawn
ISLAMABAD: Unfavourable circumstances had always made it difficult for the open-air school for underprivileged children in Sector F-6 to be run uninterrupted. But that was when the residents of the federal More >
B.Com. Part-ii result 2011-2012 Karachi University
May 14th
Karachi University:University of the Karachi (KU) has announced next month of june B.Com Part 2 regular examination 2011 result june, 2011. B.Com Part 2 result 2010 of Karachi University is available online at the official website of Karachi University. Karachi University announced B.Com Part 2 Result annual exams 2011.All B.Com More >
Clinical psychologists seek ‘service structure therapy’ but pledging to remain peaceful
May 14th
With doctors, nurses and paramedics already vying for service structure and pharmacists campaigning for creation of posts in public hospitals, clinical psychologists too have entered the arena, starting with demand for improving their service structure but pledging to remain peaceful.
Under the banner of Pakistan Association of Clinical Psychologists (PACP), they More >
Sunday a market committee’s sub-inspector suspended
May 14th
LAHORE, May 13: District Coordination Officer Noorul Amin Mengal suspended on Sunday a market committee’s sub-inspector from his service for making poor arrangements in the Sunday Bazaar of Tajpura.
The DCO paid surprise visits to Sunday bazaars in Islampura, Shalimar Town, Tajpura and Shadman localities and took a serious notice of More >
Student shot dead on PU campus
May 14th
LAHORE, May 13: A Punjab University Islami Jamait Tulaba office-bearer and law student was shot dead and another student injured outside Hostel No 16 of the varsity’s New Campus on Sunday.
Police said the suspects who shot Awais Aqeel, who was central area nazim of IJT, were former students of the More >
Workshop in Metro Events
May 14th
ANP meeting
MEETING of the working committee of Awami National Party will be held under chairmanship of provincial party chief Afrasiab Khattak at chief minister’s annexes at 10am.
Workshop
A TWO-DAY workshop titled ‘Bioinformatics in medicine’ will be held at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Khyber Medical University, Hayatabad, at 10am.
(Dawn)
More >(E&SE) Private schools affairs Lobby blocks formation of regulatory authority
May 14th
The Elementary and Secondary Education (E&SE) Department has apparently bowed down to influential lobby of private schools, as it has failed to take any worthwhile step for establishing a regulatory authority to check irregularities by administrations of such schools, according to officials.
They said that the department had been working on More >
Amongst parades and sports, a annual sports week
May 14th
Schoolgirls march past a gathering of guests during the annual sports day at Government Postgraduate College Gilgit. PHOTO: SHABBIR MIR/THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE
With competitions and meticulously rehearsed parades, the annual sports week at Government Postgraduate College Gilgit was the much-needed relief for the town’s residents.
More than 150 girls on Thursday participated More >
Irshad Kazmi: Visually-impaired people are discriminated against
May 14th
VIPRA proposes that if govt is unable to provide them jobs, it should provide them monthly home allowance. PHOTO: REUTERS
GILGIT: The visually-impaired people are discriminated against and are told, directly or obliquely, that they are useless. We are allowed job quotas, but only on paper; we are granted rights under the More >











