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PESHAWAR: Even though Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) has been ravaged by terrorism and floods in the recent past, a latest report, launched on Wednesday, suggests 85 per cent of children in the province are still enrolled in schools. According to the Annual Status of Education Report 2011, only 15 per cent of children between the ages of…
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DIR: The district administration on Wednesday awarded the best performance award to the Sarhad Rural Support Programme for engaging the local communities in poverty alleviation projects. Outgoing DCO Upper Dir Ghulam Muhammad presented the award and performance shield to Noor Ajab Khan, the SRSP district manager, at a ceremony here. The DCO lauded SRSP for…
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Karachi The National Institute of Liver & Gastrointestinal Disease, which houses the public-sector’s first bleeding care unit, was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Ojha campus of Dow University. The unit has been furnished with state-of-the-art technologies, including an ICU, endoscopy suites, operation theatres, a blood bank, and labs operating round the clock. A public awareness…
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Islamabad One could well imagine how vulnerable our children are to sexual exploitation and abuse by seeing the 2.27 per cent reported increase in such cases last year. The tally of girls and boys abused in the country grew from 2,255 in 2010 to 2,303 in 2011, according to Sahil, a nongovernmental organisation working for…
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PESHAWAR: Angered by closure of primary girls schools in Peshawar’s rural areas due to unavailability of teachers, the provincial assembly’s standing committee on law reforms on Friday directed the elementary and secondary education department to post teaching staff to these educational institutions within a week. It warned that if the sought-after appointments weren’t made within…
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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to make legislation for establishing university of law in the province. A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Mian Fasihul Mulk allowed the writ petition of the Peshawar High Court Bar Association (PHCBA) about establishment of the university…
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PESHAWAR: About 196 young boys and girls hailing from different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) spoke in Urdu, English and Pashto at a talent hunt show at the Nishtar Hall on Wednesday. The aspirant artistes from Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Lakki Marwat, Charsadda, Swabi, Mardan, Nowshera, Peshawar and Fata…
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PESHAWAR: Jawad Khan, 15, spends most of his day at home in his village in the remote Battagram district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), sometimes glancing at a magazine, or occasionally helping his mother shell peas or cut up potatoes. His three younger siblings spend their day in school, and Jawad, a top student in his grade…
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The United States Agency for International Development on Monday held a stakeholders workshop under its Entrepreneurs Project where findings of a study on the embellished fabric sub-sector in Pakistan were presented to key players for review. The study was conducted in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces by entrepreneurs and their local partners. More than…
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Women teachers protest killing of colleague, seek protection KHAR, Sept 3: Women teachers held a protest demonstration here on Friday against the brutal killing of their colleague by suspected militants in the congested Civil Colony and urged the government to provide them protection. A group of over 70 female teachers for the first time in…
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PLZ WHEN THE RESULT OF ETEA TEST WILL BE ANNOUNCD FOR THE TEST HELD ON 03 JUN, 2011 AT NOWSHERA