PESHAWAR, June 4: As many as seven students of the University of Peshawar (UoP) have won the “Mentoring a Talent” scholarship in information technology. The seven students of Department of Computer Science were picked for the scholarship after an online test and interview arranged by the Texpo, the Microsoft certified partner, held in April this year. The students include Fawad Younas, Zulqarnain Alam, Abdu ...

CHITRAL, June 4: The members of the Gujjar ethnic community have demanded of the government to take notice of their forced eviction from Jughur village. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the leaders of the community including Sabir, Abdul Jalil and Rahmat said their forefathers had purchased agricultural land from the locals in Jughur village and they had settled there. They said now the local p ...

GILGIT, June 4: Embattled author and co-founder of the nonprofit Central Asian Institute (CAI) Greg Mortenson visited Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan on Sunday – his first trip since a controversy surrounding his book, ‘Three Cups of Tea’, broke last year. The best-selling memoir recounted how Mortenson was inspired by a group of local children to build a chain of schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Back home, a ...