Education

Chitrali student excels in MBBS exam

Faryal Nosheen, daughter of Noor Afzal Khan, and a student of Aga Khan Higher Secondary School Kuragh, grabbed first position among Chitrali students in MBBS first year for the academic session 2017-18. According to the provisional merit list issued by the Khyber Medical University Peshawar, Ms Faryal Nosheen remains on the top. She belongs to

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Educational malpractices in Pakistan

By Ali Jibran Sadruddin The constitution of the Islamic state of Pakistan states that: “The state of Pakistan shall remove illiteracy and provide free and compulsory secondary education within minimum possible period”. Yet in the Human Development report, Pakistan is ranked at 136th position of having a literacy rate of 49.9% which shows that a

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Bottom of the class

By Irfan Husain It would take a person without a soul to be blind to the beauty of the images sent back from Saturn by the Cassini mission. The planet’s rings, first discovered by Galileo in 1610, have fascinated mankind ever since. Huygens, a Dutch astronomer, made more detailed observations in 1655, but it was

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