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Aga Khan arrives in Kyrgyzstan to open new varsity campus

BISHKEK: Prince Karim Aga Khan arrived in Kyrgyzstan on Monday evening, ahead of the inauguration of the University of Central Asia’s Naryn campus. He was accompanied by Prince Aly Muhammad.  Elvira Sarieva, Minister of Science and Education, received the Aga Khan on behalf of the Kyrgyz government. Aga Khan Development Network Resident Representative for Kyrgyzstan […]

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Rural women burdened with unpaid productive, reproductive & domestic labour

Speaking on the occasion, Chairman CHEPS Rehmat Ali Jaffar Dost said that, “Pakistani rural women suffer triple burden of unpaid productive, reproductive and domestic labour. Their production labour is uncounted in GDP statistics. Women farm workers are not registered as formal labourers and are thus ineligible for social security, workers’ welfare benefits, health, education and

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Tehreek-e-Huqooq elects office-bearers in first election

A large number of people from lower and upper Chitral took part in the election held at Mukhtar House in Booni. Other new office-bearers elected are: Mir Ayub, the patron-in-chief, Abdul Wali Khan Advocate, vice-president; and Ishtiaq Ahmed, information secretary. Speaking on the occasion, Rehmat Salam briefed the participants about the working of the Tehreek

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Women writers asked to play role in promotion of Khowar language

CHITRAL: Speakers at a ceremony here asked women writers to play their role in promotion of Khowar language. Tehsil Nazim Chitral Maulana Muhammad Ilyas was chief guest while the ceremony was  presided over by Professor Dr Badshah Muner Bukhari, the director of the Urdu Department at Peshawar University. Addressing the ceremony, Iqraruddin Khisro said KAQ

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