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Kalash children rally for education

KALASH, Sept 20: To increase enrollment ratio in the government primary schools of Kalash valleys, an education rally was held by the students of Kalasha primary schools and Alif Ailaan (Transforming Education Pakistan). The students from Kalasha Dur Private Institute of Kalasha tradition and Kalasha primary school Mumuret (Bumborate) were carrying banners and placards inscribed with […]

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Sectarian attack on Ghizer road feared

GILGIT: The interior ministry has sent a ‘threat alert’ to the Gilgit-Baltistan government, asking it to beef up security along the main road linking Gilgit with Ghizer Valley. “Terrorists can attack passenger vehicles on the road,” read a letter received by the GB government. It added security on the road should be increased to ensure

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APC: Peace consensus or sell-out?

THE resolution emanating from Monday’s all-parties conference seems more of a document of surrender than an expression of a nation’s resolve to fight terrorism. It attributes the loss of thousands of innocent lives not to the militant violence but to the “war, the illegal and immoral drone strikes and the blowback from the actions of

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US prevented disclosure of Pakistan\’s rights abuses

US intelligence reports said senior Pakistani military and intelligence officials knew of and possibly ordered a broad campaign of extrajudicial killings of militants and other adversaries,  The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, adding that public disclosure of such information could have forced the Obama administration to sever aid to the Pakistani armed forces on account

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Shams Lakha tipped as new HEC chairman

ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: Former president of Aga Khan University, Shams Kassim-Lakha has been tipped as the Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman. Lakha has served extensively in the education sector, including the role of caretaker minister for science and technology. Moreover, the PPP had also suggested him as a caretaker prime minister earlier in the year.

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