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Call to restore past glory of Silk Route

MANSEHRA, Sept 5: Speakers at a conference here on Wednesday stressed the need for restoring the past glory of Silk Route to bring educational revolution in the country. There were about 1,700 universities between Taxila and northern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on that route in the ancient times, they said. The three-day international conference titled Rediscovering […]

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Next stop – Tajikistan

KABUL: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to extend the scope of their transit trade agreement to include Tajikistan as part of the overall effort to promote regional economic cooperation. A joint statement, issued simultaneously from Kabul and Islamabad at the culmination of talks between Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and President Hamid Karzai, said the

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Governor Pir Karam hospitalized

GILGIT: Governor Gilgit-Baltistan Syed Pir Karam Ali Shah has been admitted to the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, said a press release issued from  the governor secretariat here.  “He is in a good state of health and hospitalized for proper check-up and complete examination,” the press release said. It added that the governor went

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