Bashir Uddin Every year on March 8th, International Women’s Day is celebrated as a call to feat women’s rights and promote gender equality. The history of celebrating this day dates back to the early 20th or late 19th century. Since then, women and young girls come out on roads and public places with slogans to […]
ISLAMABAD: The United States government on Tuesday announced 500 new scholarships for Pakistani university students from flood-affected districts to “assist them in completing their degrees”. The calamitous Pakistan floods of 2022 were the tenth most expensive climate disaster to have buffeted a nation over the last decade. The floods inflicted an estimated loss of $3 billion
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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has disposed of two petitions seeking the supply of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Lower Chitral areas after learning that the federal government had agreed to set up three LPG plants in the northern district. A high court bench consisting Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid and Justice Ijaz Afzal was told
ISLAMABAD: The National Curriculum Council (NCC) has issued no-objection certificates (NOCs) for publishing religious books for students of seven minority groups enrolled in educational institutions supervised by the federal government. After the NOCs, the National Book Foundation (NBF) will publish the books. The NCC issued the NOCs for publishing books on Hinduism, Sikhism, Christianity, Bahai,
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Irshadullah Khan PESHAWAR: A protest demonstration was held in front of Peshawar Press Club on Sunday against the alleged murder of a youth in Chitral town. The protesters suspected murder of the youth and demanded proper investigation into the case to provide justice to the family by exposing the culprits and to avoid such incidents
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