Pakistan

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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And the result is – zero

CHITRAL, Sept 5: All 66 students of government polytechnic college of Chitral have failed their first year examinations of diploma of associate engineering (DAE) in civil technology. The polytechnic college was inaugurated in its new building last year by Provincial Minister for Technical Education Mahmud Zeb, but later the building was handed over to Abdul

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Ismailis celebrate Imamat Day today

GILGIT/CHITRAL, July 10: The Ismaili community in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral are observing the 55th Imamat Day on Wednesday.  Prince Karim Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, ascended the Imamat on July 11, 1957, upon the death of his grandfather and the 48th Imam Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III. As usual,

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