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Enhanced Form B Introduced With Security Features For Children Aged 10+

ISLAMABAD: On the instructions of Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, it was decided on 01-January-2025 to introduce Form B with special security features for children above the age of 10 for the first time in history. As part of these new security features, fingerprints and photographs of children aged 10 and above will now be mandatory for Form B. The issuance…

New Climate Change Education Programme Launched In Pakistan

Islamabad: The International Education group of Cambridge University Press & Assessment (Cambridge) 20-November-2024  announced the launch of a new climate literacy programme in Pakistan designed to help students develop climate awareness and become engaged in climate and sustainability issues. Education is recognised as a major strategy to mitigate climate change…

Govt School Kids Exhibit Tech Solutions

CM launches show for students from across the province LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif launched the largest government schools science and technology show in the country’s history. She visited the Government Pilot Higher Secondary School and distributed cash prizes among the winners of Jashn STEAM (science,  technology, engineering,…
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AJK PM Announces Exam Fee Exemption For Orphans

MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwar ul Haq on 11th February announced that all orphan students studying in schools and colleges across the state would be exempt from registration and examination fees of the AJK Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (AJKBISE). He made this announcement…
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Students Pick and Drop Chokes City Roads

KARACHI.  Students studying at private schools often carry a sense of superiority thanks to the abysmal condition of the country’s public education sector. However, when the absence of a school bus service encourages thousands of such students to arrive and depart in their separate vehicles like busy statesmen, the city’s…
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Sewage In 34 Cities Shows No Wild Poliovirus

ISLAMABAD: Due to high-quality polio vaccination drives conducted across the country in the past few months, the tide is turning in Pakistan’s battle against polio as environmental samples from 34 cities have tested negative for the Wild Poliovirus 1 (WPV1), indicating that the virus is no longer circulating in these…
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Ministry Plans IT Labs In More Schools

Islamabad: After installing IT labs in 50 government schools across the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training has planned to extend the initiative to 30 more educational institutions in the region within two months. An official highlighted the significant strides the ministry is making…
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From Hub Chowki to World Stage

KARACHI: In grade 4, Zunaira Qayyum Baloch, had startled senior professor Dr Hamid Ali Baloch, and assistant professor Zahir Mengal of University of Balochistan. They were speakers at an interactive reading club session, The Importance of Reading, in the School of Intensive Teaching (SIT) in Hub Chowki. “Is there anyone…
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Students Express Solidarity With Kashmiris

Participate in tableau, speech and song competitions to pay tribute ISLAMABAD. As Kashmir day approaches, Punjab Arts Council (PAC) in collaboration with APPSMA organised tableaus, Kashmiri songs and speech competitions to express solidarity with the Kashmiri people and to pay tribute to their struggle for freedom. Chief Guest of the…
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Free Meal Scheme Launched In Government School

KARACHI: The longstanding plans to introduce free meals in public schools of Sindh had remained a virtual pipe dream until now. However, students at Allama Iqbal Government Boys and Girls Primary and Secondary School, situated at the junction of Sohrab Goth and Federal B Area, have started receiving free meals…
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Vulnerable Polio Worker

It is both sad and embarrassing that on the very day the Prime Minister launched the year’s first nationwide polio campaign, a police constable on duty was shot dead in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Jamrud town. This was supposed to mark a renewed effort to eradicate a crippling disease, but instead, it exposed…
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82,000 Polio Workers To Vaccinate 10.6m Children In Sindh

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 03-February-2025 launched the February 2025 National Immunisation Days campaign by administering polio drops to children at an official ceremony at the CM House. The initiative aims to immunise over 10.6 million children under five across the province and reaffirm the provincial government’s…
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