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Girls Dominate Top Spots In Federal Board’s HSSC Exams

ISLAMABAD: Girls made a near-clean sweep by clinching 13 of the top 15 positions in the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) Examinations 2024 conducted by the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE). According to results declared by the board at a ceremony at Islamabad College for Girls, F-11/3, 16 girls were among the 20 position holders (some of…

Education Boards Introduce New Charges For Matric Exams

New fees, and development charges cause strong backlash from parents RAWALPINDI: Amid a severe financial crisis, the education boards have introduced a “heavy fee bomb” for students taking the 9th and 10th (matriculation) annual examinations in March 2025, causing a strong backlash from parents. The boards have also introduced development…

Children In Jails

PAKISTAN’S children in prison have often been treated like adult criminals. The Sindh government’s programme to educate 4,684 children of convicted prisoners in the province is a glimmer of light in a dark space. The scheme — an initiative of the education and prisons departments and Paigham-i-Pakistan — offers complete…
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Dir Girls’ School Short Of Teachers

LOWER DIR: The elders of Nagri Bala village of Talash on 13th March said that the local primary school for girls was short of teachers. Talking to journalists in Timergara, the elders including Shakirullah, Ghaniur Rehman, Iqbal Hussain and Shah Khalid urged provincial minister for education, director of education depart…
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Special Persons To Have Access To Best Learning Facilities: Official

ISLAMABAD: Special Education Director General Asif Iqbal Bhatti on 12th March said that the National Library and Resource Centre will be turned into a hub of learning activities for special persons. He said that the facility would be equipped with Braille-based devices, Chrome books and other latest IT accessibility tools.…
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Polio Fight Is A National Responsibility, Says Minister

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Health Syed Mustafa Kamal on 12th March announced that polio eradication would be considered as a national res­ponsibility and vowed to take all possible steps during his tenure to make the country free of the virus. He expressed these views during a visit to the National…
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Sindh Education Dept To Block IDs Of 6,342 Absentee Teachers

The Sindh Education Department has decided to block the IDs of 6,342 absentee teachers. The department has also decided to take disciplinary action against them. The education department’s letter states that with reference to the summary approval of the education minister, before blocking the IDs, every absentee teacher would be…
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K-P to send Child Marriage Bill to CII

PESHAWAR: The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is set to send the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2019 to the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) for review. K-P Minister for Law Aftab Alam, an advocate, stated this on March 11 during a meeting of the Provincial Standing Committee regarding…
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Community-driven Incentives Boost Child Health In Rural Areas, Study Finds

KARACHI: A local study recently published in an international journal highlights how community-driven incentives in rural areas can significantly increase breastfeeding, immunisation, and oral rehydration rates — three critical factors directly linked to child mortality in Pakistan. Published in The Lancet Global Health, the study was conducted by researchers from…
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Swat’s Nobel Laureate Comes Home

Malala Yousafzai visits school, meets family in Shangla SHANGLA: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on March 5 visited her hometown Barkana in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Shangla district for the first time since surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012. During her visit, Malala met family members and paid respects at…
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KP Textbook Board Stopped From Executing Contracts With Publishers

PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court on 4th March temporarily stopped Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board (KPTBB) from executing profit-sharing contracts with eight private publishers for publishing of textbooks for grade 9 to 12. A bench consisting of Justice Wiqar Ahmad and Justice Sabitullah Khan issued notices to the respondents including the KPTBB…
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