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Father Tells Heartbreaking Story Of Losing Two Children In Swat Tragedy

MARDAN: A man from Mardan recounted the tragic incident at the Swat River last week, which claimed at least 16 lives — including his two children, 12-year-old Daniyal and 6-year-old Ishaal. Naseer Ahmed told of his ordeal as he and other people around him were helpless to pull the 17 people of two families from Sialkot and Mardan from the…

Birth Registration Of Girls Remains Low

Majority of women and girls have no legal existence in the official systems PESHAWAR: Where limited access to registration centers, particularly in remote and underserved areas, can partly explain the low birth registration rate for girls in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the social bias that confines women to the four walls of the…

Cleric Arrested For Assaulting Two Minors

PESHAWAR: Badhber police arrested a cleric on charges of assaulting two minors…

Man Commits Suicide After 11-year-old Daughter Declared Vani

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A poor man ended his life by swallowing poisonous…

Bhakkar Police Rescue Minor Girl

BHAKKAR: Police rescued a four-year-old girl who had been kidnapped from Kalurkot and taken to Lakki Marwat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. District Police Officer (DPO) Shehzad Rafiq Awan handed over the recovered child, identified as Safeena Zainab, to her parents in an emotional reunion on November 5. Police said the…

Shortage of Teachers Hampers Enrolment of Girls in Khyber

KHYBER: A long delay by the education department in addressing the shortage of female teachers in public schools is hampering enrolment of out-of-school girl students in the Khyber tribal district. Official sources in Bara and Landi Kotal said that at present, only one female teacher was available for over 100…

Lakki Girls School Reopens After Eight Years

LAKKI MARWAT: A government girls high school was reopened in the Dallokhel area here the other day after eight years of closure. A ceremony to this effect was attended among others by deputy commissioner Hamidullh Khan, district police officer Nazir Khan, district education officer Nargis Jabeen, teachers, students and their…

KP to Retain Control over Education Boards

PESHAWAR: Minister for Education Arshad Ayub Khan on November 4 said that the powers of education boards and the examination system would remain entirely under the jurisdiction of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “No decision will be made that could adversely affect the public or students,” he assured while presiding over a review…

Swat Cleric Booked for Assaulting Boy

SWAT: The police on November 4 registered a case against a cleric for allegedly assaulting a seven-year-old boy inside a mosque in the Rahimabad area of Mingora. According to Rahimabad police, the victim’s father filed an FIR, stating that his son was playing outside a mosque when the suspect, Qari…

Kohistan Girls Suffer as 60pc Schools Closed Due to Teachers Shortage

MANSEHRA: Girls in Upper Kohistan continue to suffer the consequences of government neglect as nearly 60 percent of primary and middle schools remain closed due to a shortage of teachers, absenteeism and administrative failures. “I paid a surprise visit to the office of the district education officer (women) and found…

Dengue Continues to Haunt People as Number of Cases Reaches 4,836

PESHAWAR: Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever continues to affect people amid hopes as health experts believe that decline in cases will happen only after rain when temperature will dip below 15 degrees Celsius. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday recorded 45 more dengue cases, taking the overall tally of infections in the current year…

SC Gives KP Govt Six Months More to Complete Quake-hit Schools

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on October 30 granted the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government an additional six months to implement its orders regarding the completion of reconstruction work on schools destroyed in the 2005 earthquake, directing the provincial authorities to submit a comprehensive progress report as well. A five-member constitutional bench…

Education Dept to Establish Two Centres of Excellence at District Level

PESHAWAR: The elementary and secondary education department has decided to transform two higher secondary schools each for boys and girls at district level into centres of excellence (CoEs), with the objective to provide quality education by incorporating modern teaching methods. The proposed CoEs will have well-trained faculty, advanced technology and…

School Vandalised in South Waziristan

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Unidentified armed men on Oct 29 attacked a government high school in Azam Warsak area of Lower South Waziristan’s Birmal tehsil, looting valuable equipment and damaging the building. Locals said the attackers vandalised classrooms, damaged doors, windows and boundary wall. They said the assailants entered the school early…