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The Express Tribune
April 1, 2018
This sordid state of affairs has roots in poor governance as Pakistan is one of the only 12 countries of the world that spends less than two per cent of its GNP on education. The average Pakistani boy receives only five years of schooling, while the average girl just two and a half years. The UN in the yearÃâà...
Pakistan Today
April 1, 2018
ISLAMABAD: When Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to her home country after six years, she received a hero's welcome: She met with Pakistan's prime minister and delivered a nationally televised speech, according to Voice of America. But not everyone was happy with herÃâà...
New Jersey Herald
April 1, 2018
MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai returned to her hometown Saturday for the first time since receiving a gunshot wound to the head there in 2012 for her work as an advocate for young women's education. Yousafzai and her family arrived in a helicopterÃâà...
Pakistan Today
April 1, 2018
Tariq Rehman, a prominent Pakistani educationist while commenting on the abundance of hateful literature in the country's social studies textbooks, says that “textbooks in Pakistan cannot mention Hindus without calling them 'cunning', ''scheming”, 'deceptive' or something equally insulting.” In Pakistan'sÃâà...
Pakistan Today
April 1, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Innovation in education is not just important but essential in countries like Pakistan, where there is a huge number of out of school children, as Syed Muhammad Sudais, a homebound special child from Mardan, would not be able to pursue his further studies had Khyber PakhtunkhwaÃâà...
Daily Pakistan
March 31, 2018
This step will boost the education sector and put the country on the desired path of achieving sustainable development goal 4. In a country like Pakistan where education is the most neglected factor, establishing online schools isn't an idea of fairyland. The prevalent adverse conditions of education requireÃâà...
Voice of America
March 31, 2018
When Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to her home country after six years, she received a hero's welcome: She met with Pakistan's prime minister and delivered a nationally televised speech. But not everyone was happy with her return to Pakistan, the first time since aÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
March 29, 2018
Together with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam's Sami-ul-Haq and Jamaat-i-Islami's Siraj-ul-Haq, he heads the Difa-e-Pakistan Council which was formed after the NATO attack of 2011, which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at the Salala checkpoint and caused widespread anger in the country. That association lends him,Ãâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 29, 2018
As news broke about Yousafzai's arrival, many of her fellow Pakistanis welcomed her. ... Pakistani officials say they captured several suspects after the attack on Yousafzai, but the head of the Taliban in Pakistan, Mullah Fazlullah, was still on the run and believed to be hiding in neighboring Afghanistan.
ReliefWeb
March 25, 2018
The Republic of Korea has brought its support to UNESCO's Girls' Right to Education Programme in Pakistan with the signing of an agreement between UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay and the country's Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, Mr Lee Byong-hyun, on 23 March 2017.
Pakistan Today
March 12, 2018
Higher Education Working Group on Higher Education Reforms welcomed NAB's decision to investigate alleged illegal appointment of HEC chairman. The working ... Dr Mukhtar Ahmed was appointed as head of HEC in 2014, which was among some of the few prestigious posts in Pakistan. It is pertinent toÃâà...
Archinect
March 12, 2018
The Boston Architectural College Receives $489,000 Federal Grant to Strengthen Pakistani Cultural Heritage Preservation ... also traveled to Pakistan to conduct workshops for NCA students and faculty, as well as for students and faculty of other universities and institutions of higher education in Pakistan.
The News International (blog)
March 12, 2018
Islamabad: The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training has sought around Rs11.8 billion funds in the next fiscal year. According to the relevant officials, the sought-after budgetary allocations will be spent on 16 ongoing and new development projects in 2018-19. Of them, Rs6.45 billion isÃâà...
Economic Times
March 12, 2018
Meanwhile, to a separate question Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre said a policy for permanent commissioning of women officers in law and education and naval constructors' branch has been finalised. "In Navy, the policy for setting up of Permanent Commission for women officers in LawÃâà...
Times of India
March 12, 2018
Schools forcing students to participate in dances or any other "immoral activities" that are deemed irreligious would have their licenses revoked, said a government notice, reported the Pakistani newspaper. And those found violating the ban including teachers, and heads of the institutions, will face action.
Pakistan Today
March 11, 2018
RAWALPINDI: Federal Minister for Norcotics Control General (r) Salahud Din Tirmzi said that education played a vital role in economic development of the country and urged the students to get quality education so that they could contribute towards national progress and stability. Addressing the annualÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
March 9, 2018
From there, she expounded on how the cause of fighting for equal education for men and women is a global one that reaches even farther than Pakistan. "The governments need to invest more money into education. Business people, everyone who is part of society, they need to start thinking aboutÃâà...
Daily Pakistan
March 4, 2018
Pakistan and other countries have unfathomable potential but their education system hasn't been able to put them on the right track. The penetration of Internet has heralded different social and political dynamics. While the advanced nations have been reaping benefits, developing countries grapple withÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 4, 2018
Speaking at the launching ceremony, Memon announced that this new campaign would be replicated across Pakistan after the success of the pilot project in Islamabad. With the help of local educational institutions, this innovative board game would be launched in all the major cities of Pakistan, she added.
Pakistan Today
March 4, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Owing to the alleged stubbornness of the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) and Higher Education Commission's (HEC) ill-conceived moves ... Sources told Pakistan Today that the QAU was not ready to grant affiliation to the Islamabad postgraduate model colleges mainly due to the issue of feeÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 4, 2018
Feb. 12, 2018 file photo, Krishna Kumari, from the Pakistani Hindu minority, works in her office in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Pakistanis have elected Kumari on Saturday, ... Kholi, who was born and raised in a remote district, attributed her success to her parents, who encouraged her to pursue her education andÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 4, 2018
SUKKUR: School children, their parents, teachers and community members from Sukkur, Khairpur, and Jacobabad gathered at a School in Sukkur for a day packed with fun-filled activities as part of a community funfair hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). According to a pressÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 2, 2018
SUKKAR: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan and Microsoft Pakistan has decided to collaborate in a joint initiative for promoting the use of advanced Information Technology. This was decided on the 'Microsoft Academic Day' which was organized the other day at Institute of BusinessÃâà...
The Nation
March 1, 2018
Islamabad: The Government of Japan will provide a grant of 393 million JPY (approximately USD 3.5 million) to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for supporting its initiative to provide quality alternative education to out-of-school children and adolescents in Pakistan . Notes to this effect wereÃâà...
Newsweek Pakistan
March 1, 2018
As per Alif Ailaan's “The State of Education in Pakistan” report, one third of schools in the country have no water or basic sanitation or toilets. Only half of government schools have usable toilets. 77% of out-of-school Pakistani children have never been to school and, of those who have, 23% drop out.
SAMAA TV News Pakistan (blog)
March 1, 2018
Both she and her husband have prestigious jobs in US but they both completed their education from Pakistan before going abroad. ... Any Pakistani who goes abroad instantly becomes a model of civic sense as soon as he sets foot on foreign soil but most disregard all laws and regulations on their nativeÃâà...
Daily Times
March 1, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Government of Japan will provide a grant of approximately $3.5 million to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for supporting its initiative to provide quality alternative education to out-of-school children and adolescents in Pakistan. Notes to this effect were signed and exchangedÃâà...
The News International (blog)
February 28, 2018
Islamabad : Pakistan will double the number of Afghan students enrolled in its educational institutions from 3,000 to 6,000 in future providing them ... The president said he was happy to see that the Afghan students were being provided facilities and opportunities similar to Pakistani students through thisÃâà...
The Sociable
February 28, 2018
The Pakistani entrepreneurial ecosystem is one of high-energy and passion coupled with progress to be made in infrastructure, education, and poverty. ... me to Pakistan and showing me the utmost in hospitality, Momentum is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire and connect PakistaniÃâà...
UrduPoint News
February 28, 2018
Islamabad, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th Feb, 2018): Government of Japan will provide a grant of 393 million JPY (approximately USD 3.5 million) to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for supporting its initiative to provide Quality Alternative Education to out-of-school children andÃâà...
Asia Times
February 27, 2018
But Pakistan has been especially prone to armed conflict, which comes in the form of terrorism, religious militancy, ethnic separatism, and border disputes. ... The general goal of peace education in Pakistani society should be to address the root causes of social conflicts – divisions based on religion,Ãâà...
Truthdig
February 15, 2018
The session in January was the 45th held in Pakistan since 2011. So far, the CLF has reached a million children. It is now a registered company with six directors and a secretariat at the Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (“Center for Education and Consciousness,” or ITA), the parent organization under which CLFÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
December 31, 1999
Kohli's election on Saturday marks a milestone in Pakistan both as a woman — who hold about one in five parliamentary seats — and as a member of the Dalit caste, a term she rejects as derogatory. Dalits, formerly known as untouchables in the Hindu caste system, are at the bottom of the social hierarchyÃâà...
The Express Tribune
December 31, 1999
LAHORE: The opposition benches demanded the government make it mandatory for students, who go to study abroad on state's expenses, to return back to Pakistan after completing their higher education. The demand was made by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf legislator Malik Taimoor Masood in aÃâà...
