PEHSAWAR - A primary school for boys and girls has been constructed with the financial assistance of the Japanese government in a village Kadam, Khyber Agency. The honorary Consul General of Japan in Peshawar Nawabzada Fazal Karim Afridi formally inaugurated the school in a ceremony held at the ...

KHYBER AGENCY - The Government Primary School Khalo Kaley, Sheikhmal Khel of Tehsil Landi Kotal is no more serving the tribal children due to lack of basic facilities, the local complained on Saturday. They regretted that last year on January 24,2012 the school was razed to the ground by unknown ...

HAFIZABAD - An influential landlord in Bhaka Bhattian has occupied the Govt Boys Primary School and converted the building into a warehouse, putting future of more than one hundred students of different villages at stake.According to villagers, local influential landlord namely Najamul Muzaffar has ...

President Zardari has signed the bill that provides for free education till matriculation as well as making education compulsory for children in 5 to 16 age bracket. This development is to be welcomed and if correctly implemented, the provisions of the bill could turn out to be an outstanding ...

The National Assembly has passed a bill envisaging free education to students up to the age of 16. Private schools would also have to admit a certain number of poor students. This ought to have been done much earlier, though if implemented strictly, it can change the society. It must be noted that ...

Anti-literacy militants blew up a government girls primary school with explosives here in Nowshera on Friday.According to details, unknown miscreants had planted two bombs in government run girls primary school located in Kaley Marrhatti area of Nowshera which went off early Friday morning.The ...

The Punjab Text Book Board authorities on Tuesday claimed that the books of primary and secondary classes would be available in the market before the new academic year which is going to start from April.  The PTBB spokesman told TheNation that more than 60 percent books of revised curriculum ...

KARACHI - At a modest ceremony held at the office of Sindh Minister for Education, Nestlé Pakistan signed an agreement with the provincial education department to rebuild a primary school located at Peerano Goth near Port Qasim Industrial area, Karachi, says a press release. The MoU was ...

NANKANA SAHIB - The district police organised a one-day refresher investigation course at the Nankana Sahib Police Lines on Friday. District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Abdul Hafeez delivered a lecture to police officers on the occasion. Nankana Sahib DPO Dr Haider Ashraf, DCO Hassan Iqbal, all ...

KARACHI - To secure market access for textile products abroad negotiation for bilateral agreements with EU and the US is actively taken up by the Ministry of Commerce as there is a ready market of our products in these regions. The statement was made by Zafar Mahmood, Secretary, Ministry of ...

KARACHI - State Bank of Pakistan has announced amendments in the rules governing Primary Dealer System in order to further rationalize and align them with current market practices. These amendments will be effective from July 2009. According to a circular issued by the State Bank of Pakistan here ...

ISLAMABAD - Despite overcrowded classrooms, lack of furniture and transportation facilities and understaffed faculty, the Ministry of Education insisted the heads of schools and colleges to ensure 100 percent enrolment at the primary level within two years. Education Secretary Jehangir Bashar ...