KARACHI: Raising serious concerns over “flawed” policies of the Higher Education Commission, speakers at a seminar held at Karachi University on Tuesday demanded that the HEC withdraw its proposed associate degree programme and re-evaluate its policies that have largely been formulated without the consent of stakeholders...
Titled ‘Associate Degree — Challenges to University Degree Programme and Future of College/External Education’,...
Saudi police detained a young woman for violating modesty rules after she removed her abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes women are required to wear, on a main street in the capital Riyadh, local media reported on Monday...
"Police officers have detained a girl who had removed her abaya on al-Tahliya street, implementing a challenge she announced on social media several days ago," the newspaper quoted Colonel Fawaz al-Maiman,...
Saudi police detained a young woman for violating 'modesty rules' after she removed her abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes women are required to wear, on a main street in the capital Riyadh, local media reported on Monday...
"Police officers have detained a girl who had removed her abaya on al-Tahliya street, implementing a challenge she announced on social media several days ago," the newspaper quoted Colonel Fawaz...
DUBAI: Saudi women need not wear the abaya — the loose-fitting, full-length robe — a senior member of the top clerical body said, another indication of the kingdom’s efforts towards modernisation...
On his radio programme, Sheikh Abdullah al-Mutlaq, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, said Muslim women should dress modestly, but this did not necessitate wearing the abaya...
FAISALABAD: A convicted assassin deposed before the anti-terrorism court judge that he had gunned down a close associate of Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on his (minister’s) direction...
Naveed alias Commando was handed down death sentence on four counts for killing Asghar Ali alias Bhola Gujjar, an associate of Rana Sanaullah, and his driver Mohammad Siddique on Jan 8 last...
NEW DELHI: An Indian national associated with the sponsor of India's three-match ODI and T20 series in Zimbabwe's Harare was arrested for the alleged rape of a woman, Times of India reported on Sunday...
The arrested man pleaded innocence to the charge
ISLAMABAD: The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has formally conferred its associate membership on Pakistan, following completion of required internal ratification process by it...
The associate membership will open a new era of cooperation that will strengthen the long-term partnership between CERN and the Pakistani scientific community...
EDINBURGH: Saudi Arabia was unanimously elected as the International Cricket Council’s 39th Associate Member during its Full Council meeting in Edinburgh on Thursday...
The SCC’s application for Associate Membership had been pre-approved by the ICC Development Committee during its October 2015 meeting, which was followed by a full application and an ICC inspection in March 2016...
HYDERABAD: A brawl between two tour operators over some monetary issue led to shooting that left one of them wounded in the Saddar area of the city on Saturday...
Officials at the Cantonment police station said that Mohammed Farhan and Mohammed Arshad, running their respective tour agencies located within the Saddar area, had a dispute over some cheques amounting to a total of Rs1
HYDERABAD: Sarmad Ali Abro, the son of former union council nazim Mehboob Abro, has accused the police of implicating his father in another fake case because he is a close associate of Dr Zulfikar Mirza, former home minister of Sindh...
SAHIWAL: Anti-Terrorism Court Special Judge Muhammad Shabbir Hussain Awan on Tuesday handed down 10-year imprisonment and Rs200,000 fine each to Anjuman-i-Mazareen Punjab General Secretary Mehar Abdul Sattar and an Okara farms tenant, Abdul Ghafoor, in a case of firing on police during a vociferous protest...
Mr Sattar was earlier imprisoned on the basis of a case – FIR No 731/15 – the Okara Saddar police registered against him on Sept...
In her recent statement, Akram nominated 13 suspects, including her associate Amir Sohail alias Rambo, who had accompanied her to Greater Iqbal Park on the day of the incident...
Cricket’s cash-starved associate member nations fear the proposed new international revenue distribution model, which heavily favours the game’s superpowers, could potentially stall the growth of the game...
81 per cent with the rest distributed among 94 associate members...
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party on Monday made public his university degree certificates, in a bid to disprove allegations by a political opponent that he had fabricated his qualifications...
Kejriwal has not said why Modi would want to claim a fake degree but the allegations, which set off frenzied speculation on social media, struck a nerve in the prime minister's Hindu nationalist party, upset about the risk...
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court agreed on Wednesday to hear a complaint alleging that India’s education minister lied about her college degree, triggering calls for her resignation...
The petition claims Federal Education Minister Smriti Irani made contradictory declarations about her college degree in different years to electoral authorities...