PESHAWAR: As the elementary and secondary education department is considering changing uniform in government schools, the Jamaat-i-Islami has opposed shirt and trousers for boys terming it Americanisation of education system...
Official sources told Dawn on Monday that the department recently began deliberations for changing the prevalent school uniform for boys and girls in government schools across the province...
NOWSHERA: The Jamaat-i-Islami on Tuesday threatened to begin agitation against the proposed introduction of shirt-and-trouser uniform in the province’s all government schools...
“Unfortunately, the PTI-led government has neither taken our leadership into confidence nor has it consulted it on the proposed change in school uniform...
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government may be still hesitant to decide about the uniform for the boys of government schools after sensing reservations from its conservative coalition ally Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) but young boys of Government Boys Higher Secondary School No...
1 Peshawar Cantonment recently renamed after Shaheed Mubin Shah already know what uniform suits them best...
NEW YORK: A hijab-wearing Muslim of Palestinian descent has been named the best-dressed girl at a school in New Jersey state, according to a website...
Abrar Shahin, a student of Clifton High School, sports a black skirt and skinny jeans, ankle-high boots and a cropped white blazer in her yearbook photo...
BOSTON: The Karachi Grammar School (KGS) won the best international delegation award at the Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN) 2016...
HMUN is a four-day international relations simulation for high school students held annually in downtown Boston...
The Karachi Grammar School brought home an award for Best Small Delegation after competing in this year's Harvard Model United Nations debating contest...
Thirteen students from the school, accompanied by Aysha Shiekh, a member of faculty, visited China to compete in the annual contest that took place between March 16 and March 19...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China highlighted on Wednesday the need for adopting uniform commercial codes to address customs barriers as well as tariff, information technology and freight issues in view of growing bilateral trade activities...
Instead of approaching the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) or the International Chambers of Commerce (ICC), a bilateral institution for arbitration should be...
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to apply uniform costing criteria for natural gas consumers living within a five-kilometre radius of gas fields in the four provinces without putting additional burden on provincial governments...
A government official told Dawn that the federal government initially wanted the provinces to subsidise each other, with three of the provinces mainly bearing the additional burden of Balochistan...
ISLAMABAD: After Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammad Yousaf announced enforcement of Nizam-i-Salat in the federal capital from Friday, it was later decided that its implementation would solely be on voluntarily basis...
The meeting of a committee, comprising Ulema and officials of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, was held here on Friday after prayer break in which it was decided that there would be no forced implementation...
QUETTA: Minister of State for Education and Professional Training Mohammad Baligh-ur-Rehman has said that a standardised national curriculum of Islamic studies, Pakistan studies and other important subjects will be introduced in all educational institutions in the country...
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This has been done to enforce discipline in the appointments of auditors in the financial sector and securities market and to devise uniform criteria for developing a panel of auditors for the licensed entities...
He said there should be a uniform compensation package for the countrywide police personnel...
He said unchecked cross-border movement by thousands of people on a daily basis was a permanent bother for the provincial police as the people had to come to Pakistan in connection with routine matters, especially for medical treatment, but there was no proper mechanism for permission and registration for them on Torkham border...
Although Imam of Kaaba Dr Khalid al Ghamdi had sanctified the move, imams of the mosques in Islamabad are found observing their own prayer timings 20 days after the uniform Nizam-e-Salat was introduced in the federal capital to begin with...
Initially, the government planned Islamabad magistrates should ensure the implementation of the uniform prayer but dropped the idea as the Islamabad Administration thought it beyond the capacity...
ISLAMABAD: The first monthly calendar for uniform Azan timings for sects in Islamabad has been finalised and will be released at the Faisal Mosque on Friday (today)...
In accordance with the Azaan calendar, all sects including Shia, Hanfi (both Deobandi and Barelvi) and Ahle Hadis will offer prayers at uniform timings...
ISLAMABAD: The government finally decided to take stakeholders on board 25 days after launching the uniform prayer timings system in the federal capital...
To start with, he added, there was a need to implement the uniform prayer timing system in the markets as it would be beneficial for the traders and the customers alike...