RAMAZAN of 1947 also fell in the long and thirsty days of the subcontinental summer...
The collective act of fasting paralleled at the time the collective act of waiting, the patient longing for dusk, a metaphor for the collective longing for a country, for the creation of Pakistan...
The Ramazan of 1947 was also hot and humid...
Shouldn’t be we ashamed that even after 68 years of independence we are unable to provide electricity and water to our people? Shouldn’t we be ashamed that more than half of our population has no access to potable water and sanitation? Shouldn’t we be ashamed that millions of our children don’t go to schools and most of the schools in rural areas are without teachers, roofs, furniture,...
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed the federal government to submit details of Toshakhana gifts received by political rulers and bureaucrats from foreign dignitaries since the creation of Pakistan...
The court directed the government to submit the details by January 16 and also sought records pertaining to the purchase of these assets since 1947...
Sindh Education Minister Jam Mehtab on Wednesday confessed that the provincial government was unsuccessful in achieving the goals that it had set for itself in the education sector...
"I'll be honest: I could not bring about the reforms I wanted to introduce in the province's education sector," Mehtab said in an interview with DawnNews...
ISLAMABAD: The government will not cut the higher education’s budget for fiscal year 2022-23...
This was pointed out by Minister for Education Rana Tanvir Hussain and Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal as they reassured heads of public-sector universities that there would be no cut in budget for education...
Acting Afghan Higher Education Minister Abdul Baqi Haqqani on Monday began talks in Pakistan on possible cooperation between the two countries in the fields of education and research...
The minister is leading a delegation that arrived in Pakistan on Sunday amid calls for reopening educational institutions for girls in Afghanistan...
KARACHI: After the posts of secretary and special secretary education and literacy, the school education and literacy department of the government of Sindh will now create a new post of ‘secretary primary education’...
This was said by Minister for Education and Literacy, Sindh, Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar during his speech at a provincial consultation on the National Education Policy 2017 held by the Reform Support Unit with the support...
HYDERABAD: Women were among a number of primary school teachers who staged a protest sit-in under the banner of the All Sindh Primary Teachers’ Association (SPTA) on Monday at the Hyderabad bypass for some hours while pressing the Sindh government to remove the provincial education minister and implement their charter of demands forthwith...
Carrying banners and placards, office-bearers and members of the SPTA raised vociferous...
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...
GUJAR KHAN: All schools and colleges in Punjab have been instructed not to arrange anti-dengue spray on their own, without first obtaining approval from district health authorities, Punjab Education Minister Rana Mashood said on Monday...
The minister was inquiring after the health of schoolgirls still undergoing treatment at the Jhelum District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) after inhaling the toxic fumes of the anti-dengue spray,...
ISLAMABAD: Speaking at a seminar on the importance of education, State Minister for Federal Education Balighur Rehman said that the percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) spent on education is half of what it should be by international standards, but increasing the percentage is incredibly challenging in Pakistan, where the tax to GDP ratio is 9...
The seminar, titled ‘Education for All’, took place at the Pakistan Institute...
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday promised to overhaul the public education system through unprecedented measures aimed at reforming the system...
According to his envisioned plan, the Sindh government will work to improve teaching skills, make education totally free, develop a high quality curriculum and offer stipends to girl students...
Sindh Minister of Education and Literacy Syed Sardar Ali Shah on Monday terminated a government college clerk in Matiari for misbehaving with the father of a girl seeking admission at the college...
After an exchange of hot words, the father was seen touching the clerk's feet, "begging to secure his daughter's future," said DawnNewsTVThe Sindh education minister took notice of the video and summoned the clerk and the father to his...
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Friday unveiled its five-year programme, titled ‘The New Deal 2023’, to transform school education with a focus on learning, access and equity and governance...
Punjab Minister for Schools Education Dr Murad Raas and Information and Culture Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan jointly held a press conference at the Directorate General Public Relations to shed light on the 100-day achievements of the school...
PESHAWAR: Akbar Ayub Khan, who was previously a minister for communications and works in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet and who was appointed provincial minister for elementary and secondary education in a reshuffle on Saturday, has turned out to be a matriculate...
Mr Khan served as the communication and works minister in Chief Minister Mehmood Khan’s cabinet for one-and-a-half years...