Girls were excluded from returning to secondary school in Afghanistan on Saturday, after the country's new Taliban rulers ordered only boys and male teachers back to the classroom...
Secondary schools, with students typically between the ages of 13 and 18, are often segregated by sex in Afghanistan...
A senior UN official said on Friday the Taliban told him they will announce “very soon” that all Afghan girls will be allowed to attend secondary schools...
Unicef Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi, who visited Kabul last week, told reporters at UN headquarters that five of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces — Balkh, Jawzjan and Samangan in the northwest, Kunduz in the northeast and Urozgan in the southwest — are already allowing girls to...
LAHORE: As many as 21 higher secondary schools of the provincial metropolis have been functioning without regular principals, creating administrative and academic issues in these institutions...
The higher secondary schools are supposed to be headed by regular BS-20 principals...
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) cabinet in a meeting held on Monday approved a bill proposing primary and secondary education be made compulsory for all children between five to 16 years of age...
Following the cabinet meeting, Adviser to Chief Minister on Information Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani told reporters that under the Act, the government will be responsible for providing free education to the students and parents will have to send their...
KARACHI: The City School PAF Chapter and Habib Girls School reached the final of Karachi Girls Netball Cup 2015 here on Wednesday after overpowering their rivals in keenly contested matches...
Results: Nasra School Malir bt Aga Khan School 4-0; Nasra School Malir bt Habib Girls High School 2-0; City School PAF Chapter bt Aga Khan School 6-1; Habib Girls Second School bt City School Gulshan — walkover...
Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani on Friday announced that the resumption of school classes for students of grade six until eight, scheduled for Monday, will be delayed by a week after schools were observed not fully following coronavirus health guidelines...
Ghani said the objective behind the phase-wise approach was to not send all children back to school at once so that there was a smaller number of students in schools at a...
PESHAWAR: The health department is starting monitoring of the quality of services provided to patients at secondary healthcare facilities in the province...
Officials said that IMU briefed the director-general health services through presentations to on monthly basis regarding the performance of primary healthcare facilities with little mention of secondary services...
ISLAMABAD: The government has planned to extend its financial assistance programme for students of poor families to secondary level education...
This financial aid amounting to Rs2,000 and Rs1500 per quarter for girls and boys, respectively, is aimed at encouraging poor families to send their children to schools and prevent dropouts due to extreme poverty...
JFK sources claimed that Mr Afridi was stopped for secondary screening when he failed to satisfy immigration officials at his first screening...
“As a first-time visitor Mr Afridi was put through secondary screening briefly and was cleared in routine without any guarantees being sought or given by anyone from the Embassy or the Consulate,” the spokesperson said...
ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan on Monday said Federal Healthcare Management Authority (FHMA) would be established in the federal capital to regulate primary and secondary health system...
Dr Sultan said all basic health units of the city would be upgraded, adding that, “this is why the government has proposed a bill to set up the FHMA to regulate primary and secondary health”... ...
SWAT: Archaeologists claimed to have discovered the secondary gate of Bazira city and some unique artefacts during fresh excavation in Barikot, Swat...
Experts also find unique artefacts during fresh excavation“We discovered the secondary gate in the south-western stretch of the city wall that gave the ancient visitor access to the main street of the south-western neighbourhood of the city...
FAISALABAD: Firing was reported near a government-run girls school in Faisalabad on Friday...
The incident caused panic amongst the parents of the students who rushed to the school and tried to barge into the premises in order to evacuate their children...
The SMB Fatima Jinnah Government Girls School on Thursday inaugurated an art exhibition featuring their students' work in drawing, sketching, painting, pottery, calligraphy and crafts, along with a 'live art' booth...
To mark the 77th anniversary of the Pakistan Resolution, students at the government-run school had also created a model sculpture of the Quaid's mausoleum, along with portraits of some of the leaders of Pakistan...
An art and science exhibition organised by Karachi's Khatoon-e-Pakistan Government Girls School this weekend attracted a large number of visitors...
At the third annual Art and Science Show organised by the Zindagi Trust-run school, students showed off their artistic skills and displayed their knowledge of science through various projects and experiments, a press release issued on Saturday said...
“The budget for planting flowers in Lahore is higher than the health budget of south Punjab,” he added...