PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Wednesday said that as many as 1,000 community-based girls schools were being established throughout the province during the current year...
Mr Khattak said that Rs100 million had been allocated for the stipends of female students of middle school level to promote girls’ education and minimize dropout ratio at primary level...
PESHAWAR: The Elementary Education Foundation (EEF) has completed arrangements for opening 300 more community girls schools from the upcoming academic year commencing from April, according to sources...
With the establishment of 300 more community girls’ schools, their number would reach 1,550 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the sources said, adding that 1,250 such schools were already established by EEF...
KARACHI: As strange as it sounds, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon seems to think that free outdoor WiFi may be the answer to Karachi's many woes...
"The whole of Karachi will have access to free outdoor WiFi through street lights," Memon said during the inauguration ceremony of a sports complex in the city's Landhi neighbourhood...
KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon on Sunday said the provincial apex committee had agreed on continuing the operation against criminal elements in Karachi...
Talking to media personnel after conclusion of the apex committee meeting, Memon said the operation had significantly checked crime in the metropolis, adding that there was still a lot to achieve...
The Sindh government on Monday appointed Imran Yaqoob Minhas as the new Karachi police chief in place of Ghuman Nabi Memon, with the latter being transferred and posted to the position previously held by Minhas...
In a notification, the Sindh government stated: "Imran Yaqoob Minhas, an officer of Police Service of Pakistan (BS-21), Additional Inspector General of Police, Special Branch Sindh is transferred and posted with immediate...
Casualties are feared as a blast has been reported near Memon Mosque in Karachi's Kharadar area, according to footage shown on DawnNewsTV...
KARACHI: As Pakistan Chowk is a symbol of the city’s rich cultural and historical fabric, the inauguration of the Pakistan Chowk Community Centre (PCCC) on Wednesday was another step by concerned citizens and activists to reclaim the space long usurped by increasing violence, hoards of waste and gentrification...
With the aim to create a space that encourages engagement of the community with arts and culture, public support has been...
LONDON: The Finsbury Park mosque, which appeared on Monday to have been the target of an anti-Muslim terror attack, has fought for years to throw off its reputation as a centre for radical Islamism...
He was arrested the following year and the mosque reopened in 2005 under a new board of trustees, with a particular goal of encouraging community cohesion...
KARACHI: The Sindh government is set to take a major leap in the ongoing nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive by opening a massive facility at the Expo Centre on Sunday (today), said to be the largest in the country, where an estimated 25,000 people could be inoculated in a day with round-the-clock service to be offered to visitors registered by the federal government for the jabs...
Officials and sources said on Saturday that the...
YOU would have thought that a living Yakub Memon would worry Pakistan if he dodges the hangman’s noose in Nagpur...
Why is the Indian government looking over-eager to snuff out his life this week, on his birthday, after keeping him dangling on death row for nearly a decade?We haven’t heard from Pakistan about the Memon controversy raging in India...
PPP leader Sharjeel Memon on Saturday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court (SC) against the Sindh High Court (SHC) decision to reject his bail in a reference pertaining to the award of advertisements at 'exorbitant rates' through the abuse of his power...
The application says that Memon should be granted bail since the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) does not have any evidence against him...
THE death by hanging of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, the lone death-row convict in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, on the morning of July 30, holds a mirror to Indian democracy, political parties, and the justice system...
Take a look: Mumbai bomb plotter Yakub Memon hangedThe crime and the punishment meted out should be understood in its historical context...
KARACHI: An accountability court on Thursday called an explanation from jail superintendent of the central prison over constitution of a medical board for former provincial information minister Sharjeel Memon without permission of the court and also sought a report from the Sindh health secretary about the procedure and mechanism to provide treatment to prisoners...
The court had remanded Mr Memon and 11 others to prison last month...
ISLAMABAD: Reacting to remarks made by Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah calling Pakistan Peoples Party leader Sharjeel Memon’s arrest unjust, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal on Thursday said the arrest was made on the court’s orders...
The newly-appointed chief of the anti-graft watchdog said: “It is a wrong impression that injustice was done in the arrest...
Former Sindh information minister Sharjeel Inam Memon on Monday challenged his arrest by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) from outside the Sindh High Court on October 23 while appearing in an accountability court for a hearing...
Memon was taken into custody by a NAB team on Oct 23 after the Sindh High Court (SHC) rejected his bail plea in a corruption case pertaining to the award of advertisements at 'exorbitant rates'...