─Dawn screengrabs PESHAWAR: A local court in Chitral on Tuesday sent the principal of a private school to jail on judicial remand for assaulting minor students. Drosh police registered a first information report under the Child Protection Act against the principal of The Learners Public School, Drosh. —Screengrab The teacher, identified as Inamul Kabir, was soon arrested after a video ...

KABUL: Tribal elders have promised to fight for the reopening schools in the southeastern province of Paktika. “This is a great step to make possible to portray a spontaneous struggle of local villagers for the right of education for their children in the province,” provincial office said in a statement. Paktika people also promised to discuss the reasons behind closing ...

Once again, no Pakistani university found a mark in the top 100 of the Times Higher Education’s (THE) Asia University Rankings 2016 released on Monday. The expansion of the THE Asia university rankings to include 200 institutions, however, allowed two Pakistani universities ─ Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, and National University of Science and Technology (NUST) ─ to win places in ...

As many as 152 Afghan students will soon leave for India to pursue higher education at the Indian universities, enjoying scholarships provided by New Delhi. “India provides Afghan government 1,000 scholarships in bachelor degree, where 152 selected students including male and female will leave for India next week,” Indian Ambassador to Kabul Manpreet Vohra said Monday. He said that the ...

Baacha Khan Schools Principal’s Meeting held at BKTEF Directorate PESHAWAR: “To minimize the possibility of conflicts, it is important to provide opportunity to others to express their thoughts. This can only happen when we have firm belief that every human being has the capacity to think irrespective of creed, cast, class, race, gender, geography and language. It makes sure inclusion ...

The colonialist destroys the social fabric, the values of the society, the local human wisdom, and evolution of mind and leave behind a huge intellectual vacuum; where they can implant their stooges or lackeys and above all drill in the minds of people of colonies, that they are inferior and should accept the language, values of the superior race. Education ...

A large number of girls’ schools have been hit by terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but bad governance and cultural limitations have also played a role in the abysmal state of girls’ education in the province. According to a report by the Conflict Monitoring Center – an organization that monitors anti-state violence in South Asia – more than 758 schools have ...

“We need to continue our struggle for social transformation by implementing Critical Model of Education” “We, the adherents of the narrative of Khudai Khidmatgars, must move forward collectively and network with one other in all circumstances. As adherents of Baacha Khan’s paradigm of non-violence, it is our prime responsibility and vital duty to struggle for permeation of the narrative of ...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) have released a joint report warning that the children in Afghanistan increasingly struggle to access healthcare and education. The report ‘Education and Healthcare at Risk’ has been jointly prepared by UNAMA and UNICEF and was released today, the UN mission in Afghanistan said. According to ...

PESHAWAR: Imagine you go to a co-ed university. And one day, the administration says you are no longer allowed to communicate with your peers from the opposite sex on and off campus premises and will have to pay a fine in case you did. Wouldn’t that be a little confusing and strange? A notification issued by the University of Swat’s ...