KARACHI: The British Council is investigating a breach in the exam papers of Cambridge O’level and Cambridge IGCSE Pakistan Studies and Islamiat in Pakistan. According to the British Council, students would be required to take new examinations...
Anum Fatima, a resident Ibrahim Goth slum located near Karachi's Steel Town, is making history; she is going to Harvard Business School this summer as part of a student exchange program. Anum's father is employed as a driver and her mother works...
Islamabad: Muhammad Bilal Bhutto, a class 10th student from PakTurk Khairpur bagged forth position worldwide and got Honorable Mention Award in the International Sustainable World Energy Environment Engineering Project Olympiad (I-SWEEEP 2013) hel...
KARACHI: Educational departments in Sindh and Punjab have announced summer vacations for 2013, media reported Thursday. According to Sindh Education Secretary summer vacations would start from June 14 till August 13. The Punjab government ann...
The first female pilot of Afghanistan to be trained inside the country earned her flying wing on Tuesday after graduating from Undergraduate Pilot Training. 2nd Lieutenant Niloofar Rahmani, is the first female pilot to be trained in Afghan Air ...
KARACHI: University of Karachi here Tuesday announced that the ongoing semester would end on May 18, 2013 and the semester examinations would start from May 20. Earlier, the exams were to start from May 06, which would now start from 20th May....
Afghan Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) will train 50,000 staff in Information Technology for three years, with funding from the World Bank. At the graduation ceremony of 150 students who were trained in IT section, the m...
London: Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie and established best-seller Zadie Smith have been named to Granta magazine’s list of best young British novelists – a once-a-decade roster with a reputation for predicting literary stars. The lineup of 20 w...
QUETTA: Institute of Social and Policy Science (I-SAP) has revealed in its report that about 0.58 million children do not go to school in Balochistan province. Speaking in All Parties Consultation Meeting on Condition of Education in Balochistan held...
QALA-I-GUDAR: At a school in a bombed-out Afghan village near Kabul, Angelina Jolie is known as an aid worker or engineer -- never as one of the world's most famous film stars. Jolie, a special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, built th...
KABUL: Confucius Institute of Kabul University re-opened Sunday after a halt of one year and a half since October 2010, marking the enhanced Sino-Afghan cultural exchanges. Addressing the re-opening ceremony, Xu Feihong, Chinese Ambassador to Afgha...
NEW DELHI: Salamat International Campus for Advanced Studies (SICAS), visiting Delhi from Lahore won the first 'India-Pakistan School Debate' beating home team, La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata, by arguing more successfully 'why free trade between Ind...
KARACHI: The examinations of class IX and X (Secondary School Examination (SSC) are starting in Sindh province from today (Monday), April 8 and the government has imposed Section 144 at all exam centers, besides instructing police to ensure foolproof...
KABUL: Despite economic problems and traditional barriers, more and more Afghan girls are now attending classes in their villages to secure their future. "I am very happy to get education and attend classes in my village," Najiba, 13, said when Xin...
NEW YORK: Malala Yousafzai announced at the Women in the World Summit in New York City the first grant from the Malala Fund. It was raised with the support of Vital Voices, Angelina Jolie and the Women in the World Foundation. The grant will support ...
BEIJING: U.S. Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie confirmed on Monday that she has opened an all-girls school in Afghanistan, according to eonline. Jolie, the goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has fun...
ISLAMABAD: More than half of young Pakistanis believe democracy has not been good for their country and nearly 40 percent are in favour of having Islamic sharia rule, according to a survey published Wednesday. Pakistan goes to the polls in a historic...
WASHINGTON: Most American teenagers use their phones to access the Internet, with one-fourth of them going online mostly on their mobile device, a survey showed Wednesday. Some 78 percent of US teens have a cell phone, and 47 percent of those own sma...
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly of Pakistan has approved a bill prohibiting corporal punishment of children. The bill was tabled by Dr Atia Inayatullah which was approved with consensus in the National Assembly. Under the bill any form of corporal p...
PESHAWAR: The Laptop distribution ceremony for the BS four years degree program students of six departments and colleges of University of Peshawar will be held on Tuesday, said a spokesman for the varsity. The departments are Disaster Preparedness an...
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Afghans Say New Bodies Have Been Found Near a Former U.S. Base
Kabul, Afghanistan: Soon after family members found what they believe ...
US: Taliban Inflicting Heavy Losses on Afghan Troops
BRUSSELS: The U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Joseph Dunford, ...
Growing Up An Afghan Warlord's Son
Renee Montagne recently returned from a reporting trip to Afghanistan....
Afghan interpreters' UK resettlement package 'completely inadequate'
Package announced by defense secretary Philip Hammond attacked for exp...
US, Germany, Italy vow key Afghan roles post-2014
BRUSSELS: Germany and Italy will join the United States as "lead nati...
Soldier pleads guilty in massacre of 16 Afghans
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash: The American soldier accused of killin...
Coalition Deliberates Afghan Presence
Brussels: The top commander of the U.S.-led military coalition in Afg...
In Afghanistan, grief for a husband who shouldn't have died
Khosh Gombat, Afghanistan: Whenever Bibi Laila heard the all-too-fami...
