Learn Chinese: TEVTA to start three-month course from 24th
LAHORE: The Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) would start a Chinese language course from August 24, TEVTA chairperson Irfan Qaiser Shaikh said on Tuesday. Sheikh told a...
View ArticleOpen merit: More seats in med schools for overseas Pakistanis’ children
LAHORE: The government has converted 76 seats in public medical and dental colleges, previously reserved for foreigners on self-finance, to seats for children of overseas Pakistanis and citizens with...
View ArticleIndirect elections: PAT challenges Local Govt Ordinance
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek challenged the Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2015 in Lahore High Court on Tuesday. PAT Punjab president Basharat Aziz Jaspal filed a petition saying that Sections 2,...
View ArticlePublic Space: Report sought on consulate plan
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday sought a report until August 28 from federal and Punjab governments and the Lahore Development Authority on a petition challenging the construction of a...
View ArticleHorrific : Child raped, axed to death
FAISALABAD: A seven-year-old girl was axed after being sexually assaulted by two in a village in the Bahlak police station precincts on Tuesday. The police spokesman said two suspects, residents of...
View ArticleService Matters: 46,686 teachers to be regularized
FAISALABAD: The government has issued a notification to regularise 46,686 teachers in the Punjab recruited under the Educators’ Recruitment Policy 2011 and the Amended Recruitment Policy 2011,...
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Drawing attention: Peace linked with progress: Salim Saifullah
PESHAWAR: Senior politico and former lawmaker Salim Saifullah Khan said peace and normalcy are inextricably linked with socio-economic development. Speaking to journalists at his residence in the city...
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Breaking taboos: ‘Kasur scandal worst in history’
PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Ambassador for Street Children Reham Khan said the Kasur child pornography scandal is the worst in the history of Pakistan. She said it is shameful that some elements have...
View ArticleMedallist dedicates achievement to APS students
PESHAWAR: Eleven-year-old Nayab Bibi, who won a bronze medal at the Special Olympics, has dedicated her achievement to the victims of the Army Public School massacre and children with special needs in...
View ArticleVisit to Belarus: PM impressed by largest mining truck manufacturer
MINSK: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday visited Belaz, the world’s largest mining truck manufacturer with the latest model capable of carrying over 450 tons, and was impressed with what the...
View ArticleA third scam: Court grants 13-day remand of Ziaullah
PESHAWAR: The Ehtesab Commission obtained the 13-day remand of former mines and minerals minister Ziaullah Afridi in a third illegal mining scam. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MPA has been in custody...
View ArticleAround 3,000 army personnel deployed
PESHAWAR: Security has been tightened at Warsak Dam after intelligence agencies warned of a terrorist attack at the reservoir. A police official told The Express Tribune there were reports of...
View ArticleEx-CM’s adviser remanded
PESHAWAR: An accountability court granted the 12-day remand of the former chief minister’s adviser Syed Masoom Shah on Wednesday. The former special assistant was arrested by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s...
View ArticleApplicable to all: CGPA backs RTI Commission’s recommendations
PESHAWAR: The Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) has thrown weight behind the decision to amend the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Act 2013. This was stated in a press...
View ArticleCooperation: 20 MoUs worth $2 billion signed
KARAMAY: Pakistan and China on Wednesday signed 20 memoranda of understanding (MoU) worth $2 billion as the two-day historic moot of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Karamay-Xinjiang Forum...
View ArticleSnuffed out: Crackdown launched against drug dealers
PESHAWAR: At least four people were arrested during a crackdown against drug dealers and manufacturers in the city. Speaking to The Express Tribune, a police official said search operations have been...
View ArticleStrange logic: Books set on fire in Lower Dir
TIMERGARA: The Lower Dir education department allegedly set hundreds of books on fire at Lower Dir Education Complex in Balambat on Thursday. An official contended the books were fresh texts books of...
View ArticleVaccination: Measles campaign to begin in Khyber
JAMRUD: A 12-day measles campaign will start in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency on Monday. While talking to The Express Tribune, Dr Niaz Muhammad Afridi, the agency surgeon, stated the campaign to...
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A glass half-full
As recently as three years ago, Pakistan was being talked of in some quarters as ‘a failed state’. It isn’t and in reality has never come close to state failure in the way that some countries post-Arab...
View ArticleBack to your seats, please
The resignation of eight senators, 24 MNAs and 51 MPAs all belonging to the MQM is a seismic political event. They all tendered their resignations on August 12 in protest at what they saw as the...
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