Posts Tagged ‘school’

Girls school blown up in DI Khan

peshawar (staff reporter)
Militants blew up a girls school with explosives in Dera Ismael Khan, destroying the building of the school, however, no human casualty was reported. According to details, a powerful bomb exploded with a big bang.  As a result, a girls primary school on Dera Sherani Road was The sources said that at least four rooms of the school were totally destroyed in the …

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CJ: ‘What is the game being played by Punjab?’

MIAN DAWOOD
LAHORE – The Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court has restrained the Punjab Government from recruiting about 30,000 Educators on a candidate’s petition, who claimed unearthing of favouritism by the School Education Department. Chief Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, hearing the case on Thursday, observed: “What is the game being played with the people of the province by …

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The irrepressible sense of humour of the Pashtuns

A TEACHER in a small private school in Peshawar recently asked her students of grade seven to run through the main headlines in the newspaper with a view to finding out some funny headlines.

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Drops full of hope

  #container{background:#666666;}   In a room full of lady health workers (LHW) and government school teachers, a training session is underway at the Karachi Police Hospital. The purpose – to train them in administering polio drops, recording results and working with parents who may refuse to get their children vaccinated or children who are not [...]

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Killing of innocent people in Karachi is a conspiracy: Altaf

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain has strongly condemned the killing of three lawyers near city courts in Karachi as a result of firing of armed assailants. Altaf Hussain expressed his grief and sorrow and said that killing of people belonging to different schools of thought was the outcome of a deep conspiracy, [...]

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India: 9 killed as bus driver runs amok on Pune streets

A government transport undertaking bus driver went berserk on crowded Pune roads early Wednesday morning, killing nine people, injuring 27 others and damaging several vehicles. Shocking incident spread panic in the city as citizens and students were on their way to offices and schools. Situation was brought under control after two hours when bus driver Santosh Maruti Mane was caught by people. …

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Five school students injured in Karachi road accident

At least five students were injured when a school van turned turtle while attempting to save a passersby here in Karachi on Wednesday.
According to police, the speedy school van overturned when driver applied brakes to save passersby who suddenly came in front of the van at Sharah-e-Pakistan near Naseerabad bus stop.
Five children in the van were injured as a result of the accident.The locals and …

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Inter Schools Soccer final

ISLAMABAD – City School A and Lahore Grammar School, Islamabad Campus set for final clash of the Margalla Festival Inter Schools Soccer Tournament to be played Saturday.

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Milk and blood

Many years ago, when Swat was still green and free from bushy warlords, I knew a middle-aged man there who was also a tracking guide. His name was Atique Ali Khan and I remember every time I used to ask him about how his two children were doing at school, he had this habit of [...]

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Nusserwanjee Park awaits completion

KARACHI, Jan 16: As part of its various community projects and going with the city government`s `adopt a park` scheme, the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture began working on Nusserwanjee Park adjacent to

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Arfa Karim laid to rest

Arfa Karim, the world’s youngest MCP, has been laid to rest in her native town here on Sunday. Earlier, her dead body was shifted to Faisalabad from Lahore after offering of funeral prayer at Cavalry Ground Lahore on Sunday Morning. In Faisalabad, Army officials, local politicians, Arfa’s class fellows and many other citizens and children of school attended her funeral prayer at D …

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She springs like a flower and withers away

LAHORE – World’s youngest IT wizard Arfa Karim Randhawa breathed her last at the Combined Military Hospital on Saturday after remaining in coma for 24 days.
Her funeral prayers will be offered today at 10am at Cavalry Ground from where her body will be taken to Faisalabad for burial at her ancestral village Chak 4, Ram Dewali.
Studying at Lahore Grammar School Paragon Campus in her …

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Expats pulling wool over officials’ eyes

WARBURTON – Eight female teachers, who were drawing their salaries without attending their respective schools, have been suspended in Nankana Sahib.
Enquiries against the teachers especially those living abroad and drawing their salaries here have been initiated by Mian Tariq Rafiq, the Executive District Officer (Education) of Nankana Sahib under the Punjab Employees Efficiency and Disciplinary …

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Want your kids to do better in school? Try exercise

Children who get more exercise also tend to do better in school, whether the exercise comes as recess, physical education classes or getting exercise on the way to school, according to an international study. The findings, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, come as US. schools in general cut physical activity time [...]

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Israelis protest against religious coercion

BEIT SHEMESH: Thousands of Israelis have gathered in a city outside Jerusalem to demonstrate against a radical Jewish sect that is trying to impose its strict lifestyle on others. The city of Beit Shemesh has been the center of a national uproar since an 8-year-old schoolgirl told a local TV station last week that she [...]

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Absence from school may hint to possible mental problems

CALIFORNIA: Students who are frequently absent from school may have face mental health problems in future, according to research results released on Tuesday. The study, which was based on some 17,000 youths and was published in the Child Development journal, shows that youths who are frequently missing from the school my have a higher prevalence [...]

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Six die in latest school bus accident in China

BEIJING: At least six people have been killed in the latest crash involving students in China when their overloaded van plunged off a mountain road, state media said Sunday. The official Xinhua News Agency said an overloaded van taking 12 students home crashed into a 195-foot (60-meter) deep valley in southwest China on Saturday. It [...]

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