PESHAWAR: The overall enrolment of girls in government primary schools of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has registered decrease in the academic year 2012-13, according to official data. Total enrolment in government primary schools for girls was 998,386 in 2011-12 which dropped to 997,534 in 2012-13, reveals the official data of elementary and secondary education department, available with Dawn. Dawn.
CHARSADDA: Two policemen were injured and a government primary school was blown up in separate IED blasts here on Saturday. Police said two police personnel, Rahmat Ali and FazalurRehman, were injured when their mobile van was hit by a remote controlled bomb near Pakistan Tobacco Company offices in the jurisdiction of SraDheri police station. Dawn.
PESHAWAR/MANSEHRA: Activists of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) on Saturday took out rallies in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against the killing of their leader, Maulana Shams ur Rehman Muavia, in Punjab and demanded early arrest of the killers. Dawn.
ISLAMABAD: As Nato supply was blocked by the PTI and JI, it has not only troubled the US-led forces in Afghanistan but also left an adverse impact on the business of Pakistan Army-run NLC that is the leading agency involved in transportation of US/Nato/Isaf goods from Karachi Port to Afghanistan. The News.
ISLAMABAD: Malala Yousafzai has been declared as one of the winners of the prestigious United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013. The other winners announced by the selection committee on Friday include Biram Dah Abeid, HiljmnijetaApuk, LiisaKauppinen and Khadija Ryadi, the Radio Pakistan reported. The News.
NOWSHERA: Member National Assembly and former chief minister Ameer Haider Hoti on Friday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had failed to fulfil its elections promises made with the people of Khyber Pakh-tunkhwa. The News.
BATKHELA: A school was partially damaged in a blast in Dargai in Malakand Agency on Friday, sources said. The sources said two unidentified motorcycles went to the Government Primary School for Boys in SaidaraMorr and planted explosive device.“After a while, an explosion took place. The News.
BAJAUR AGENCY – The tribesmen of Barang tehsil here on Friday expressed concern over increasing trend of issuing domicile certificates to non-residents and demanded of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor and senior officials to take serious notice into the matter. The Nation.
ISLAMABAD – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through a written reply, told the National Assembly that Pakistan had been extending full support to efforts for an Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process. The Nation.
ISLAMABAD (INP): The government on Saturday produced 14 missing persons in the Supreme Court. They were produced before Justice Amir Hani Muslim, a member of the three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry which had taken up a case relating to a missing man named Yasin Shah. The Frontier Post.
