Quetta – Special anti-corruption court in Quetta has sentenced two employees of National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) Kashmore office 21 years behind bars, on Wednesday. Court headed by Judge Munir Ahmad Marri found deputy manager NADRA Manzoor Osto and Data entry operator Allah Baksh guilty of issuing illegal Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) to Afghan refugees in Quetta. Both culprits ...

Agha Mohsin Ali Pakistan has made significant progress in implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in the past two decades. To understand what has been achieved and the remaining and emerging challenges, let us walk through the CRC’s history in Pakistan. The UNCRC was ratified by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 12 December, 1990. At ...

Quetta – Shayhaq Baloch, a student of University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore has been awarded Gold medal in Civil Engineering department, on Tuesday. Shayhaq Baloch was enrolled in 2010 batch of Civil Engineering in UET Lahore which is the one of oldest engineering universities in the country. Gold Medalist student was born in Kalatuk area of Kech district ...

Mir Behram Baloch Islamabad – AGAHI in collaboration with UNESCO Pakistan organized a town-hall dialogue on ‘Media and Information Literacy and Education Journalism in Pakistan’ today at the Islamabad, Marriott Hotel. Ms. Puruesh Chaudhry, Founder & President AGAHI, encouraged the stakeholders to review policy gaps and devise sustainable interventions that improve the quality of lives and empowers society to move ...

Aziz Ejaz Importance of literature cannot be ignored in the development of any society. Literature gives birth to the most sensitive individuals and writers that contribute in shaping up norms and values of the society. It’s unimaginable for any society to sustain itself without presence of literature. If we take a look at French, Cuban, Russian, and American and other ...

Adnan Aamir The government educational institutes in Balochistan have failed to impart quality education. Consequently, private schools have been established to fill the vacuum. These private schools, to some extent, are doing a good job by providing quality education which is unthinkable for government schools. In absence of regulatory framework, the private education sector in Balochistan, like the rest of ...

Quetta – In a highly questionable move, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has banned WordPress.com in Pakistan, on Sunday. WordPress.com is the largest blog hosting website in the world with millions of users. It’s the most common platform used by Pakistani bloggers. PTA was granted with the powers to manage internet content by Prime Minister few days back. The first major ...

Agha Mohsin Ali The complexity and interconnectedness of today’s globalised world have rendered development challenges increasingly interlinked and global in nature. Prosperity cannot be sustained without finding integrated and common solutions and without the contribution of all countries in a spirit of solidarity and shared responsibility. The post-2015 agenda has framed sustainable development as a universal project. On one hand, ...

Sami Parvez Government schools of Balochistan are considered to be imparting poor quality of education. That’s true to some extent but the role of these schools in producing numerous talented people can’t be ignored. Several students who have studied in government schools are today serving as famous doctors, engineers, professors, journalist, businessmen and many more. In addition to that, students ...

Bahram Sayad Quetta – Armed militants attacked convoy of a Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kharan and killed two of his guards in Balochistan’s district Kharan on Friday. A Levies official, named Dawood Khan reported that convoy of the DC Kharan, Raziq Dilawary, was attacked in Rachil area of the district. “Two levies personnel were killed and another two sustained bullet wounds ...