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Irshadullah Khan Khan  PESHAWAR: Despite the provincial government’s promise to provide free textbooks to students on time, the process has been delayed due to a dispute between the KP Textbook Board and publishers, causing immense…

LAHORE: Dr Shazia Bashir has become the first woman to assume the charge of vice chancellor of Govt College University Lahore in its 160-year-long history. Talking to media, Dr Bashir said it was an honor for her to study, teach at the…

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to adopt fixed sales tax on services for lawyers and customs agents instead of percentage. The decision was taken in a meeting held between Adviser to KP Chief Minister on Finance…

KARACHI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Karachi on Wednesday to hold consultation with traders and businessmen and take input from them in orde to improve the economy. He will also receive their suggestions in order to resolve…

LAKKI MARWAT: As many as six persons were shot dead and one injured in firing on a wedding ceremony in Ghaznikhel area of Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakthunkhwa. Police said that armed men reached the venue of the wedding ceremony and opened…

NEW YORK (Reuters): Pro-Palestinian students have set up tent encampments at more campuses across the U.S. to protest Israel's incursion into Gaza, after mass arrests at similar demonstrations at a handful of mostly East Coast colleges in…

GENEVA (Reuters): U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday that he was "horrified" by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, according to a…

SRINAGAR: Various political leaders in occupied Jammu and Kashmir have urged the international community to force India to restore the special status of the disputed territory. They reiterated demand for the restoration of occupied Jammu…

WASHINGTON (Reuters): The U.S. State Department's annual human rights assessment, opens new tab found "significant" abuses in India's northeastern Manipur state last year and attacks on minorities, journalists and dissenting voices in the…

ISLAMABAD: Senator Sherry Rehman, Vice President of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), on Earth Day 2024 stressed the critical importance of addressing plastic pollution and its enduring, detrimental impact on human health and the…