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  Islamabad: President Dr Arif Alvi Monday while terming the country’s progress linked with education, called for society and Ulema’s role to promote girls’ education through awareness as well as providing them a secure environment. The president, addressing the launching ...

LAHORE: The government would establish more women universities in the province, the Punjab Assembly was told here on Monday. Higher Education Minister Raja Yassir Humayun said during the Question Hour the government intended to set up more women universities in ...

Rawalpindi : Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said that a ‘Lal Haveli’ scholarship programme would be launched to provide financial assistance to deserving and talented female students to study abroad. Addressing the participants of a function after ...

ISLAMABAD – The practice of child marriage should be avoided at every level as it was putting the lives of mothers in perils, resulting in increased mortalities and socioeconomic pressure over the families.  Farkhanda Aurangzeb, Senior Consultant Human Rights Education ...

Madiha Nisar, vice-chairperson of WPC, says keeping girls in school is one of the best ways to prevent child marriages. — Reuters/File PESHAWAR: Religious leaders from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa here on Monday expressed their resolve to promote the rights of ...