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KARACHI-Pakistan Bait ul Mal, on Monday, launched Orphans and Widows Support Program aimed at grant of monthly financial assistance to orphan girls for their education. Phase me of the Orphans and Widows Support Programme (OWSP) was launched here at Art ...

Pakistan yesterday urged Afghan au­thorities to revisit the decision to suspend university and higher ed­ucation for female students in Af­ghanistan. “Pakistan is disappointed to learn about the suspension of uni­versity and higher education for fe­male students in Afghanistan,” said Foreign ...

SHANGLA: The education department has appointed 70 women teachers to union council schools here to fill vacancies. The appointments come under the government’s recent policy declaring at least two teachers mandatory for a primary school. District education officer (female) Parveen ...

ISLAMABAD: Education is often among the first casualties in a post-disaster situation and education for girls and the most under-served learners is among the most impacted. These views were expressed by Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE) Chief Executive Officer Zehra ...

LAHORE: As many as 100 cases of abduction, forced faith conversion, forced and child marriage of girls and women belonging to the Christian community have been reported since January 2019 to October 2022 in Pakistan, says a report titled “Conversion ...