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ISLAMABAD – At a graduation ceremony Ambassador Donald Blome congratulated 200 women students from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa who successfully completed the U.S. Embassy-sponsored English Works! Program. As many as 209 women students of the English Works! Program were hosted by Shaheed ...

Pakistan Education Champions Network hailed decision to provide free transportation facilities for female students in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to a press release issued here on Wednesday, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recently an-nounced free transportation facilities for female students. Mehmood ...

Months after Dua Zehra’s legal battle regarding the validity of her marriage began, the medical board finally determined her age to be between 15 to 16 years. Now confirmed to be a minor, this development would incriminate her 21-year-old husband. ...

Child marriages are, unfortunately, quite common in Pakistan. Many parents prefer marrying off their daughters at a young age so that they can have a place of their own. Since most of them are against letting their daughters work, they ...

Dr. Esra Asif is the first female Pakistani social entrepreneur, to be awarded a PhD degree in Marketing fully funded by the prestigious Marketing Studentship scholarship, at one of the UK’s top ten Business Schools, Leeds University Business School. Dr. ...