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KARACHI: Distribution of stipends to public school girls through ATM cards and Easypaisa, for the academic year 2014-2015 is scheduled to begin from January 29. “This year 350,000 girls will receive [a total] amount of Rs950 million, which will start ...

By: Sameer Mandhro KARACHI: Aansoo Kohli, a young, physically impaired girl from the Hindu community, who has been dubbed ‘Sindh’s Malala’ by the Sindh Assembly, will join Malala Yousafzai in New York next week for the world premiere of her ...

BEKAA VALLEY: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest in “books not bullets”. “I ...

ISLAMABAD: For 1,500 women in Pakistan, an SMS message will soon be a tutor, textbook and school all rolled into one. On Wednesday, Mobilink Foundation — a nonprofit organisation established by Mobilink in 2007 — and UNESCO signed an agreement ...

A seminar titled “Female Education in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P)” was recently held to discuss factors that can be utilised to improve girls’ education in the province. The seminar was organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) to discuss findings of ...