The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) received 58 titles of textbooks out of 74 and started the process of delivering books to the schools and colleges.
Talking to APP, Director Model Colleges, Tariq Masood said the National Book Foundation (NBF), the book publishing authority will deliver remaining 16 titles soon so that the students can start their study in time.
He said the directorate will ensure timely delivery of the books this year and the students will get their books soon after reopening of the institutes on April 13, which are closed for spring break.
FDE has placed the order of textbooks to NBF during the month of February to save the students from any inconvenience.
The parents are feared that the students may not get the textbooks timely as it happened last year. NBF, Secretary Aftab Soomro said that printing of books is underway and textbooks of only two or three subjects are yet to be printed.
NBF is responsible to provide books to the FDE run institutes as well as schools being run under the Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Authority (PEIRA).
22 lawbreakers arrested: Rawalpindi Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested 22 outlaws in special crackdowns conducted against lawbreakers and recovered drugs, liquor and illegal weapons from them.
According to Police spokesman, Police seized 16,325 grams charas, 97 bottles of liquor, four pistols 30 bor with 17 rounds, one gun 12 bor with two rounds, one dagger, 1755 kites with 27 string rolls and fireworks items from them.
The outlaws apprehended in different raids have been sent behind the bars, he said adding, separate cases have been registered against all the accused while further investigation is underway.
dacoit Gang busted: Islamabad Police have arrested 11 outlaws from various areas of the city and recovered 34 wine bottles, four 30 bore pistols, one dagger and looted items worth Rs 180,000 from their possession, police said on Tuesday.
On a tip off Shehzad town police raided at the hideout of dacoits and arrested four persons in possession of three 30 bore pistol and one dagger from their possession.
The nabbed dacoits were identified as Asar Ali s/o Nazir Hussain, Waqar
Hussain s/o Naseer Hussain, Shujaat Hussain s/o Makhdoom Hussain, Qadeer s/o Banaras and they confessed to commit several dacoities in various areas of the city. Shalimar police nabbed two thieves Abdul Aleem and Saleem besides recovering stolen items worth Rs 1,80,000 from them.
Aabpara police apprehended a bottlegger Azeem and recovered 25 wine bottles from him while an accused Khuram Shehzad was arrested for having one wine bottle by Margallah police. Margallah police apprehended a thief Arsalan in possession of stolen items and one 30 bore pistol while another bootlegger Sajid Khan was arrested by ASI Aurangzeb from Sihala police for having eight wine bottles.
Cases have been registered against these nabbed persons and further investigation is underway from them.
PIDE seminar TODAY: The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) will organise a seminar here on Wednesday.
The topic of the seminar is “Cost Efficiency for Service Delivery through Public-Public, Public-Community and Public-Private Partnership Models: A Case Study of Small Industries Development Board (SIDB), KP,” said a news release of the institute issued here Tuesday.
Those scheduled to speak on the occasion include Syed Akhter Hussain Shah, Managing Director, Small Industries Development Board, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Syed Tariq Shah, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, QAU, and Mahmood Khalid, Research Economist, PIDE, Islamabad, the release said.
