Tag: Students

Lahore - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan addressed students of Institute of Management Sciences on Monday. He said, "The revolution will kick corrupt politicians and rulers into the sea; future of the country belongs to students who should come out to bring a change."
He said that rulers were spending on their own luxuries but they were not ready to invest in the education sector. He further said PTI raised the revolution slogan not for power but to kick

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday informed the National Assembly that his ministry was devising a new strategy to tackle terrorism by introducing a new performa for foreigners and Pakistanis visiting abroad.
"Under the new mechanism, which will be introduced within a few days, there will be a proper check on foreign scholarships offered to Pakistani students, while Pakistani artistes visiting other countries will also have to seek a no-objection certificate

Lahore - Hajvery University D-Pharm students on Wednesday forced the university's administration to take back their decision of increasing the fee. The university had increased the fee from Rs 47,500 to Rs 60,000 per semester. Responding to this fee hike, the students staged a protest at the university's Euro Campus, Gulberg. Students were asked to submit fee according to the new fee schedule, but they refused. They boycotted classes and gathered in front of the admin office where

Lahore - Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday admitted an application pleading that NADRA B-Form should not be submitted along the online Matric admission form. Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique filed this application to an already filed petition pleading against the compulsion that NADRA B-Form should be produced with the admission forms of class ninth and tenth, during submission. He submitted that Board Of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE)

LAHORE - Kinnaird College's annual convocation, a much-awaited event for graduating students of the Master's and Bachelor's programmes, was held on February 22, but as excited as everyone was, the event came in for a lot of criticism. In certain sections, instead of leaving its mark as a well organized event whose memory would be something to remember, many students and parents, left, extremely disappointed by what they termed to be the inefficiency of the management.
The main

LAHORE - Students of the University of Education on Tuesday protested against the unrest being created in the varsity by some students of the IT Department allegedly on the instigation of expelled director of the Science and Technology Division, Dr Anwaarur Rehman Pasha, according to a press release.
According to details, some students of the IT Department forced their way into other departments and started intimidating the students to join their protest. The miscreants also

HAFIZABAD - The students of Primary School Kot Miran who have to sit on the ground despite the purchase of plastic furniture worth Rs 110 million by the district administration have urged the Punjab government to order the authorities concerned to supply the required furniture and posting of teaching staff at the earliest. Reportedly, there are more than 200 male and female students in the Government Primary School village Kot Miran, Markaz Sukheki.
Only two teachers are teaching

LAHORE - Hamza looks calm while he sits in his room and tries hard to make his way through the physics book. Its half past ten and he is still to have his dinner. His exams are approaching and his eating and sleeping habits have lost track. As he makes sure that he ends the chapter before midnight, after which he will have his meal and then will go to bed late after midnight, he feels a buzz in half his head, the buzz magnifies and turns into a twinge, the twinge amplifies to a much

LAHORE - The Al-Hamra Exhibition Hall displayed about 1500 drawings, sketches and paintings of children from the Beaconhouse School System, attracting a huge audience. Nationwide branches of the schools took part in the exhibition from Karachi to Peshawar. The paintings were put up on sale, for prices from Rs 1,000 to 2,000, in order to raise funds for flood victims.
Member of academics department Uzma Waqas told Pakistan Today that the idea was the art directors to take some of

LAHORE - The Punjab Ministry for Minorities and Human Rights has signed an agreement with Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) to impart training to youth belonging to minority communities in the province.
This was announced by Punjab Minister for Minorities and Human Rights Kamran Michael while presiding over a departmental meeting on Monday, the Minister informed that TEVTA will train and educate the students from minority communities residing in

Annual exhibition of Home Economics College kicked off on Friday. Visitors admired the extraordinary work exhibited by the students. The extraordinary work exhibited makes one sense the experience of thought and mastery of hands that has finally evolved into pottery, interior design, weaving, painting, textile design or printing.
Food and Nutrition Department, Textiles and Clothing Department, Human Development Department, Art and or Design Department, Housing Department, Home

LAHORE - A number of University of Education (UoE) students held a demonstration on Thursday seeking the reinstatement of Dr Anwar Rehman Pasha and his wife Dr Shireen Pasha, who were sacked by the university's vice chancellor Dr Farhat Cheema on corruption allegations a few days ago.
The students demanded that the Punjab governor and UoE Chancellor Latif Khosa terminate the VC, claiming that she had sacked the professors due to personal grudge. They claimed that 38 students

LAHORE - Dressed in immaculately white shalwar kamez and black waist coats, large number of students from Jamia Naeemia took out Eid Miladun Nabi procession on Thursday.
Celebrating Rabi-ul-Awwal, the month of the Prophet's (PBUH) birthday, students waved green flags and chanted slogans like, 'Nara-e-Takbeer, Allahu Akbar' and 'Nara-e-Risalat, Ya Rasulullah'.
Naat Khawani was an integral part of the procession which started from Jamia Naeemia and concluded at its starting

LAHORE - Under the directions of Adviser to Punjab University (PU) Vice Chancellor Col (r) Ikram Ullah and PU Chief Security Officer (CSO) Major Arif, the varsity's security guards with the help of the Punjab Police roughed up students, both male and female, on Wednesday.
FEMALES TORTURED: Female students were seen crying and invoking Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Chief Justice Lahore High Court, demanding PU VC Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran and Ikram Ullah's termination,

LAHORE - Punjab University (PU) Institute of Mycology and Plant Pathology (IMPP) students on Tuesday held a protest and sit-in in front of the Vice Chancellor's Office for over three hours against the varsity administration's failure in getting the institute's degrees accredited from the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and not fulfilling promises made in the last meeting.
Students tried to attack PU VC Dr Mujahid Kamran's office for not considering their degree issues and said

LAHORE - Punjab University (PU) Vice-Chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran on Tuesday held a meeting with students of the Institute of Plant Pathology (IPP) at the Al-Raazi Hall of the Centre for Undergraduate Studies and assured them of resolving all their problems.
The PU VC, on request of students, allowed student representatives to meet him today (Wednesday) as efforts are already being made to provide them relief. While discussing problems of IPP students, Kamran said that he had a

SRINAGAR - Thousands of protesters poured into the streets in restive Indian occupied Kashmir on Saturday after a student was shot dead by the army. The new unrest raised memories of massive anti-India protests that rocked the Muslim-majority region last summer in which at least 114 people were killed, most of them shot by security forces.
Manzoor Ahmad Magray, 21, a student, was killed by Indian troops late Friday in Handwara, 80 kms (50 miles) north of the region's summer