Tag: Students

QUETTA - At least five students along with personnel of Balochistan Frontier Corps (FC) got injured in a remote controlled bomb blast in Turbat, a town in Kechh district on Tuesday.
FC spokesman who requested not to be named said that an FC school bus carrying more than three dozen students was passing in front of Atta Shahad Degree College when remote controlled device planted in the roadside exploded as the vehicle passed by.
As a result, five students identified as Kamil,

LAHORE - Hospital patients are facing severe cold due to gas closure while school children are also in the same dilemma, exposing them to diseases such as flu and fever, Pakistan Today has learnt. Gas supply to city hospitals including Ittefaq, Jinnah, Mayo, Sir Ganga Ram, Services, Shalimar and Children's Hospital remains suspended during the day while very low pressure persists during the night.
Patients said that they are exposed to severe cold, as neither gas nor electric

LAHORE - A handful of failed PU Law College students held a protest on Thursday demanding that aggregate passing marks be decreased from existing 45 percent to 40 percent in addition to introduction of carry-on system in the LLB examinations.
PU Law College Incharge Samee Uzair Khan said that protester's demands fall within ambit of the Board of Studies in Law and the board had rejected both demands in its previous meeting terming them detrimental to standards of legal

LAHORE - Plan Pakistan and Punjab School Education Department have entered into an agreement for the provision of adequate financial, human resource and material support to rehabilitate 400 affected primary schools in riverine areas of Layyah,
Muzaffargarh and Rajanpur districts. School Education Department Punjab Secretary Aslam Kamboh and Plan Pakistan Country Director Haider W Yaqub signed the MOU at the Civil Secretariat on Tuesday.
The project shall be implemented

Lahore - Electricity and gas load-shedding has been disturbing the students especially who are due to appear in exams, Pakistan Today has learnt. Several private schools and universities are conducting exams but students are finding it difficult to prepare themselves for the assigned tasks. During last few days,
the unprecedented and unscheduled load-shedding has lead students to suffer, and the Sui gas load-shedding has only added to their woes. Some areas experience ten hours

KARACHI: The students' syndicate of the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) - a body of former students, who topped in their intermediate examination in nine faculties - has stressed the need to modify the curriculum to meet international standards.
They also requested the board's management to alter the pattern of exam papers and increase the grammar portion to improve students' language skills. BIEK Chairman Anwer Ahmed Zai told the syndicate's members that the board

DASKA - Students of Government MC Girls' primary School Daska shiver in fogy winter season. The 32-year-old school is being neglected by the authorities of the education department and that is causing the numbers of students to decrease to an extend that out of 1500 students, only 250 girls students are attending the classes in school.
The building has been declared dangerous and may collapse at any time. There is no wash room facility in the school. Due to the non-availability

LAHORE: A hectic date sheet of class 5 and 8 annual examinations in Punjab has angered students and parents, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to the date sheet issued by the Punjab Examination Commission (PEC), students have to give two papers daily and there was no holiday between exams. Class 5 examinations would commence from February 1, 2011 and conclude on February while Class 8 examinations would start from February 7 and culminate on February 12.
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LAHORE: Art lovers and interested viewers were attracted to Ejaz Art Gallery on Saturday to view the paintings of students from National College of Arts (NCA). This was the first exhibition by the young artists who were excited to have their work displayed and at being surrounded by media and other viewers.
Aqueel Abbas-whose paintings were perhaps the most expressive- had painted an aerial view of children who were apparently smiling but hidden deep inside their simple,

LAHORE: After teachers and students, farmers would be the next target of the Punjab government, former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said on Saturday.
He made these remarks while chairing a meeting of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Nankana chapter office bearers at the PML House. Elahi said that while people were dying of hunger, Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif was ruthlessly using the government machinery to silence the voices of the oppressed.
The PML-Q

LAHORE: Love for material success is making doctors forget courtesy, politeness, sympathy and encouragement, the sentiments which were once the trademark of the medical profession, former principal King Edward Medical College Professor Khwaja Sadiq Hussain said while addressing new medical students on the white coat and fraternity day in Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical & Dental College on Saturday.
Pakistan has progressed in corruption only, he said, adding that the

LAHORE: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would never tolerate injustice with students or teachers and the Punjab government would have to review its policies in this regard, PPP Secretary General Senator Jahangir Badar said on Friday while protesting against police torture of students and teachers outside the Punjab Assembly.
He made these remarks in a press conference at the Lahore Press Club. Badar said that using force could never achieve positive results and baton-charging

TEHRAN: Five students in Iran have been detained after one of several anti-government protests held earlier this week, opposition websites said on Thursday. The Kaleme site reported that around 1,000 students rallied at Tehran's Polytechnic University on Tuesday, an annual "students day" which was marked by several other small demonstrations at various campuses around Iran.
Authorities have cracked down on the opposition, which the government says are "seditionists" backed by

GUJRANWALA: Three students were killed when their motorcycle collided with a van coming from Sheikhupura. Reportedly, Asad, Saif and Salman were on their way back from school on a motorcycle when it collided with a wagon and died instantly.
Four passengers were also injured in the collision and were hospitalised. Human trafficker arrested: Gujrawnala FIA circle has succeeded in arresting a human trafficker, Raja Sajjad, and his accomplice Mian Gulfam from Sambrial.
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LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly courtyard turned into a battlefield on Wednesday when students from various government educational institutions trespassed four security barricades in an attempt to enter assembly premises and even tried pulling down the main door of the Punjab Assembly.
The students, led by the Joint Action Committee of Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA), were protesting against the privatisation of public schools and colleges outside the Punjab

LAHORE: Islami Jamiat Taliba (IJT) convinced the students of Government Islamia College Civil Lines and MAO College that the Punjab Assembly was planning to abolish blasphemy law through a bill on Wednesday and forced them to participate in a protest which was actually against the establishment of Board of Governors (BoG).
Around two dozen teachers of Joint Action Committee (JAC) were arrested after around 400 students and teachers converted Charing Cross into a battle field from

LAHORE: Protest at the Punjab Assembly by the teachers and students of Joint Actions Committee resulted in damaged buses, injured protestors by the police's baton charge and the arrests of students and office bearers of Punjab Lecturers and Professors Union on Wednesday.
At least four buses were stoned and put to fire by the students in retaliation to the police baton charge. Dozens of teachers and students were arrested as they came close to the Punjab Assembly's main gate.