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Is the government monitoring air quality?
By Syed Muhammad Abubakar
CHAKWAL: Hammad Sher Afghan, aged 34, lives in Dalail Pur village, situated 1.5km away from a cement factory in tehsil Choa...
13pc increase in number of registered doctors in Pakistan since 2011
Are all registered doctors serving in Pakistan?
There are 175,223 registered doctors in Pakistan. A simple analysis shows that a 13 percentage increase in total...
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Despite half of population, few female candidates contest General Elections 2018
By Muhammad Daud Khan
ISLAMABAD: An analysis of the final list of the candidates reveal that...
General Elections 2018: No mechanism in sight for expats to vote
By Numan Khan
LAHORE: Despite repeated hue and cry about voting rights to overseas Pakistanis, voters...
How climate change is affecting marine turtles in Pakistan?
By Syed Muhammad Abubakar
GWADAR: It was back in 2008 when a study conducted by Pakistan’s...
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World Teachers’ Day Special: Thousands of teaching posts vacant in schools in Pakistan
By Khalid Khattak
With thousands of vacant teaching posts in public schools and a whopping 30...
Pakistan telecom sector contributing around Rs 100 billion to national exchequer annually
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17 key traits of data literacy explained
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In the wake of ever increasing availability of data, data literacy has become one of the crucial skills for journalists. While it is...
Past 7 days: Panama Papers remained the most popular search in ICT
During the last seven days the term “Panama Papers” remained the most popular search in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) of Pakistan, followed by Punjab...
Pakistan’s cellular subscribers’ data
By Rana Tanveer
In our latest video we have tried to highlight as to how one can look at annual cellular subscribers' data of Pakistan....
Over 10 million voters added since 2018, ECP releases new stats
By Muhammad Daud Khan
Islamabad: After the 2018 General Elections, 10 million new electorates have been registered in two years as per the latest statistics...
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Making Education Interventions Work: A Case Study from South Punjab
By Saba Saeed & Hamza Sarfraz
Over the recent past, reform efforts and interventions in education sector have been underway across the country and particularly...
17 key traits of data literacy explained
DS Report
In the wake of ever increasing availability of data, data literacy has become one of the crucial skills for journalists. While it is...
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