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 percent of primary schools with only one teacher, Pakistan ‘celebrated’ World Teachers’ Day 2016 with rest of the world...
Survey highlights the need for use of RTI/sunshine laws by journalists in Pakistan
By Khalid Khattak
Over 97 percent of journalists in Pakistan who took a data journalism survey believe that official data is not easily available in Pakistan.
But at the same time, most of them, 75.6 percent,...
SSC (Matriculation) 2016 BISE DG Khan tops all BISEs in Punjab with highest pass...
As many as 79, 801 (8 percent) more students appeared in the Secondary School Certificate (Matriculation) Annual Examination 2016 in all the nine examination boards of Punjab as compared to the last year.
The overall...
Pakistan home to 8pc of world’s out-of-school population
By Khalid Khattak
LAHORE: Pakistan is home to eight percent of the world’s out-of-school population, reveals the latest policy paper jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Global Education Monitoring (GEM)...
Except KP, literacy rate increased in Pakistan!
The Economic Survey of Pakistan 2015-16 reveals that the country's literacy rate has increased. Similarly an increase in literacy rate has been observed in Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan provinces. Interestingly the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's literacy rate...
Survey on data journalism in Pakistan
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This survey has been developed in collaboration with JournalismPakistan.
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U.S. top country seeking users’ info from Facebook, Twitter
Global stats pertaining to information sought by the governments about the users of social networking sites Facebook and Twitter for investigation of criminal cases shows that United States leads all the other countries in...
Dawn.com’s project shortlisted for Data Journalism Awards 2016
A project by Pakistan’s Dawn Media Group around the massacre of 144 children and teachers at the Army Public School (APS), Peshawar has been shortlisted for the Data Journalism Award 2016.
144 Stories is the only...
Five Muslim countries together fail to catch up India in Google Scholar Citations
As many as five Muslim countries together including Pakistan and Malaysia have failed to catch up with India vis-à-vis Google Scholar Citations by their respective universities.
The collective citations by universities of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,...
Panama Papers: Google Trends shows Imran Khan and PTI top on search scale
By Khalid Khattak
The search volume index of the search engine giant Google shows some interesting patterns vis-à-vis search of the term “Panama Papers” from within Pakistan during the last week.
The search for a particular...

















