High achievers: Untapped potential of South Punjab
By Khalid Khattak
LAHORE: A study of result analyses of Grade-5 and Grade-8 examinations conducted by Punjab Examination Commission (PEC), over the past several years, shows that students from South Punjab performed much better than...
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 province and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on search engine giant Google.
The search volume...
ًًًMissing facilities in public schools of Pakistan
The Academy of Educational Planning and Management (AEPAM), a federal government’s educational planning and management body, last month issued its annual report “Pakistan Education Statistics 2015-16” which once again brought to limelight the much...
Journalists from developing or transitioning countries can apply for GIJN’s fellowships to attend GIJC17
Journalists from across Pakistan and other developing or transitioning countries are eligible to apply to fellowships being offered by Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) to attend its 10th Global Investigative Journalism Conference to be held in...
No Pakistani university among top 20 universities of the Muslim world
By Khalid Khattak
No Pakistani university has made to the top 20 universities and institutes of the Muslim world vis-à-vis quality research, reveals the latest ranking issued by the Scientometrics Lab of Information Technology University...
Pakistan’s bureaus of statistics
By Khalid Khattak
While three of the four provincial bureaus of statistics in Pakistan are rich in terms of availability of statistical information and data, one that of Balochistan government does not have a dedicated...
Census 2017 and Disability
Census to be held after a gap of eight years but no questions on disability in the main form.
By Khalid Khattak
Nadir Khan has survived a highly infectious disease. He was diagnosed with polio when...
Departed too soon: An insight into under-five child mortality in Pakistan
260 children die a day due to premature birth
By Khalid Khattak
The baby boy was not named yet. Put on a ventilator in hospital, his only identity was a tag on his wrist “baby of…..”
He...
Punjab Crime Chart 2016
By Arshad Dogar
As we enter 2017 and look back on 2016 vis-à-vis heinous crime took place in Punjab during the last year data tells us that on an average 10 persons were murdered daily...
















