Month: September 2015

Like, Share and EAT: Facebook snacks in Swat

Like, Share and EAT: Facebook snacks in Swat

Posted by | Sep 19, 2015 | , |

By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA: Children in Swat, without any tension of power loadshedding, have access to the Facebook, this time not on the screens of their computers and mobile phones but in shops to eat it. Owing to its popularity in teens and minors, Facebook, one of the biggest social media has engaged about 1.49 billion users monthly. However, in Swat, the long hours of loadshedding has refrained young Facebook users from using it regularly. Though the government has no immediate solution to resolve loadshedding, however, snacks’ manufacturers have come up with an interesting way out to give an...

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Swat poet enjoys popularity for educating girls

Swat poet enjoys popularity for educating girls

Posted by | Sep 18, 2015 | |

By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA: Living in a pure Pakhtun society far away from Urdu literary circles, Talat Qamar has not only earned Parveen Shakir Award for her sublime poetry but she is also popular among people of Swat for educating girls. She was born in 1960 in the house of a renowned educationist Prof Akhlaque Ahmed Khan in Saidu Sharif of the former princely Swat state. She received her earlier education from government girls high school No.1 Saidu Sharif and passed FA from the same college where she is now working as a principal. She did her BA from...

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Swati youngster makes way to the national T20 team

Swati youngster makes way to the national T20 team

Posted by | Sep 17, 2015 | , |

Sports Correspondent  MINGORA: People in Swat are excited after Imran Khan Junior, the young player from Swat, was selected by the National Selection Committee in the T20 squad against Zimbabwe. A wave of happiness surged among Swatis when the young bowler paved his way to the shortest format of cricket after showing his brilliant performances in the national T20 championship. Playing for Peshawar, the Left-arm pacer Imran bagged 16 wickets in the championship. “We are really excited to know that Imran has been selected in the national team against Zimbabwe. The news brought immense joy to everyone in Swat,”...

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Young entrepreneur becomes ray of hope for Swat women

Young entrepreneur becomes ray of hope for Swat women

Posted by | Sep 15, 2015 | |

By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA: During the three years of militancy, when there was no ray of hope for the traumatised widows and orphan girls in Swat, Shama Khalilur Rehman, a young entrepreneur, came forward to not only rehabilitate them but also help them to stand on their own feet. She opened a vocational centre in Swat in 2009 and motivated the needy women to learn skills and earn their livelihood in a respectful way. She said that she set up the centre as she could not see the suffering of the poor women, whose spouses were killed during the...

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NGOs join hands to educate deprived girls in Swat

NGOs join hands to educate deprived girls in Swat

Posted by | Sep 15, 2015 | |

  By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA: More than 30 schools will be set up in the rural areas of the district under a three-year project to impart quality education to girl students and equip them with vocational skills. The schools will be established particularly in those areas where middle schools don’t exist to facilitate the girl students, who have passed primary level. The project will help them to stand on their feet by providing them vocational skills. The project titled “Institutional support for participatory, inclusive and respective education (Inspire) II” has been funded by Reach out to Asia (Rota) and...

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