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Position holders receive awards in a ceremony

By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA: Official of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Swat here on Saturday vowed to provide safe and better environment in the upcoming examinations of secondary school certificate (SSC). He was speaking in the prize distribution ceremony for the position holders of the pre-board examination of all the private schools in Swat organized by Board of Educational Research and Development, Swat. Assistant secretary academics of the BISE Swat, Umar Hussain who was chief guest at the occasion said that transparency in conducting examination was the top priority of the BISE. “Encouraging hardworking and intelligent...

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Annual Function: Students enthrall audience by cultural dance

MINGORA: Students performed a cultural dance (Athanr) at a private school here on Saturday, enthralling the audience. The dance was organised at the Khapl Kor Model School’s auditorium during the annual prize distribution ceremony attended by parents, elders and officials in large numbers. Swat District Nazim Mohammad Ali Shah was the chief guest, while the ceremony was presided over by tehsil nazim Ikram Khan. Prizes and awards were given away to the students who achieved top positions in academic and extracurricular activities. Speaking on the occasion, the district nazim praised the performance of the students. He said the school...

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Locals allege officials and police of precious wood smuggling in Swat

By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA: The local residents on Friday alleged the cedarwood smuggling from Kalam and its suburbs to other parts of the province and insisted the police and forest officials had connived with the people involved in the activity. Upper Swat is known for forests of cedar, whose precious wood is used to make doors and windows, and furniture due to durability. According to the people, there is no check on the illegal transportation of cedarwood from the area to other parts of the province. Bahrain village councillor Dost Mohammad Khan told this scribe that a small truck...

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Pakistan receive security assurances from West Bengal government, police

By www.espncricinfo.com The Pakistan government has received two letters, from the West Bengal state government and Kolkata’s police commissioner Rajeev Kumar, assuring special security measures for Pakistan’s men’s team while in Kolkata. These letters are likely to be evaluated by Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Khan, who will take the call on whether the men’s and women’s teams will travel to India for the tournament. CAB president Sourav Ganguly submitted the letters from Kumar and West Bengal’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee to the ICC on Thursday afternoon. According to two senior CAB officials, the content in both letters, which were...

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Despite disability, Tahira supports her family, educates siblings

By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA:  Unaware of Women’s Day being celebrated in luxury hotels with majority of women from upper class, across the country, Tahira, 21, was sewing a lady’s suit to earn that day food for her family. Disabled with one leg due to polio, Tahira works most of the time to support her old parents and five siblings. She feels pride in earning bread for her family and bearing education expenses of her younger brother and sister. This courageous young woman from Manglawar faced great hardships before learning the skills of sewing and stitching. Her father, who used...

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