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Youth in Swat celebrate International Peace Day

Youth in Swat celebrate International Peace Day

Posted by | Sep 22, 2015 | |

By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA: Youth activists, students and civil society members marked the International Peace Day here on Tuesday.  The ceremony was organised by Peace for New Generation to mark International Peace Day and was attended by youth, students and social activists in a large number. The theme of this year’s commemoration is “Partnerships for peace — dignity for all” which is aimed at highlighting the importance of all segments of society to work together for peace. “A society can only enjoy peace if everyone in it enjoys justice and human rights. Adopting violence to prevail peace is not...

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Linguists urge government to promote Swati languages

Linguists urge government to promote Swati languages

Posted by | Sep 21, 2015 | , |

By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA: Speakers at a Media seminar here on Sunday urged the government to take concrete steps for promotion of regional languages. The speakers also called upon journalists to play their role in preserving the fast fading languages in the rural areas of the country. The seminar titled “Lesser known languages of Swat: challenges and opportunities” was organised by Forum for Languages Initiative (FLI). Culture activists, linguists and journalists attended the seminar. “There are 30 disadvantaged languages in northern Pakistan,” said Mohammad Zaman Sagar, a representative of FLI. He said that FLI was currently working on 14 of...

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Jahanzeb College students want IT block, girls hostel back

Jahanzeb College students want IT block, girls hostel back

Posted by | Sep 20, 2015 | |

MINGORA: Students of the Jahanzeb Postgraduate College, Saidu Sharif, staged rally on Saturday against the occupation of its IT block and girls hostel by the University of Swat (UoS). The students started their march from the college and gathered in front of Swat Press Club. The protesters said that six years ago the two buildings of the Jahanzeb college were handed over to the university for five years under an agreement. They said that the agreement had already expired and the UoS was not returning the buildings to the college. They said that over the years the number of...

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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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