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Junior students urge people to play role in minimizing global issues

Junior students urge people to play role in minimizing global issues

Posted by | Nov 13, 2017 | |

By Fazal Khaliq MINGORA: Juniour students of a local school here on Thursday tried to sensitize people on the rising issues; from global warming to the shortage of water, and urged to play role in minimizing them. At least 85 students belonging from grade three to five of the City School Swat campus made their presentations to raise awareness on the use of plastic bags, global warming, forestation, globalization, facebook, personal hygiene and some other topics. Large number of parents and civil society members attended the multimedia presentations and appreciated the students’ efforts of creating awareness. Member national assembly...

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Charity provides 2.5 million units of Electricity to Chitral

Charity provides 2.5 million units of Electricity to Chitral

Posted by | Nov 8, 2017 | |

By Our Correspondent CHITRAL: Witnessing decades of darkness Chitralis, at last, started enjoying benefits of smooth and quality electricity after SRSP in collaboration with European Union established hydro-power stations in the valley. Large parts of Chitral town which for almost a decade had electricity voltage incapable of charging a mobile or run a fridge have greatly benefitted from the 2 megawatt power house built at Istore in Golane Valley by SRSP( registered as a charity) under its PEACE Project. In the last couple of months the power house has supplied 2.5 million units of electricity to the town through the...

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Pakistan’s ill fated craziness for coal energy

Pakistan’s ill fated craziness for coal energy

Posted by | Aug 27, 2017 | |

By Shaista Hakim It was in December 2015 that delegates and deputies of more than 150 countries of the world gathered in Paris in connection with the UN Climate Summit. The purport of this huge meeting was to sign an agreement with the firm commitment to control the devastating effects of the climate change which has been affecting the world in a bad way. It was firmly resolved that no stone should be left unturned that the rise in the global temperature should be brought down by 2 degree centigrade. It is irony of fate that Pakistan has been...

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Freedom of Expression, our constitutional right

Freedom of Expression, our constitutional right

Posted by | Aug 12, 2017 | |

By Gulranga Ali Every human being needs to express his feelings or opinion freely, whether he/she lives in developed or no developed country.  God has created human beings with different thoughts, feelings, emotions and opinions and there can be no uniform law which should be imposed for expression of their views. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has guaranteed the right to speech to all human beings without discrimination. Similarly, the constitution of Pakistan has also ensured this fundamental right to speech to every citizen. The right to speech is known as “freedom of speech” or “liberty of expression”...

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WOMEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE PROPOSED REWAJ ACT FOR FATA

WOMEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE PROPOSED REWAJ ACT FOR FATA

Posted by | Aug 10, 2017 | |

By Azra Nafees Yousafzai Demands for comprehensive reforms to repeal the draconian and inhuman colonial-era Frontier Crimes Regulation and to restore fundamental human rights to more than 7 million inhabitants of FATA have gathered momentum in the last few years. During the last decades several efforts and initiatives have been started to introduce much needed reforms in the tribal areas; but it appears all such initiatives actually aim at perpetuating the same old barbaric system by cloaking them with fancy new names and marginal changes without touching the main discriminatory clauses. The case of women rights is a good example....

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