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Turkish Tourists Praise Swat Police, People and Natural Beauty

By Fazal Khaliq SWAT: Turkish students on Friday, who visited Swat during Eidul Fitr holidays, praised Swat police for recovering their lost bag immediately and giving them a high standard of hospitality. According to Roshan Ali, SHO Ghaligey police station the three Turkish students, Izzuddin from Mardin, Gokhan and Salaah Uddin from Bakar in Turkey who are studying in Pakistan visited Swat during Eidul Fitr holidays but they lost their bag containing passports and other important documents came to the police station for filing report. “When they came, I assured them not to worry as we will try our...

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ECONOMY CRISES OF PAKISTAN AND THE WAY FORWARD

By Bilal Sayed Forex and currency crises Pakistan has repeatedly run into macroeconomic crises: runaway inflation, current account and trade deficits, depleting foreign reserves, and currency devaluations. It is, once again, faced with a combination of these problems. The two immediate threats to the country’s $263-billion economy come from the build-up of inflationary pressures, and a payment crisis that stems from a combination of global and domestic factors — problems that the pandemic has exacerbated. The situation is similar to, and worse than, the crisis of 2018 when Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves plummeted to multi-year low. As of November...

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Baligram villagers still use the ancient hand-run grinding stone (Maichan) to make their flour

By Fazal Khaliq SWAT: In the modern age of science and technology when state-of-the-art machinery is used for various purposes including grinding grain, there is a village in Swat where residents still use the ancient way of grinding grains into flour. Locally known as maichun, a hand run grinding millstone, though has already disappeared long ago, the residents of Baligram, a remote hilly village in Kokarai union council, still use the ancient stone hand-driven millstone to grind wheat, maize, barley, and rice when their village is cut off from the rest of the areas during the snowfall or harsh winter....

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STEM day observed in Swat school

By Fazal Khaliq SWAT:  Education experts and students said that the existing educational system was outdated and only the STEM educational approach could enable them to compete in the global economy and other fields of science and technology. They were speaking in a Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) exhibition to mark the international STEM Day which was organized by Swat Public School (SPS). Students of different grades and campuses participated in the exhibition where various STEM projects were exhibited. The first STEM books series from grade nursery to grade 6 with the STEM kits were also exhibited in the...

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Young doctors and dentists provide volunteer services to orphans

By Our Correspondent SWAT: Young doctors and dentists said that providing volunteer medical services to deserving people not only gave them contentment but also professional development in their careers. They were providing volunteer medical services in a medical and dental camp to the orphan children in Swat. The camp, titled “Orphan Care Camp” under a Project Smile, was organized by a Carvaan Foundation, Lahore in collaboration with KPK development corporation, Saidu Medical and Dental College, Luqman International Hospital and The Torwali. The camp was organized at the Parwarish orphanage in Mingora. More than 20 young doctors from different parts...

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