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Number of 3G, 4G users reaches 42.998 million by end-July 2017

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Number of 3G and 4G users in Pakistan reached 42.998 million by end-July 2017 against 42.084 million by June 2017, said Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The number of mobile phone users in Pakistan reached 139.781 million by end-July 2017 compared to 139.758 million by end of June, which registered an increase of 23,638 users during […]


Classroom punishment

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The case of a four-year-old boy in Multan experiencing temporary hearing loss because his teacher blew a figurative gasket upon being unable to manage his classroom is disgraceful. The student became a scapegoat for the collective behaviour of the class. The problems with this issue are multifaceted, the primary of which is the adherence to corporal punishment in […]


‘Restricting free expression helps spread of militant narratives’

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ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar on Tuesday said freedom of expression is the basic requirement to counter the narrative of extremists but in Pakistan it remains badly affected because of a lack of trust on the state as the citizens even hesitate reporting incidents that have happened to them. Speaking at a seminar, ‘Countering violent extremism […]


Maps of skin and spirit opens

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KARACHI: Make no mistake: Pakistani art has hit a purple patch. The kind of work that the country’s artists are doing can be bracketed with the artworks produced in any other part of the world, simply because the bulk of their work is influenced and inspired by the sociopolitical strife that Pakistan has had to […]


Two more dengue patients die in Peshawar

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PESHAWAR: Two more persons died of dengue fever here on Tuesday as suspected patients continued to visit the hospitals with symptoms of the vector-borne ailment, said doctors. So far 12 persons have died of the ailment caused by bites of infected mosquitoes since the outbreak of the disease in early July. Lal Bacha, 60, a […]