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Minister opens Swat media housing society

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Special Assistant to Chief Minister (SACM) Kamran Bangash says the welfare of the journalist is one of the top priority of the Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaaf (PTI), and for this purpose, all the necessary steps are being taken. He said this at the inauguration of the media housing society at Dangram, an area of Mingora, in Swat […]


KP still unwilling to allow launch of Malala’s book

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PESHAWAR: The Taliban militants’ fear continues to hinder the launch of girls education campaigner Malala Yousafzai’s book in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The government had stopped the launch of ‘I am Malala’ in Peshawar two and half months ago in the wake of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan’s threat of attacks against bookshops selling the book. “We’d reached […]


Security given to Geo reporter Musa Khan’s family withdrawn

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MINGORA: The security provided to the family of Geo and The News martyred report Musa Khan Khel in Swat has been withdrawn, according to sources. Swat DPO Sher Akbar Khan told the media that he did not withdraw the security and a decision in this regard was made by Malakand commissioner, provincial government and the […]


Police thrash journalist

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Swat – Police have thrashed a private channel journalist when he was covering death of three children in a road accident. As per details, yesterday morning three innocent school going children have been died in a roadside accident at the Gulibagh area of Swat. The children were going to school after they were hit by […]


Other Malalas

Sir: I appreciate Malala Yousufzai who is from Swat. But I also keep thinking about the rest of the Malalas in Swat. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government claims that it has prioritised education. I personally belong to Swat, Kohistan, which consists of three union councils having only one girls high school in Bahrain town. Besides, there […]


Gender inequality in education

By: Nazila Isgandarova The world is happy to know that Malala Yousufzai from the Swat Valley in Pakistan is doing well and has been discharged from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in the UK. Yousufzai has become a hero for the majority of people in the world for challenging the anti-intellectual Taliban in her […]


Malala adjudged Herald’s Person of the Year

KARACHI: Malala Yousufzai, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has been chosen as the Herald’s Person of the Year for 2012 for “championing the cause of girls’ education which brought her under direct fire from the Taliban”. The Person of the Year project, part of the Herald’s special annual issue which hits the newsstands across […]