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Dr Samira Gul Peshawar: The recent surge in militancy in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has posed significant challenges for journalists, necessitating increased responsibilities, concerns about safety, and the need for accurate reporting. In this…

News Desk Islamabad: The Pakistani film ‘Hum Saya (Neighbour)’ received the award for ‘Best Short Documentary on Human Rights’ at the prestigious Venice Intercultural Film Festival 2023. The film is produced by the Centre for Social…

News Desk Peshawar: The state of girls’ education in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is dismal, out of the 4.7 million out-of-school children in the province, around 66 per cent are girls. Moreover, around 23 per cent of girls cannot reach the…

News Desk Islamabad/Lahore: Schizophrenia affects approximately 24 million people or one in every 300 people (0.32 per cent) worldwide and this rate is 1 in 222 people (0.45 per cent) among adults, according to the World Health…

News Desk Nottingham: The British sculptural artist Willard Wigan surprised everyone by creating works of art smaller than an ant. A ‘miniature masterpiece’ consisting of 24 sculptures by Dr Willard will be exhibited at the Woolton Paul…

News Desk A 4-year-old boy Saeed Rashid Al-Mehiri from Abu Dhabi has become the world’s youngest author after writing a book called ‘The Elephant, Saeed, and the Bear’, which has sold 1,000 copies as of March 9, 2023. The book’s story…

News Desk Islamabad: Meta has partnered with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the non-profit Poynter Institute to create a free introductory fact-checking course, which is composed of three modules focusing on…

News Desk Rawalpindi: The prevalence of glaucoma, a vision-threatening condition in children, is becoming more common in Pakistan, which requires proper intervention. Al-Shifa Trust Head of Paediatric Department Dr Sumaira Altaf said…

News Desk ISLAMABAD: Globally, 2.1 billion people still lack access to safe drinking water, and 4.5 billion people have no adequate facility for safely managed sanitation services, said Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources…

Mohammed Ajeeb Bradford: Yesterday when I was browsing through my archive I came across a quite lengthy article which was written by me about 10 years ago and published in the International Daily News London in two instalments. It…