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Latest News Project to upgrade 8,360 schools launched

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According to a notification issued by the provincial education ministry, the project will cost Rs6.5 billion. Under the programme, 20,000 school teachers will be recruited temporarily as interns. Under the project, in primary schools middle classes will be run in the evening shift, higher classes will be conducted in middle schools and higher secondary classes will be conducted in high schools in the second shift. تازہ ترین خبریں The notification said that verification of all such upgraded schools will start from June 24 and a formal notification in this regard will be issued on July 15. According to the officials, the recruitment of teachers for these schools will take place next month. Under the project, the age limit for recruitment for female teachers has been set between 20 to 55 years while for male teachers between 20 to 50 years. Matric and up to graduation has been set the minimum qualification for the recruitment of teachers with second division. Under the project, pr
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Latest Pakistan News After protest, govt withdraws flour taxes

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In a significant turn of events, the central government has chosen to pull out the proposed 17% deals charge on wheat grain while fixing the choice to nullify one percent refund on yearly deals of flour factories after flour plants began their dissent against the proposed expansion in charges. تازہ ترین خبریں The Government Leading body of Income (FBR) on Wednesday gave an explanation as to the table endorsing charge rates for least assessment on turnover premise. It said the table has been subbed in the Money Bill-2021 to give help to retailers of quick shopper products (FMCG) including flour plants and treatment facilities. "The words 'flour plants' couldn't be referenced incidentally in the table which was a blunder and had been noted and would be corrected in the changed bill. "This would imply that the base expense appropriate on flour factories would stay at 0.25% of the turnover rather than 1.25% as being by and large deciphered," it said. Th
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Latest News LNG terminal dry-docking to cost $40 million

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 Sources said that the oil and gas companies had informed the government that consumers would be facing a burden of $25 million due to substitute fuel of furnace oil and high speed diesel in power plants to generate electricity. تازہ ترین خبریں Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has taken-or-pay agreements with power plants. In case, it is unable to provide gas to such power plants, it would have to pay damages that amount to around $7 million. Similarly, Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) also has taken-or-pay deals with the gas consumers. It will have to pay $5 million to its clients in case it is unable to provide gas to the customers. Pakistan State Oil (PSO) may also pay damages worth $3 million as it also has taken-or-pay agreement with LNG supplier in case it is unable to take supplies due to absence of the Engro LNG terminal. The summer season has resulted in increased demand for electricity in the country. PSO imports 600 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd)
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Latest News Pakistan Biden criticised for ignoring Pakistan over Afghan drawdown

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In a series of tweets, ahead of this week’s talks at the White House between Biden and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Kabul’s top negotiator Abdullah Abdullah, the ranking Republican senator from South Carolina criticised the Biden administration for believing that the US problems in Afghanistan were over. تازہ ترین خبریں   under a deal with the Taliban, the US agreed to withdraw its troops in exchange for a Taliban promise to denounce terrorist groups and enter negotiations with the Afghan government aimed at restoring peace to the war-battered country. Biden said in April that the US would leave Afghanistan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The Pentagon said on Monday that it will complete its full withdrawal by September 11, but the pace of the pullout could be slowed given the Taliban’s gains. On Friday, Biden will meet with Ghani and Abdullah, the head of the country’s High Council for National Reconciliation, which o
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Latest News South Carolina court halts executions until the state new firing

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 The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday halted executions in the state until procedures for its newest method of execution -- firing squad -- are finalized. Attorneys for Brad Keith Sigmon, who had been scheduled to be executed on Friday, successfully petitioned the state's high court to stay the execution due to South Carolina having only one method available, the electric chair. تازہ ترین خبریں A law passed in May sought to close a loophole that allowed for inmates on death row to indefinitely postpone their executions as long as drugs required for lethal injection were unavailable. South Carolina does not have the drugs needed to perform lethal injections. Under the new law signed last month by Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, inmates must now choose either electrocution or firing squad as their methods of execution. The director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections said in an affidavit that as of June 3, the only method of execution available in the st
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Latest Pakistan News poverty and exploitation drive child marriages

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Activists in Pakistan have approached Islamabad to raise the base time of union with 18. The age necessity for marriage is at present 16 in all pieces of the nation besides in the southern area of Sindh, where it is 18.  Pakistan approved the Show on the Privileges of the Youngster (CRC) in 1990, vowing obligation to secure the privileges of kids, just as the disposal of kid marriage. However, underage marriage is as yet an issue in a few pieces of Pakistan. Referring to information from the Pakistan Segment and Wellbeing Review (PDHS) 2017-18, Qamar Naseem, a rights dissident from the city of Peshawar, says 3.3% of young ladies are offered younger than 15 while 18.3% of young ladies offered are younger than 18.   The nation over, about 4.7% of young men are offered younger than 18, he added. Naseem said child marriage is quite higher in Pakistan's recently consolidated ancestral regions, where around 35% of all kid relationships in the nation happen. Ladies' privileges d
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