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The Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, will introduce three master’s level programmes from the new session, commencing in 2005. An IBA official said that the new MS programme is being introduced in Computer Science/Information Technology, Accounting, Marketing and Economics. Each programme of two-year duration is planned for which 50 admissions will be offered on [...]

Oslo’s Lindeberg School will cooperate with two schools in Pakistan next year to help bring Norwegian classes to hundreds of Norwegian-Pakistani children living in Kharian. State secretary Cathrin Bretzeg (right) is satisfied with the teaching and staff at Bloomfield Hall School. Evening classes in Norwegian are already underway here. Over half of all Norwegian-Pakistanis stem [...]

The United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) arranged a colourful prize distribution ceremony-cum-art exhibition titled ‘A girl in school is a girl with a future’ by government primary schoolgirls at Alhamra Cultural Complex on Saturday. The event not only aimed to encourage young school-going females but also to recognise their artwork – by giving space [...]

The US police experts have started training Pakistani police officers in community policing, an official source said. Police officers of the rank of ASP from all over the country are attending the two-week training programme in Islamabad during which they will be taught modern techniques and methods of community policing. He said police officers participating [...]

Indian and Pakistani youth pitted their debating skills against each other here Thursday with the growing camaraderie between their countries reflected in the cross-current of ideas and verbal exchanges that were without rancour. The Pakistani team, comprising three students from different colleges, beat the Indians in the first India-Pakistan Seminar Debate organised by Miranda House [...]

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education have named Akbar S. Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and professor of international relations at American University, the 2004 District of Columbia Professor of the Year. Mr Ahmed is the former high commissioner of Pakistan to [...]

IN LESS than three months, Thomas Watters has mastered 38 letters of the Urdu alphabet, twisted his tongue around unfamiliar vocabulary and learnt to write in script. The first-year pupil at Shawlands Academy in Glasgow is one of several non-Asian children in his class who have chosen to study a language that is not part [...]

With the start of a free intellectual exchange between India and Pakistan, Indian readers now have the chance to read books on Pakistan’s history, economy, laws, culture, music and even fiction. While Indian books have always been available in our neighbouring country, the exchange was, till now, never mutual due to Pakistan’s restrictive trade policy. [...]

Kiran Shaheen lives in Uthal, a village on the outskirts of Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. The eight-year-old girl lives with her two brothers, sister and parents in a single-room house where there is electricity, but no running water or proper sanitation. As part of their daily chores, she and her sister help their [...]

The Naqsh School of Arts (NSA) will be holding an exhibition by the end of November at the school’s new art gallery for the revival of Mughal decorative art. The exhibition, which will consist of over 50 art works by second year students, will be held at the Calligraphy and Painting Gallery in Bazar-e-Hakeeman, Bhaati [...]