ISLAMABAD: National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) will provide technical and skill development training to about 490,000 youth living in the remote areas through short-term skill  development project.

ISLAMABAD: Dr. Javaid R. Laghari, Chairperson, Higher Education Commission (HEC) has urged the universities to strengthen their indigenous quality culture and make wholehearted efforts to improve their international visibility. According to press release issued here …

The New York-based press watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), is working to promote press freedom in the world. Recently CPJ launched a global report in which it was stated that at least 19 journalists …

Karachi: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has demanded immediate release of radio journalist Saleem Rehman Afridi who is in the custody of the local police in Peshawar since Thursday night (June 2). Saleem Rehman, …

ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Scholarship Management Committee, which is the steering committee under HEC-USAID Merit and Needs based Program, has approved cases of 99 needy students for the academic year 2010-11. According to the …

PESHAWAR: Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Barrister Masood Kausar has said, missionary zeal and spirit is must to serve the field of education and to produce good students, citizens and experts in their respective fields as …

State Department called on the Pakistani government to investigate the murder of an investigative journalist.
Several organizations including The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) stands with journalists in Pakistan as Pakistan has been declared the most …

Foreign media and organizations will always say that freedom of expression and free journalism is something alien to Pakistani society. They know that yet they push young reporters to file stories that land them/their families …

WASHINGTON: The United States has strongly condemned the abduction and killing of a Pakistani investigative reporter, who had published an article alleging that al-Qaeda had infiltrated the Pakistan Navy and carried out the recent attack …

ISLAMABAD: Saleem Shahzad Pakistani journalist has been found dead in Mandi Bahuddin after writing about links between the Pakistani military and al Qaeda, officials said Tuesday. Syed Saleem Shahzad, 40, worked for an Italian news …