Tuesday, October 10th, 2017
Malala attends her first lecture at Oxford
LONDON, OCT 10 (DNA) – Malala Yousafzai’s unbending passion towards education and 5 years since she was shot by Taliban during her campaigning for girls education; has started her new journey at Oxford. The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner earlier tweeted a picture from her first class at Oxford University. Earlier in August, 20-year-old Yousafzai passed her A-level exam and was accepted at Oxford university s Margaret Hall College to study philosophy, politics and economics. In 2012, she wrote an anonymous diary about the life of a school going girl underRead More
Use of pellet guns in IHK ‘first mass blinding in human history’: Maleeha Lodhi
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan told the UN on Monday that India’s use of pellet guns against peaceful protesters in Indian held Kashmir has left many young Kashmiris blinded, saying the move amounted to “first mass blinding in human history”. Speaking in the General Assembly’s Special Political and Decolonisation (Fourth) Committee, Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi also said the UN’s decolonisation agenda would remain incomplete without settling the Kashmir dispute on the basis of Security Council resolutions that pledged the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people. She emphasised that implementation of theRead More
Punjab boards announce Intermediate Part-I 2017 results
LAHORE, OCT 10 (DNA) – All Punjab Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education announced the results of Higher Secondary School Certificate Part-I annual Examination 2017 on Tuesday.
Second Test: Pakistan fightback sets up intriguing finish
DUBAI: Asad Shafiq and Sarfraz Ahmed hit fighting half-centuries on Monday to thwart Sri Lanka and set up an enthralling finish to the second and final day-night Test in Dubai. Shafiq scored an unbeaten 86 while skipper Ahmed was 57 not out as they lifted Pakistan from a perilous position at 52-5 to 198-5 at close after being set a daunting target of 317. The pair added 146 for the unbroken sixth-wicket stand to leave Pakistan needing another 119 runs with five wickets in hand to level the series. SriRead More