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KP enacting law to make education compulsory for all children
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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has finally decided to enact the much awaited laws on compulsory education, regularisation of private schools and recruitment of school specific and non-transferable teachers.
Published in Dawn on December 7, 2015
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Only 17 terror executions after APS tragedy
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LAHORE - The deaths caused by terrorists run into thousands but only seventeen high-profile executions have been carried out in the last one year after the tragic incident of APS School in Peshawar on December 16, an official document revealed.
Published in The Nation on December 16, 2015
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FIA nabs 20 grey traffickers
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LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency has arrested 20 grey traffickers who were using some 1,300 GSM active SIMs, showing that Biometric Verification System (BVS) could not help much in its misuse.
Published in Dawn on December 16, 2015
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45 females among 127 committed suicide in a month: HRCP
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ISLAMABAD: One-twenty-seven people including forty-five women had committed suicide across the country last month, said a report of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).
Published in The News on December 15, 2015
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Bleak justice
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ON Dec 16 last year almost 150 people, mostly schoolchildren, were brutally murdered in Peshawar. In its wake the country decided that business as usual could not carry on and so was formulated the National Action Plan. A key plank of the NAP was the establishment of military courts to ‘ensure’ that terrorists were meted out justice. The argument was based on the premise that civilian courts, even anti-terrorism courts, were either too afraid or too procedurally cumbersome to deal with such cases.
Published in Dawn on December 16, 2015
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