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Govt working to bring uniformity in education system: PM ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the National Education Policy Framework (NEPF) is being devised to bring uniformity in existing fragmented apartheid system of education. He vowed that the objective is to create a nation and to put in place a system which is ‘fair’ and ‘produces Pakistanis’. He chaired a briefing on NEPF here at Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Wednesday. The briefing was attended by Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood, Punjab Education Minister Murad Rass, Adviser Education KP Ziaullah Bangash, federal and provincial secretaries for education and senior officers. The Minister for Federal Education & Professional Training gave a detailed presentation on the National Education Policy Framework identifying various challenges vis-a-vie out of school children, education apartheid, quality of education and skill development issues. He said that NEPF is being formulated with an obje

LAHORE : Punjab Minister for Information and Culture Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chohan has said that former President Asif Zardari and former Premier Nawaz Sharif have joined hands to protect each other's corruption, but this time there will be no "amnesty" for them. "How can the PPP leaders deny that their leader has nothing to do with these accounts, when Zardari himself has admitted before the media that the accounts in question belong to him", the minister maintained."Our opponents may do what they want but the PTI government will Insha Allah complete its five-year tenure under the dynamic leadership of Imran Khan", said the Punjab information minister while talking to the media persons on Wednesday. He said Zardari's politics had caused an irreparable loss to the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which once was the party of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He said the anti-corruption authorities had traced around 5,000 fake accounts having billions of rupe

Us chooses wrong path on sanctions, says Rowhani. Washington intends to step up enforcement of sanctions. The United States has chosen the wrong path in reimposing sanctions on Iran and will be defeated, Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said on Wednesday, according to the Tasnim news agency. Washington reinstated sanctions targeting Iran oil industry on Nov 5 as it seeks to force the Islamic Republic to accept tougher curbs on its nuclear programmed, halt its development of ballistic missiles as well as its support for proxy forces in Syria, Iraq Lebanon and Yemen. The Americans will definitely be defeated in this path. The path they have chosen is wrong and incorrect Rowhani said. if they are being honest and they are looking for regional security this is not the path. If they are being honest and respect the Iranian people this is not the path he added. they have made the measles more infamous in the world and in front of our people. its clear for everyone that the incorr

Kabul to hand over SP's Tahir Khan Dawar boy today because Afghan authorities have decided to carry out a post-Mortem on a police officer kidnapped in Islamabad, his body will be handed over to Pakistani officials on Thursday, according to sources. SP Tahir Khan Dawar, who was Chief of Peshawar police's rural circle, was kidnapped in the G-10/4 Area of Islamabad on October 26 and a body said to be his was found in Afghan province of Nangarhar.