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Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa has warned of a national crisis in the days to come if the multitude of out-of-school children do not get education.
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“The private school system only caters to a fraction while a huge number of children are not being taught and eventually may become a national security issue in future,” feared the chief justice while heading a three-judge bench seized with a set of cases relating to educational institutions and increase...

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PUBLIC EDUCATION IS NOT A RIGHT IN MANY COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD

Why haven’t past education reforms had more effect?
Read more: https://www.dawn.com/news/1480835/
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Prism

May 8 at 4:00 AM

Why haven’t past education reforms had more effect?

"Around 30pc of students do not reach sixth grade, and enrollment lags behind relatively poorer countries in Africa and Asia that have achieved near universal primary enrollment."

DAWN.COM

The Analytical Angle: Why haven’t past education reforms had more effect?

When so many reforms are developed independently, they are prone to contradict each other.

today’s editorial cartoon by Zahoor. DAWN..COM PAKISTAN

THE WAR ON THE SUFIS CONTINUES

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, which killed at least eight people.

DW.COM

Pakistan: Deadly bomb blast at Sufi shrine in Lahore

Police say a bomb targeting security forces guarding a Sufi shrine has detonated in the city of Lahore. At least eight people are believed to have been killed so far, with many more wounded.

The blast, a day after the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, went off at a police checkpoint near the Data Darbar, one of the largest Muslim shrines in South Asia.

TELESURENGLISH.NET

Deadly Blast Hits Sufi Shrine in Pakistan, 9 Killed

"Police was the prime target in this attack. We are collecting forensic evidences to ascertain the nature of the blast," said Ashfaq Khan, de

Dawn.com

May 8 at 2:14 AM

Prime Minister #ImranKhan took to Twitter to condemn the explosion targeting Elite Force vehicle near #DataDarbar in #Lahore today.
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#LahoreBlast #DawnToday

EDITORIAL: According to media reports, Hizbul Ahrar, said to be a splinter faction of the local Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Of course, this is not the first time that a Sufi shrine has been attacked in Pakistan.

DAWN.COM

Data Darbar blast

The families of the martyred personnel must be looked after by the state.

With the death toll in Wednesday’s Data Darbar shrine blast rising to 11 on Thursday, law enforcement agencies shifted focus to three major terrorist networks of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Punjab to lay their hands on handlers/facilitators.

Talking about investigation into the suicide blast, a senior police officer told Dawn that two high-profile teams of the law enforcement agencies had been assigned the task to go after three offshoots of the TTP and t...

Some radical religious activists, taking it as a violation of the Ehteram-i-Ramazan Ordinance, objected to the operation of heatstroke centres during the fasting hours. They told operators of several centres to shut them “or face the consequences”, according to Mr Taufiq Bandhani, SMC’s contractor of the centres.

After repeatedly issuing such threats and getting annoyed by the operators’ defiance, a group of armed radicals stormed the Ayub Goth centre and forced its operators to shut it down. They fired into the air making the operators flee.

#DawnToday

When asked why he was being detained, police said "we'll sort that out later".

I LOVE IT SITUATIONIST OR SURREALIST EITHER WAY IT EXPOSES THE POLICE STATE WE ALL LIVE UNDER TO ONE DEGREE OR ANOTHER

BBC.COM

Kazakh detained over empty placard vigil