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BATTAGRAM, Pakistan - Ibrar Ahmed is relieved to be alive after being stuck on a cable car high over a river in northern Pakistan for 16 hours this week, but now the student wonders how he will make the arduous trek to class each day. "God willing, I am going to continue with my studies, but the way to our...

Pakistan has the worlds second-lowest rate of school attendance

Ordeal exposes challenges of remote education access and infrastructure gaps, calls for infrastructure improvements

For students in areas like Battagram who risk their lives to go to school, that cannot come fast enough.

Numerous accidents have occurred in the past and mostly the local people themselves with some help from the local police rescue the stranded people, says a former policeman

The owner and operator of a stricken cable car that dangled over a Pakistan ravine for more than 12 hours have been arrested after repeatedly ignoring safety warnings, police said Thursday.

Survivors, families recall how panic eventually gave way to relief; cable car owner, operator arrested.

The six children had been on their way to school accompanied by two adults when the chairlift broke down Tuesday morning midway through its journey. | World News

PESHAWAR: The owner and operator of a stricken cable car that dangled over a ravine for more than 12 hours have been...

‘The cables being utilised were of subpar quality, and the machines were also in need of overhauling,’ said police in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.