FBISE announces scholarships for Madrassa students
Islamabad
April 24, 2021
Islamabad : Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) on the directions of Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mehmood, has announced scholarships programme for Madrassa students.
According to Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training on Friday, Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood has directed the Federal Board to award as many as 20 scholarships to those male and female Madrassa students who get higher marks in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) examinations.
On the directions of Shafqat Mahmood, Federal Board would provide an amount of Rs25,000 as a scholarships to the students who showed outstanding performance in SSC exams.
Punjab Textbook Board says it can’t restrict entire religious content to Islamiat
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April 24, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) has said that it can only implement the SC’s one-man commission’s direction calling for the exclusion of all religious content from different subjects and restricting it to Islamiat with the approval of the provincial cabinet, Muttahida Ulema Board (MUB) and National Curriculum Council (NCC).
In its letter written to the concerned authorities on April 20, 2021, the MD PCTB said that the ‘decision’ of the one-man commission, as conveyed to it by the HR and Minorities Department, was placed before the PCTB’s board in its 81st meeting on April 19.
Punjab Textbook Board says it can t restrict entire religious content to Islamiyat
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April 24, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) has said that it can only implement the SC’s one-man commission’s direction calling for the exclusion of all religious content from different subjects and restricting it to Islamiat with the approval of
the provincial cabinet, Muttahida Ulema Board (MUB) and National Curriculum Council (NCC).
In its letter written to the concerned authorities on April 20, 2021, the MD PCTB said that the ‘decision’ of the one-man commission, as conveyed to it by the HR and Minorities Department, was placed before the PCTB’s board in its 81st meeting on April 19.
Islamabad
April 23, 2021
Islamabad : President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi on Monday called upon the universities to evaluate the needs of differently-abled Persons (DAPs) to make the buildings friendly for the persons with disabilities and identify their respective issues.
In order to facilitate the DAPs to pursue higher studies, he emphasized the need for making the infrastructure of the university buildings friendly to the differently-abled students. He said that both the public and private sector universities must make steady progress in this direction. He also underlined the need for concrete efforts to address the growing menace of drug usage in the universities so as to provide a drug-free environment at the educational institutions.
Violation of Constitution Does Not Serve Pakistan: PCMR
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LAHORE, Pakistan: The People’s Commission on Minority Rights (PCMR), a Civil Society Organ, has expressed its dismay over the news circulating in media, purporting that the Chairman of the National Commission on Minorities (NCM) Mr. Chela Ram has supported the violation of the fundamental right of religious minorities guaranteed under the Article 22 of Constitution of Pakistan.
In a joint statement on behalf of the PCMR, Justice (retd) Kailashnath Kohli, Advocate Kalpana Devi, M Parkash Mehtani, Dr. A H Nayyar, and Peter Jacob said that Mr. Ram apparently was uninformed of the opinion of educationists, the recent directions of the Supreme Court as well as Pakistan constitution on the subject.