While much of the world continues debating how to make education accessible, affordable and inclusive, Punjab has delivered one of the most extraordinary educational transformations of recent times. In just two years, 4,014,219 deserving children have been brought into free classrooms through the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF), a milestone that many developing countries have struggled […]
Counting
Counting Dead Bodies
Hassankhel and Hangu have delivered the same message in two forms. In one case, a policeman was kidnapped and martyred, the second such incident in the area within 72 hours. In the other, gunmen attacked police assigned to guard a polio team just as Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio drive of the year. A […]
Mali counts votes after poll worker slain
Vote counting was under way across Mali on Monday after a tense presidential runoff in which a poll worker was killed and 100 polling stations were forced to close due to the security threat from Islamist militants. Security had been drastically boosted ahead of the election’s second round between President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and former […]