PESHAWAR: Teaching and non-teaching employees of the University of Peshawar (UoP) have demanded that the institution be placed under federal administrative and financial control, alleging that the provincial government has failed to manage its affairs. The demand was issued during a protest on Friday over the non-payment of December salaries and pensions. Read More: KP government […]
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Times Higher Education ranking 2021: QAU stands out among first 100 Asia best
ISLAMABAD: Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) scores significantly on the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings by securing 100th position among the top 551 universities of the world, beating India’s three universities in the list – King George’s Medical University (=139th), Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (143rd) and Mahatma Gandhi University (154th). A record number […]
From Saur Revolution to the Taliban
On April 27, 1978, Afghanistan witnessed a bloody change of power, which came to be known as the Saur or the April Revolution. Noor Muhammad Tarakai of the Khalq faction became the president and the prime minister. Afghanistan was declared the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The Soviet Union was suspected of helping the PDPA into […]