Author name: Ishfaq Khalil

The novel coronavirus that first emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 continues to impact the lives of people and is affecting all segments of the population across the world equally. Like in other countries, due to widespread of Covid-19 in Pakistan, owing to several restrictions imposed economically and socially, there is an exponential increase […]

COVID-19 outbreak was first time experienced in the Wuhan City of China at the end of December 2019. Different steps have been taken worldwide for the control of COVID-19. Even with less resources Pakistan also taken rigorous measures like designed special hospitals, laboratories for testing, quarantine facilities, awareness campaign and lock down to control the

This fact based informative booklet is construed from a study based on primary data gathered from 10 districts of Balochistan that includes Quetta, Pishin,Noshki, Khuzdar, Nasirabad, Jaffarabad, Loralai, Lasbella, Sibi and Kohlu.The study reached out to three core groups, i.e. Adults (including parents, SRHR experts, media personnel, religious scholars, policy makers, transgender individuals and people

This fact b ased informative booklet is construed from a study based on primary data gathered from 10 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that includes Mansehra, Swat,Lower Dir, Kohat, Karak, D.I. Khan, Noshera, Peshawar, Mardan and Bannu. The study reached out to three core groups, i.e. Adults (including parents, SRHR experts, media personnel, religious scholars, policy

This fact based informative booklet is construed from a study based on primary data gathered from 10 districts of Punjab that includes Faisalabad,Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Chakwal, Lahore, Vehari, Muzaffargarh, Multan, Kasur and Rajanpur.The study reached out to three core groups, i.e. Adults (including parents, SRHR experts, media personnel, religious scholars, policy makers, transgenderindividuals and

This fact based informative booklet is construed from a study based on primary data gathered from 10 districts of Sindh that includes Mirpur Khas, Thatta, Dadu,Hyderabad, Karachi East, Larkana, Sukkur, Umer Kot, Karachi Central and Sanghar. The study reached out to three core groups, i.e. Adults (including parents, SRHR experts, media personnel, religious scholars, policy

Since 2013, Balochistan has made some progress in curtailing teacher absenteeism, identifying ghost schools and partially addressing the inequality between the numbers of primary schools and the number of middle and high schools. Between 2011–2012 and 2016–17, the budget for education rose from Rs. 22.66 billion to Rs. 48.61 billion. However, significant challenges remain. While

Overview Since 2008, governments in KP have made efforts to improve school facilities and infrastructure, increase budgets and invest in teachers. During the last five years, KP is the only province that has regularly allocated more than 20% of total budgets to education. In 2011–2012 the total allocation for education stood at Rs. 63.17 billion.