Students across Pakistan have been left in limbo due to malfunction of the Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) degree verification system which has not been working since 10 days, sources told Geo News on Thursday. The degree verification of hundreds of students is in doubt amid prevailing uncertain situation and has also left those worried who intend to travel abroad for higher studies. The government body, each year, verifies degrees and provides education credentials-related services to hundreds if not thousands of students. HEC’s degree attestation or verification service is often utilised by students wishing to secure admissions into foreign educational institutions which often require…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
MUZAFFARGARH: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Moazzam Khan Jatoi, whom the party claimed was abducted, was actally arrested by the anti-corruption department of police, it came to light on Thursday. The PTI leader’s whereabouts came to the fore after he was handed over by the anti-corruption police to the Saddar police station of Muzaffargarh police. The anti-corruption body filed a case against the lawmaker as well in its department. District leadership of Jatoi’s party had claimed that unidentified persons had abducted him. PTI Muzaffargarh Secretary General Mahar Javed Hasan had said MNA Jatoi had gone missing since he was abducted by…
ISLAMABAD: Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday underscored the use of inappropriate language used by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) campaigner Sanam Javaid and sought guarantee against such conduct in future. During the hearing on Javaid’s plea seeking her release, Justice Aurangzeb said: “[I] saw [Sanam] Javaid using inappropriate language on the internet.” The PTI’s firebrand activist has been embroiled in legal battles for months and has faced arrests and rearrest in multiple cases related to the May 9 riots, triggered after former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan’s arrest in a graft case, which saw several…
KARACHI: The local government of Karachi Thursday held a builder of a private housing society responsible for deaths of two kids who fell into a manhole in Memon Goth area of Malir a day ago. The tragic incident on Wednesday claimed lives of two children, while three other young boys were rescued alive and shifted to the Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre. Health condition of those alive is critical. The tragedy struck when children had gathered at a Muharram sabeel in Ghafoor colony. As per police, the manhole cover broke up under the weight of children standing on it. People of the private…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday extended his well wishes to President Joe Biden of the United States, who has tested positive for COVID-19. The White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, announced the positive test for the 81-year-old Democratic leader on Wednesday after the president of UnidosUS, a Latino civil rights organisation, mentioned that Biden would not be able to attend a scheduled event due to the illness. Jean-Pierre added that despite being vaccinated and boosted, Biden was experiencing mild symptoms. Earlier, when boarding the Air Force Oneto travel from Las Vegas to recuperate in Delaware, Biden reassured reporters: “Good,…
ISLAMABAD: As country braces for monsoon rain, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued an alert warning of urban flooding in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other parts of the country. NDMA’s Emergencies Operation Centre, in its warning issued on Wednesday, said that monsoon rains and thundershowers are likely to hit Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Islamabad, KP and central and northeastern Punjab from July 17 to 21 with occasional gaps. The alert comes as the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Monday said that all four provinces including the AJK and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) regions will experience new spells of rain-wind and thundershowers from…
ISLAMABAD: Incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan is unlikely to walk free anytime soon, while Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led coalition government may prove a house of cards in the next one-and-a-half years amid economic uncertainties, forecast BMI, a Fitch Solutions company. “Despite several successful legal appeals, opposition leader Imran Khan will remain imprisoned for the foreseeable future,” predicted BMI, in its Pakistan Country Risk Report for the fourth quarter of the calendar year 2024. The risk evaluation company also painted a dire scenario for the ruling alliance, which is considering banning PTI as a political party over its alleged…
Whoopi Goldberg shared a unique and humorous story about how she honoured her late mother, Emma Harris, on Late Night with Seth Meyers on July 10. Goldberg, 68, revealed that she spread her mother’s ashes at Disneyland, prefacing the story with “No one should do this” and emphasising “Don’t do it” to the audience’s amusement. “My mother loved Disneyland, and so we took her to Disneyland,” she explained. “And when I was a kid, the World’s Fair was here, and it was the introduction of Small World, and she loved Small World.” Goldberg said she would “scoop some of her up” and…
Britney Spears has ended her relationship with Paul Soliz, a former housekeeper-turned-boyfriend, and has taken steps to remove him from her life. “She’s told her security guards to remove him from the entry list for her gated community [in Thousand Oaks, California],” a source revealed exclusively to In Touch. However, Soliz is reportedly not taking the breakup well and is “blabbing to everyone about his relationship with Britney, revealing all of her secrets.” The source added, “He’s tormenting her. No one would be surprised if he sold her story, too. Some even believe he was selling Britney out while he was still…
Kim Kardashian is exploring the impact of past trauma on her mental health. In a candid conversation with her sister Khloé Kardashian on the July 18 episode of The Kardashians, Kim revealed that she’s been attending therapy sessions and has had significant breakthroughs. She also opened up about the lasting effects of the 2016 Paris robbery, sharing how the traumatic experience has left deep emotional scars. “[My therapist] was like, ‘You think calm is your superpower. I think you are so desensitized from trauma that you literally are frozen in fight or flight,'” she recalled. “So then she was like, ‘One…
