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Tribal women in Kurram Agency continue to be a commodity even today under the age-old tribal customary law known as Turizona. They are categorised as ‘married,’ ‘virgin,’ ‘widow’ and ‘abducted’ with each one of them carrying a different price tag. Turizona, an initiative undertaken in 1931 by Maj Ross Hurst, the then political agent of Kurram Agency, categorises women in …

National Oct. 02: The ECP reactivated its ‘political finance wing’. Highlights The Wing was initially set up three years ago to investigate the assets of political parties and elected representatives. It is the brainchild of former ECP secretary Ishtiak Ahmad Khan. Director PR of ECP, Altaf Ahmad, has been given additional charge as director of the Wing. Article 218(3) of …

Sl.No Report title Organisation 1. Asian Development Outlook ADB (Asian Development bank) 2. Global Financial System Report BIS (Bank for International Settlements) 3. Global Money Laundering Report FATF (Financial Action Task Force) 4. India State of Forest Report Forest Survey of India 5. Change the World List Data Fortune 6. Technical Cooperation Report IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) 7. Nuclear Technology …

Sr# No Index Organisation 1. Child Development Index Save the Children 2. Corruption Perceptions Index Transparency International (TI) 3. Democracy Index Economist Intelligence Unit 4. Ease of doing business index World Bank Group 5. Education Index UNDP 6. EF English Proficiency Index EF Education First 7. Environmental Democracy Index (EDI) The Access Initiative (TAI) and the World Resources Institute(WRI) 8. Environmental Performance …

Sep 30: The government firmly rejected India`s claim of carrying out surgical strikes across the LoC. Sep 30: USAID and five Pakistani banks — HBL, MCB, Faysal Bank, Meezan Bank and JS Bank signed 15-year partnership agreement to provide up to a 50% percent guarantee for loans made for clean energy projects. Sep 30: The Ministry of Interior prepared a …

Sep 29: Indian forces fired across the Line of Control (LoC) in AJK, killing at least two Pakistan Army soldiers while calling it surgical strikes against “terrorism launch pads”. What’s a surgical strike and how it is carried out? A surgical strike is a swift, covert military attack designed to destroy specific targets. Such an assault results in damage only …

World Heart Day is celebrated on September 29 every year. The Day was founded in 2000 to inform people that heart disease and stroke are the world’s leading causes of death, claiming 17.3 million lives each year. The number of deaths per year due to CVD, according to the WHF, is more than the number of deaths due to cancer, …

Sep 28: The IMF Executive Board completed the twelfth and final review of Pakistan’s three-year economic reform programme, enabling immediate disbursement of the final tranche of about $102.1 million. About IMF Program The executive board approved a 3-year arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Pakistan on Sept 4, 2013 The Facility was about $6.15 billion, or 216 per …

Oct. 3 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Oct. 4 Nobel Prize in Physics Oct. 5 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Oct. 6 (possible date) Nobel Prize in Literature Note: According to tradition, the exact date for this prize is only announced shortly before it is presented. However, it very often falls on the Thursday ahead of the peace prize.) Oct. …

The military high command has sent the prime minister the dossiers of four main contenders. Lieutenant General Javed Iqbal Ramday Lieutenant General Javed Iqbal Ramday is currently the commander of XXXI Corps. Previously, he was the President of the National Defence University (NDU). He led a 2009 operation to drive the Pakistani Taliban militant movement from Swat Valley near the …