Volume VIII, Issue-2, February 2018 7,500 Students from Across Pakistan to Participate in Math Challenge 2018
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Volume VIII, Issue-2, February 2018 February in History 7,500 students from across Pakistan to participate in Math Challenge 2018 Feb 2, 1948: Urdu is declared the national language of Pakistan. Feb 8, 1949: Azad Kashmir Government shifts its capital Feb 9, 1951: First census begins in Pakistan. Feb 21, 1956: Constituent Assembly decides the country shall be a Federal Re - public known as Islamic Republic of Pak - istan. Feb 2, 1957: President Iskandar Mirza laid down the foundation-stone of Guddu Barrage. Feb 24, 1960: Presidential Cabinet decides to name the new Capital as Islamabad. Feb 3, 1960: Prominent poet and Pakistan's Guinness world record holder Dr. Muhammad Saeed Fazal Karim Bee - bani born in Rawalpindi. Feb 16, 1971: Korakaram Highway, link - On February 1, 2018, DAWN and quizzes and announcements of ing China and Pakistan, opened. Feb 13, 1973: Begum Rana Liaquat Ali EDeQUAL hosted a launch important event dates for all What’s inside: becomes first woman to assume office of session for the Math Challenge participants, from both public and Sindh Governor. 2018 at Karachi School of Business private sector schools. Feb 21, 1974: Pakistan recognizes and Leadership (KSBL). F World's first novel translated Bangladesh. Math Challenge 2018 intends to to Urdu in Pakistan Feb 22, 1974: Islamic Summit Math Challenge 2018 is a test the students' analytical and Conference starts in Lahore; 22 heads of team-based, inter-school, national problem solving skills in three F This dancer defies social taboos state participated. competition for students studying rounds: preliminary, regional and to promote Pakhtun culture Feb 1, 1978: Allama Iqbal's Lahore house in grades 7, 8, 9 and 10. The com - national. is declared national monument. petition will be based on a live Quaid-i-Azam University Feb 5, 1990: Kashmir Solidarity Day ob - game show format using the latest F For the preliminary round, there breaks into top 100 of Asia served for the first time quiz technology systems, and will will be pools of eight to nine teams University Rankings 2018 Feb 22, 1992: Nawaz Sharif introduces have students use tablets and with each team comprising four yellow-cab taxi scheme. computers to solve math problems students. A team will have two Feb 11, 1996: Cricket World Cup and work around analytical students from junior classes and F Public private partnerships jointely hosted by Pakistan, India and Sri challenges. take root in Sindh, Punjab Lanka. two from senior classes. Feb 23, 1997: Nawaz Sharif launches "Qarz utaro Mulk sanwaro" scheme. De - Each round of the challenge will For the regional and national F Karachi: The city of decay clares Sunday, instead of Friday as weekly hold a mix of questions, covering a rounds, there will be 12 teams of holiday. wide range of topics. As many as participants that will compete. F Iranian film festival kicks off in Feb 20, 1999: Pakistan Crushed India by 7,500 participants from schools all Karachi 46 runs in inaugural Asian test over Pakistan have registered for Towards the end, Math Challenge championship the competition. 2018 will announce two champions F 16th Mystic Music Sufi Festival Feb 21, 1999: Lahore Declaration is and two runners up in a closing kicks off in Lahore signed by Nawaz Sharif & A. B.Vajpayee . Thursday's session included prac - event which will be held at the Feb 16, 2009: Pakistan government an - tice questions, round structures, a same venue in Karachi. nounces a truce with Taliban, accepting a F First-ever transgender scout general Q&A session, sample Courtesy: Dawn system of Islamic law in the Swat valley. batch takes oath in Karachi Positive Post is published to project positivity all around Pakistan amongst our youth and the entire nation. Our efforts are to inculcate patriotism and a sense of ownership in them. It is a compilation of news extracted by the students of Mass Communications and Media Studies of Greenwich University. World's first novel translated to Urdu in Pakistan The translation for Japanese novel closer to the conclusion,” it was 'Tale of Genji' will be coming this disclosed by journalist Khurram year Sohail at the Japanese Consulate, who added that the Urdu transla - The Tale of Genji, the world’s first tion would be a big achievement novel penned in the 11th century, is once completed as it was not an now being translated from its easy book to translate. original Japanese form into Urdu in Pakistan and is expected to be “Many have attempted and failed completed by the end of 2018. on getting lost in the story that the kingdom becomes extremely to help you follow The Tale of moves in several directions simulta - jealous of and starts plotting Gengi,” he added. This was disclosed at the Pakistan neously,” he explained. against. When she bears a son as Japan Literature Forum at the Japan beautiful as she is, the baby be - Journalist and guest speaker Information and Culture Centre in “Even the well-known Urdu writer comes the emperor’s favourite Rafaqat Hayat also commented the Japanese Consulate here on in India Syed Ehtesham Hussain prince giving way to more envy es - about how wonderful it was that Wednesday, although they thought tried it, but was only able to write pecially from the mother of the em - the novel even though written so it rather premature to share the an abridged version, giving just the peror’s other son, the crown prince. long ago on a scroll, managed to name of the translator for now. gist of the actual story,” he said. “The novel which talks of emper - survive through the years. He said ors, concubines, samurai, aristo - that some people, particularly those There are several translations of Later, a few pages from the cratic society in ancient Japan, etc, in the West, believed Miguel de this classic work of Japanese litera - abridged Urdu translation were even had to be translated into easy Cervantes’ Don Quixote to be the ture written by a noblewoman, read out to the audience giving a Japanese during the 1800s so that first novel of the world. “But we Murasaki Shikibu, in the early years glimpse of the story. the Japanese people could read and now know that it is The Tale of of the 11th century including many understand it. And it was another Gengi,” he said. “It would be great in English. “The Pakistani writer Genji is a son of a Japanese em - 50 years before its English transla - to be able to read the classic work working on his translation has been peror who falls madly in love with tion could come out for the rest of of literature in our own Urdu,” he at it for a while now and is currently a beautiful young concubine Kirit - the world to be introduced to it,” said. working six hours a day as he gets subo, whom every other woman in said Mr Sohail. “You also get guides Courtesy: Dawn Punjab govt prepares booklet to create awareness among children Bill suggests increasing about sexual abuse punishment for animal cruelty Punjab government has decided to sexual abuse is not a ridiculous idea The Senate Standing Committee impart sex education among chil - and religious clerics were also in on Interior passed a bill titled “The dren studying in schools and semi - favour of creating awareness among Prevention of Cruelty to Animals naries following a recent upsurge in children on this subject," Sanaullah (Amendment) Bill, 2018”, which the reporting of sexual abuse cases maintained. was moved by Senator Karim across Pakistan. Ahmed Khawaja. "Teach your children not to let any - Punjab Law Minister Rana one touch their private parts," he Members of the committee com - Sanaullah, while announcing this urged the parents and asked them mended Senator Khawaja for decision during a press conference to play their due role in curbing sex - bringing forward a bill for animal on Friday, said the provincial gov - ual abuse in the society. "Children rights as the last law regarding ernment has prepared a booklet, in should be able to share their feel - animal rights was made in 1890 consultation with religious clerics, ings when they feel fear or panic." and no amendments to the law to educate children . have been made since. The minister said it was obligatory provides guidance to parents, he “It was quite embarrassing that we "Initially, the booklet has been com - for parents to provide separate beds said, adding that the booklet would were using the animal rights [laws] piled for young children, however, to their children when they turn 10. be provided to all students and that the British had introduced in another booklet has also been com - teachers in each and every school 1890 despite the fact that Islam piled which would be introduced The brochure would be revised after and seminary. stresses on animal rights. More - for students in grade 8 and above," every six to 12 months, the minister over, I have suggested increasing the minister said. said, adding that the government It was compiled with the help and fines because the current fines would launch an alert system for consultation of the Muttahida were so insignificant that no one Sanaullah further said that Punjab missing children. Ulema Board, the law minister said. cares about them,” Senator Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ap - The booklet is aimed at providing Khawaja said while talking to . proved the draft of the booklet after Punjab Auqaf and Religious Affairs guidance to children of age 10 and a committee, constituted for pre - Minister Zaeem Qadri also ad - The fine for killing an animal with above.