Crackdown launched against black-marketing of masks amid Coronavirus fear
ISLAMABAD: Crackdown around the country has been launched against black marketing of respiratory masks and other items used for protection from Novel Coronavirus (NCV)...
Pakistan upgrades laboratory for Polio with Japanese assistance
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan with assistance of $3.3 million by Japan has upgraded Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio, which will boost Pakistan's capacity to swiftly track...
Smoking, asthma patients died in Keamari: Dr Azra Pechuho
KARACHI: Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho said the deaths in Keamari area had occurred among people whose lungs were compromised due to smoking...
Coronavirus named as ‘COVID-19’ by WHO
GENEVA: Coronavirus, a deadly virus was named by World Health Organization (WHO), the UN health agency as 'COVID-19' and given official name of the...
Pakistan to give free coronavirus test facility to Afghan patients
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to extend cooperation with Afghanistan, allowing free of cost tests for the suspected coronavirus patients, a virus that has already...
Two more polio cases surface in Sindh
KARACHI: Two more polio cases were surfaced in Sindh that took the tally to five in the province and 12 in Pakistan during the...
Government plans clean drinking water project: Fawad Chaudhry.
ISLAMABAD: Government has plan to ensure provision of clean drinking water to citizens in this regard clean and affordable drinking water project would be...
PHC orders to remove mobile phone’s towers near hospitals, schools
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday ordered to remove mobile towers set up near educational institutions and health facilities.
A bench of the...
Expansion of Sehat Insaf Card in doldrums
PESHAWAR: Expansion of Sehat Insaf Card scheme is in dorldrums, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government is unable to fulfill its claims as the program...
Biometric verification of all prisoners to be conducted
LAHORE: In the light of directions of Lahore High Court (LHC), the Punjab government, in a meeting presided over by Chief Secretary Punjab Major...
