Pakistan polio vaccine teams on edge after fatal attacks

ISLAMABAD: Polio workers across Pakistan were instructed to remain vigilant after multiple attacks on vaccination teams killed at least three people this week. The latest...

Army Chief General Bajwa inaugurates new blocks at CMH Rawalpindi

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa inaugurated new blocks at Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi. According to a press release issued by the ISPR...

Shaukat Khanum should be nationalized: Dr. Nafisa Shah

PESHAWAR: Secretary Information Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians Dr. Nafisa Shah MNA in her reaction to the press conference by three jesters of PTI government...

PFA seals two factories over fake, substandard production in Lahore

LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) sealed two factories preparing fake soft drinks and pickles during separate actions. Headed by its Director General (DG), the...

Over 100 million people worldwide facing food crisis

GENEVA: A report presented jointly by the European Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the UN World Food Programme...

Malnutrition: Five more children die in Tharparkar, toll in 2019 mounts to 193

THARPARKAR: Malnutrition and epidemics continues to claim more lives as five more children expired during 24 hours, health department said on Saturday. Five children expired...

Govt urged to formulate comprehensive, multi-sectoral tobacco control policy

ISLAMABAD: Experts said existing tobacco control laws and subordinate legislation in the form multiple Statutory Regulatory Orders (SROs) in Pakistan only targeting smoking ad ban,...

Buzdar directs special counters for kidney transplant in teaching hospitals

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has directed to set up special counters for kidney transplant in teaching hospitals of the province. He issued the...

Child marriages must be controlled to avoid cervical cancer

LAHORE, MARCH 03 Director Punjab University Institute of Social and Cultural Studies (ISCS), Prof Dr Rubeena Zakar has said that child marriages must be controlled...

Campus dress code- University bans wearing jeans, sleeveless shirts

LAHORE: The University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore has banned wearing jeans for its students, INP news agency reported on Saturday The Institute of Business...