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It was recently reported from Peshawar that the campaign “Sehat ka Insaf” which was to begin in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has been cancelled due to security reasons. Currently the security condition in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region has worsened because of the Pakistan-Taliban relationships. The two parties were expected to be involved […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) took a quick step seeing the growing worst condition of measles outbreak in Sindh and has launched a massive vaccination campaign across the province. The Organisation will target approximately 2.9 million children in eight different districts of Sindh. “Measles campaign has been planned upto 9th Jan, 2013 for eight districts […]
As a continuity of the orchestrated attack on polio campaigning teams, the World Health Organization (WHO) has directed its field staff to stop work in Pakistan. At least two people were killed and two others were injured when three teams involved in the nationwide polio vaccination drive were attacked in Peshawar, Nowshera and Charsadda, in […]
Terrorist attacks on volunteers of anti-polio teams in Karachi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday and Wednesday, which claimed lives of five women and a male in only 24 hours, have raised serious concern about the success of the campaign in Pakistan. All law enforcement agencies have miserably failed to apprehend the culprits who fled […]
Strongly condemning the firing incident at anti-polio campaigners and seeking arrest of the culprits, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has reiterated the resolve of the government that it would not rest until the country is rid of polio. While chairing a meeting of Polio Task Force in Islamabad, he said seeking a polio-free life […]
In another setback to the country’s polio eradication efforts, at least five anti-polio campaigners, four of them women, were gunned down in Karachi in an hour in two separate incidents on Tuesday. Reports said two women campaigners were on their duty in Gulshan-e-Buner area of Landhi when they were shot at and killed. Only […]
President Asif Ali Zardari has said that consistent economic policies will be ensured in the country. While addressing 36th Export Award Ceremony in Karachi on Tuesday night, he said that the PPP led government made constitutional reforms and is continuing war against terrorism throughout the country. He said we will make Pakistan more […]
The subject might not feature prominently in the news anymore but the effects of the devastating floods of last year carry on, unnoticed by the mainstream media. The news-item based media, in its limited concentration span, frames incidents and events on a discrete timeline, as if they were over and done with instantaneously. But here […]
The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, Ugandan health officials said on Saturday, ending weeks of speculation about the cause of a strange disease that had many people fleeing their homes. The officials and a World Health Organization representative told a news conference in Kampala Saturday that there is […]
The fear of the dengue virus is beginning to influence life as the most ferocious chills of winter have given way to spring in Punjab. According to the media reports people started arriving at hospital and clinics, fearing dengue in major cities, particularly in Lahore. Only handful patients are reportedly tested positive hitherto for the […]
‘IsoTab’ claims lives in Punjab: CM Shahbaz Sharif After losing over hundred lives, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has ultimately revealed the identification of the toxic medicine saying, “IsoTab was found to be adulterated with an anti-malarial.” The CM while addressing a news conference informed the media that the drug IsoTab, produced by Efroze Chemical […]
Food insecurity in Pakistan rises to 58%, National Nutritional Survey According to a survey conducted by National Nutritional Survey (NNS) in 2011, almost 58% of Pakistanis are food insecure. NNS expressed that the situation of food security has worsened by 8% in the past eight years, as it was recorded 50%, back in 2003. A […]
