KARACHI: The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) has expanded its newborn screening process to include inherited metabolic disorders, marking the introduction of a powerful lab tool for the first time in a clinical setting in Pakistan. According to experts, metabolic disorders refer
The Sindh High Court on Tuesday set aside the acquittal of a retired schoolteacher in a child molestation case and remanded back the case to a sessions court for trial de novo. The order came on suo moto criminal revision application with
As Pakistan continued reeling from the exogenous shock of accelerated climate impacts, it also became clear to many of us that global warming was not changing course. The year 2030 was the dangerous as well as the decisive decade. Pakistan was clearly
BY virtue of the 18th Amendment, all labour laws were devolved to the provinces, which then got the authority to amend them or make new laws. They have been doing so but the lack of coordination among them has caused acute differences
KARACHI: Outgoing Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has granted special remission of 120 days, or four months, to the convicts on the occasion of 76th Independence Day. Home Secretary Aijaz Ali Shah issued an official notification to this effect. It
A small anecdote sums up the cognitive confusion and lack of social or political investment about the environment and climate change in high places in Pakistan. When I took over the Federal Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination in April 2022,
Members of minority communities and rights activists in Karachi have demanded an end to religiously-motivated crimes, including abductions, harassment, forced marriages, and rape of women and girls of religious minorities, apart from the protection of communal and worship places of minority communities.
Sindh police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon on Saturday conducted a meeting to review progress in investigations in various cases and the ongoing crackdown against the narcotics mafia, and directed that police officers should eliminate all types of crime and organized crime. The
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and the provincial local government department to submit a report on the efforts being made to implement the Supreme Court’s directions about the affected residents of the Gujjar Nullah and
HYDERABAD: As many as 207 daily wage earners — associated with the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation as sanitation workers, most of them for almost 18 years — have been retrenched with a single stroke of pen. According to the municipal commissioner, they had