Just this week, five fatal cases of the Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), commonly called Congo fever, have been reported in the country. Three of the deaths happened in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and two in Karachi. The deaths in Karachi – of two men
A tragic road accident on Rashid Minhas Road claimed the lives of a woman and a young girl early on 19 June 2025 morning when a speeding dumper loaded with gravel and sand overturned and crashed onto a double-cabin vehicle. Another woman
Girl gave contradictory statements which create doubt whether girl was really kidnapped or it was some personal issue KARACHI:A BEd first year student, who went missing from Joharabad and a report of her alleged kidnapping was lodged by her brother, has returned
Plans to launch an automated system to identify smoke-emitting vehicles KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to introduce a Smart Surveillance System to monitor and mitigate environmental pollution, said the provincial Secretary Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development Department Agha Shah Nawaz,
In a major step toward improving civil registration services in Sindh, the Local Government & Housing Town Planning Department (LG&HTP), Health Department, and National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on 15-May-2025 signed a trilateral agreement to enhance and expand digital birth registration
Boy dies, parents sustain injuries when dumper crushes their bike KARACHI: A 10-year-old boy, Samamah, lost his life, while his father, Rizwan, 35, and mother, Laraib, 30, sustained injuries when a speeding dumper truck hit the motorcycle they were riding, under the
At least 21 sanitary workers died in manholes and septic tanks in five year HYDERABAD: The Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC), while censuring the Sindh Local Government Department over the recent deaths of two sanitary workers in Umerkot, has lamented that the
Political leaders, social activists and business representatives staged a protest at the Jungshahi Railway Station on 27-April-2025 against the removal of the stop for the Ghaus Bahao-ud-Din Zakariya Express. The demonstrators said the closure of the stop had completely severed rail links
In the absence of adequate water treatment, water-borne diseases are spreading in the city KARACHI: Where the supply of water remains an incessant woe, plaguing the peace of locals in Karachi, it appears that even the measly quantity of water supplied to
Women in Pakistan are also unprotected everywhere, from homes to hospitals, grounds to graves, and roads to reels Violence Against Women (VAW), once treated as a forbidden text, is now a yardstick for measuring national progress. Gone are the days when declaring