Unidentified assailants believed to be local drug dealers launched a violent attack on a police-supervised rehabilitation centre in Orangi Town’s Mominabad area on the night between 17 & 18 May-2025, causing extensive damage to the building and freeing scores of recovering addicts.
In a significant breakthrough for Pakistan’s polio eradication efforts, the number of refusal cases in Karachi has dropped significantly in the latest campaign — one of the lowest figures in recent years. This marked decline reflects intensified efforts by the Sindh Health
SHRC team finds patients sitting on floor outside OPDs HYDERABAD: Unavailability of clean drinking water, absence of cleanliness and sanitation, power outages with no backup systems, poor infrastructure, and shortage of staff, is all a team of the Sindh Human Rights Commission
Sindh chief secretary Syed Asif Hyder Shah on 15-May-2025 chaired a meeting with the chairman of the One-Man commission on minority rights and their welfare and said the Sindh government had installed CCTV cameras at 253 religious sites of minority communities, while
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) was set up to alleviate poverty and provide financial assistance to the most vulnerable sections of society. However, recent protests by women beneficiaries have highlighted how unscrupulous BISP employees and scammers are harassing and defrauding them.
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
Poor law enforcement, wide circulation of drugs has disturbed the psychological wellbeing of young adults. KARACHI: For most young people, minor quarrels with parents over study routines, sleep schedules and even friend hangouts are a normal part of growing up, however, when
A deadly wave of obesity is sweeping across Pakistan, killing men at younger ages, causing infertility among women, and fueling chronic illnesses in children, health experts warned on 12-May-2025. Terming obesity the “mother of all non-communicable diseases”, they said the crisis is
KARACHI: The Sindh government, in collaboration with Unicef, has decided to develop a five-year multi-sectoral roadmap aimed at addressing the education needs of out-of-school children and adolescents. Under this initiative, a strategy will be formulated to identify and eliminate barriers hindering access
KARACHI: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Sindh Assembly on 6th May directed the provincial government to establish population welfare centres in all 1,600 union councils (UCs) across the province to control rising birth rate. The PAC meeting, presided over by