To be born unwanted and abandoned to a risky future is the worst fate for a new life. According to yesterday’s report in Dawn, since 2021, the Edhi Foundation has buried 576 newborns in Karachi — 200 in 2021, 289 in 2022
HYDERABAD: With poverty, malnutrition and domestic violence continuing to compel the people to take their own lives, the district administration has sought intervention of the Sindh Mental Health Authority while the police are mobilising the civil society activists to sensitise communities. Tharparkar Deputy
KARACHI: The unrestrained dairy farmers on Monday continued to add miseries on people with increased price of fresh milk as the city administration failed to enforce the officially notified Rs180 per litre price of milk in several parts of the city. While
KARACHI: Zulfiqar Ali can still vividly recall the day that he was summoned to a garbage skip near the Civil Hospital. A driver with the Edhi ambulance service with 14 years of experience, when he reached the spot, Ali was confronted with
The Sindh High Court has directed the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) to demolish an unauthorized construction in Block-14 of FB Area and submit a compliance report. The direction came on a petition with regard to an unauthorized construction. The petitioner submitted
The Sindh health department has taken action against absentee doctors and issued show-cause notices to 507 such doctors over the past 17 months. Also, 54 doctors who were absent from duty have submitted their resignations, and 39 doctors have been terminated from
KARACHI: While the Sindh High Court has given strict directives against cultivation of vegetables using sewage, a report of the Sindh Food Authority (SFA) has revealed that the exercise is still being carried out on the outskirts of the metropolis, it emerged
“A social protection profile of Pakistan” is a publication by International Labour Organization (ILO) based on their study to highlight gaps and good practices in Pakistan’s social protection system, and to develop actionable recommendations for making the system more effective and inclusive.
The document is a handbook jointly published by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). It provides guidance to National Human Rights Institutions on how to integrate HIV
A petroleum company has taken a significant step towards reducing plastic waste and promoting environmentally friendly practices by introducing a plastic-infused road in Karachi. In a statement released on Monday, Shell Pakistan announced its collaboration with start-up BRR Enterprises and the local