KARACHI: A local study recently published in an international journal highlights how community-driven incentives in rural areas can significantly increase breastfeeding, immunisation, and oral rehydration rates — three critical factors directly linked to child mortality in Pakistan. Published in The Lancet Global
HYDERABAD: Speakers at a program held in connection with Aurat Azadi March on 8th March said that women’s struggle was not only against domestic violence it was also for marginalised communities, including labourers, farmers, transgender and differently-abled persons. They were sharing their
A SIGNIFICANT number of children in Pakistan participate in waste-picking for economic survival. Our legal framework, unfortunately, is inadequate in this respect and unable to protect and rehabilitate the children. With rapid urbanisation and population growth, waste generation is growing, overwhelming municipal
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has approved a comprehensive four-year health improvement plan (2025-2029) with a major focus on increasing routine immunisation coverage from 69 percent to 95 percent, expanding community outreach, and enhancing governance in the province’s healthcare sector.
Fifty new parks are being constructed across the city and several development projects are in their final stage. Karachi Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab said this on 05-March-2025 while inaugurating the newly constructed Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Family Park in Union Committee 5
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has dismissed the bail application of a man in a sexual assault case. Applicant Mohammad Maroof had been arrested by the Tipu Sultan police for allegedly molesting an underage girl with a mental disability. According to the
Cities are living things. If their needs cannot be met through formal planning, they acquire these needs through other means. The process of acquiring what is required through other means reflects the culture and limitations of the agents through which these needs
The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa), under the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development, organised a seminar titled “Environmental Governance and Sustainability Challenges in Sindh” at Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi. The event was attended by guests, prominent environmental experts, industrialists,
KARACHI: More than 41,800 children were denied polio vaccine by their parents in the metropolis when health workers visited their homes during the current year, it emerged on 25th February. The provincial data showed that Sindh has reported 42,999 refusal cases this year
With 150 children reportedly testing positive for HIV in just the first few months of 2024. The alarming rise in HIV cases among children in Sindh’s Mirpurkhas district is a public health crisis that demands immediate attention. With 150 children reportedly testing