The Sindh Assembly on 25-June-2025 passed the provincial budget for the fiscal year 2025-26. The budget had earlier been presented by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah with a total outlay of Rs3,450 billion, marking a 12.9 percent increase compared to the
Addiction is no longer limited to narcotics but now includes increasingly prevalent behavioural dependencies such as compulsive smartphone use, social media obsession, and gaming addiction, experts warned on 24-June-2025 during a seminar marking World Drug Day 2025. Alarmed by the surge in
LARKANA: Stating that every second child in Sindh is stunted, health experts have called for coordinated efforts to address the issue of malnutrition’s impact on the generations to come. Drawn from different institutions, they were sharing their views at the ‘National Conference
A severe shortage of trained and qualified female gastroenterologists in Pakistan is contributing to delayed diagnoses and poor health outcomes for women suffering from gastrointestinal and liver diseases, as many are reluctant to consult male doctors due to cultural and social barriers.
KARACHI: Youth took centre stage at the Youth Convention: Climate Change and Role of Youth, where Obun2, in partnership with Terre des Hommes and civil society allies, unveiled its landmark report “The Impact of Climate Change on Children in Pakistan.” The two-day
Pakistan’s largest-ever “Mental Health Hackathon 2025” concluded successfully at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, marking a significant step toward addressing the growing mental health challenges among the youth. The two-day event, held on June 19 and 20 at the IBA
With over 5,358 hospital admissions due to heat-related illnesses in 2024 and 675 confirmed cases of heatstroke between April and May this year, Sindh’s escalating climate emergency has prompted urgent local action. Five of the province’s most heat-prone cities —Hyderabad, Dadu, Larkana,
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
Two men have died of the deadly Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Karachi in the past 48 hours, raising alarm among health authorities and infectious disease specialists amid fears of post-Eid outbreak patterns linked to the cattle trade. The latest victim,
Karachi has once again ranked among the world’s least liveable cities, according to the latest global liveability index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). In the 2025 edition of the annual survey, Pakistan’s financial hub was ranked 170 out of 173