HYDERABAD: The vital MRI, CT Scan and dialysis machines, as well as many air conditioners, at the Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) need urgent repairs but the administration appears helpless for want of required funds. The ultimate suffers are the several thousand patients
ISLAMABAD: Karachi and Dhaka will be the only two cities in Asia-Pacific region among the 10 cities of the Global South that will receive eight million climate migrants by 2050 if the world warms by more than 1.5 centigrade above pre-industrial levels,
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has dismissed the bail application of a man in a child molestation case. The applicant, Nazar Hussain, was arrested by the Zaman Town police for molesting a seven-year-old boy in the Korangi area on August 9, 2023.
KARACHI: A teenage girl died during treatment by an alleged quack in the Malir area, police said on 22nd March. Malir City SHO Farasat Shah said that the 15-year-old girl, identified as Nusrat Wahid, complained of pain due to fasting, and her
KARACHI: Some 400,000 flood-affected families have moved into fully completed homes built by the Sindh government while 660,000 houses have been completed at the foundation level, a meeting chaired by Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari was told on 21st March. The
Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar said in his address to the Sindh Assembly on 21-March-2025 that significant efforts were being made to reduce street crime, and claimed that street crime had decreased by up to 50%. Stolen or snatched goods were
The secretary of the Sindh School Education and Literacy Department (SE&LD), Zahid Ali Abbasi, has said during an interim review and way forward session that while every stakeholder is engaged in the betterment of education, the children themselves were previously often left
The Sindh Assembly was informed on 20-March-2025 that it was beyond the capacity of the provincial government to establish a cardiac treatment facility in every district of the province. Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho stated this while taking part in
A sessions court on 20-March-2025 awarded a collective sentence of 32 years imprisonment to a man on charges of raping his daughter and criminal intimidation. Muhammad Shahid was found guilty of assaulting his daughter at their house within the jurisdiction of the
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has taken exception to the increasing number of criminal cases in the court that have arisen out of alleged honour killing incidents, and directed the government to deal such cases with effective policing, investigation and prosecution. Issuing