Political leaders, social activists and business representatives staged a protest at the Jungshahi Railway Station on 27-April-2025 against the removal of the stop for the Ghaus Bahao-ud-Din Zakariya Express. The demonstrators said the closure of the stop had completely severed rail links
KARACHI: Amid government failure to address vaccine shortage and control canine population, the number of rabies cases recorded this year in the province rose to nine on April 23 when a man affected by the deadly virus was brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate
SUKKUR: Unknown armed men, riding three sports utility vehicles, fired at sleeping protesters early on Sunday morning in a camp at Babarloi bypass where lawyers and their supporters had begun a sit-in for an indefinite period two days ago against the construction of six canals on
Alarmingly high levels of obesity, low-density lipoprotein (LDL or “bad” cholesterol), and low levels of protective high-density lipoprotein (HDL or “good” cholesterol) are the leading causes of premature coronary atherosclerosis — early plaque formation in the arteries of young Pakistani men and
NAWABSHAH: As Sindh has been in the grip of a heatwave for around a week, the harsh weather is taking a toll on people’s health with heatstroke and gastroenteritis on the rise in many districts and towns amid prolonged power outages. While the Sindh
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on April 17 met with an IFC delegation led by Ms Linda Rudo Munyengeterwa, director for public-private partnerships (PPPs), Privatizations & Corporate Finance Advisory, IFC’s Global, to discuss urban mobility, water, and sanitation projects, and
KARACHI: On the occasion of the ‘International Day of Peasant Struggles’, the Hari Welfare Association (HWA) has demanded immediate land reforms to distribute lands among landless farmers in Sindh. It said in a statement issued on 17th April that millions of acres
In a step towards building a resilient, inclusive and climate-adaptive social protection system in Pakistan, the Sindh government and GIZ Pakistan, with support from the European Union (EU) and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), have signed an implementation
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on 16 April inaugurated a cancer centre and a girls’ hostel at Dow University’s Ojha campus. Equipped with state-of-the-art departments of radiation oncology, medical oncology and nuclear medicine using theranostics (a technique that combines uses
LAST week in Islamabad, something rare happened. Judges, police officers, prosecutors, lawyers, policymakers, and rights experts gathered: not in the usual posture of mutual suspicion or institutional self-preservation, but in a shared moment of reckoning. Hosted by the National Commission for Human