Dozens of children have died this year in Karachi, and rural areas of Sindh and Balochistan due to diphtheria, a vaccine-preventable bacterial disease, as routine immunisation continues to decline in the region, health experts and officials reported on 12-October-2024. In Karachi alone,
On gaining independence, Karachi – a modest trading post with 450,000 inhabitants – became the capital city of Pakistan. Over the years, it welcomed all into its magnanimous fold. Today, a megalopolis of nearly 300 million people, it is the industrial and
KARACHI: Speakers at a programme held on 11th October underscored the urgent need for prioritising mental health, especially at workplaces, where people spend a significant part of their day. Held at Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) in connection with the World Mental
Under the direction of the Sindh Ministry of Prisons and the guidance of Haji Ali Hassan Zardari, Shikarpur Jail has been transformed into a reform centre. A new educational facility has been established within the jail, featuring a computer lab aimed at
The body of a tortured woman was discovered within the premises of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medicare (JPMC) on 02-October 2024. According to police, the body was found early in the morning in a park near the hospital’s mosque. The deceased, estimated to
KARACHI: The city administration on 30th September decided to launch an effective crackdown on professional beggars at traffic signals, intersections and markets across the city. The decision was taken by Commissioner Syed Hassan Naqvi while chairing a meeting at his office, said
A sessions court has sentenced a man to nine years in prison in a drug trafficking case. Zahoor Ahmed was found guilty of possessing over four kilogrammes of charas within the remits of the Surjani Town police station in May 2023. Additional
HYDERABAD: More than 35 people, mostly children, suffered respiratory distress, coughing and throat and eye irritation after chlorine gas that leaked from a cylinder in the Hala Naka filtration plant spread in the Khursheed Town locality here on 24th September 2024. The
LARKANA: A 40-year-old man and his 32-year-old sister were gunned down in the Bakrani area of Larkana district late Sunday night, 22nd September 2024, over their mother’s freewill marriage, according to local residents. They said that the mother, Qaim Khatoon Brohi, was
KARACHI: Members of civil society on 21 September continued their protest against the alleged extrajudicial killing of a doctor accused of blasphemy in Mirpurkhas, expressing lack of confidence in police inquiry and demanding a judicial inquiry into the matter. Meanwhile, the Sindh Human