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.
Sindh has reported its first case of monkeypox (Mpox) and Pakistan’s second locally transmitted infection after Peshawar, as a 29-year-old patient from Malir tested positive despite having no recent travel history, raising concerns about the virus’s spread within the country. The patient
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
KARACHI: Five-year-old Zainab sits with her mother, having her hand painted on paper. Next to her, a toddler dabbles happily in green paint with his mom. All around, pre-schoolers wearing mismatched socks dance around to the tunes of Cocomelon’s nursery rhymes. Two
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
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was informed on 21-March-2025 that up to 400,000 homeless victim families of the 2022 severe floods in Sindh had been rehabilitated through the provision of fully built houses constructed under the initiative of the