Pakistan certifies first organic cotton bale
Balochistan on Wednesday marked the certification of Pakistan's first organic cotton bale at a ceremony held at Kot Sabzal. Balochistan's Minister for Agriculture Engineer Zamrak Khan said the provincial
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‘Lung, breast cancers on the rise in Pakistan’
KARACHI: National and international health experts at a two-day research symposium on cancer that opened at the Aga Khan University on Wednesday expressed their concern over increase in lung and breast
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HIV commission formed, search on for members from high-risk communities
KARACHI: The Sindh health department has finally constituted a 16-member commission for the control and treatment of HIV and Aids in Sindh a year after the Sindh HIV and Aids Control, Treatment and Protection
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New polio case raises 2015’s count to 10
ISLAMABAD: As another polio case has been confirmed by the Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH), the total count for the year 2015 has risen to 10. An official of Ministry
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Climate change poses major security threat to Pakistan, says military
With far-reaching consequences like food scarcity, climate change is a major security challenge and countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh can take lessons from the Arab Spring that was triggered by high
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Cement factory causing pollution
KOHAT: The people living in the vicinity of Kohat Cement Factory have complained that dust and fumes emitting from the factory kilns are causing serious diseases among them. A jirga of local elders,
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Over 150,000 diarrhoea cases reported in Sindh last year
KARACHI: Clean drinking water and better sanitation — the two key reasons whose absence exacerbate health indicators and spread diarrhoea — are still hard to come by in Sindh, it emerged on Sunday.
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Plan finalised to set up 5,600MW projects
ISLAMABAD: The government finalised on Friday a plan to set up gas-based power projects in Sindh and Punjab of 5,600MW, with those in Hyderabad and Sukkur scheduled to start producing about 2,000MW by
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Strategy planned to end water shortage in drought-hit Thar
KARACHI: In the wake of below average rainfall in Thar in recent years, the Sindh government has planned a series of water, food and livestock projects under a strategy to end water shortfall in the drought-hit
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28th polio case confirmed in Sindh
KARACHI: Provincial health authorities on Wednesday confirmed another polio case in Sindh — a 10-month-old girl from Sanghar — bringing the tally to 28 cases this year. Officials in the expanded programme
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Karachi: Congo fever records 15-year high with 16 cases in city
KARACHI: The confirmation of two more cases of Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Saturday brought the annual tally to 16 in the city, 15-year high,