Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Lahore, to preside over the prize distribution of Pakistan Army PACES Competition. PACES (Physical Agility and Combat Efficiency System), is an initiative to improve the physical training regime within the Army, according to a press release. ...

MULTAN (APP) - Despite tall claims regarding provision of facilities to patients by Nishtar Medical Institute administration, Dermatology Ward is being without stretchers and air-conditioners.Sources at NMI who wished not to be named told APP on Thursday that Ward no 28 (Family Ward), catering ...

KARACHI - Increasing marine pollution, residents’ inaccessibility to potable water and the poverty together have made the people of coastal areas vulnerable to face diseases. During interviews with the locals by TheNation in Ibrahim Hydri, the largest fishermen locality, it was learned ...

LAHORE – Half of the Basic Health Units (BHUs) did not have specially trained staff to treat tuberculosis (TB) patients while around one-third lacked manpower to run the Control of Diarrheal Disease (CDD) and Malaria Control Programs (MCP), it has been learned. According to the data collected ...

ISLAMABAD - Keeping its previous tradition intact, the strong market mafia is once again active to exploit the helpless consumers by trading basic food commodities at higher prices just ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.According to the official figures of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) and market sources, ...

I would like to draw the attention of the concerned authorities to the Basic Health Units (BHU) in the country, the government is spending large amount on these units. These are ostensibly equipped with medicines and other medical equipment but there seems to be no benefit to the general public. ...

PESHAWAR - The residents of Civil Colony, Warsak Road, Peshawar, have expressed concern over the lack of basic amenities of life and ramshackle condition of electricity transformers.They appealed to the Chief Justice, Peshawar High Court, to press the government to meet their genuine demands. The ...

Thar Coal is in news again. I have just returned from an international conference organized by the Underground Coal Gasification Association in London. My paper entitled; “Applicability of the UCG Process Dig or Skip” with reference to development of Thar Coal was presented on May 02, ...

For 8 days police with all its might and incompetence unleashed an operation in Lyari, which failed to nab armed gangs, but only succeeded in killing and terrorizing local residents. Lyari the oldest residential locality of Karachi, is home to bulk of Baloch settlers for more than a century. These ...

LAHORE - University of Health Sciences has made Basic Life Support an essential component of the curriculum of MBBS and BDS courses, main objective of the decision is to train medical and dental students in quickly responding to emergencies and saving the life, spokesman of UHS said on ...

LAHORE - A Workshop on ‘Human Opportunity and the Decentralization of Social Services in Pakistan’ was held on Saturdaqy, which was jointly organized by the Institute of Public Policy, Beaconhouse National University and the World Bank.The workshop brought to the surface the findings on ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - DCO Javed Iqbal has said that social security card is the rights of labourers and those who will create hurdles in issuance of cards will have to face action.While addressing a meeting regarding welfare of labourers here Thursday, he directed the officials concerned to give him ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that Kashmir is the basic contentious issue between Pakistan and India. While addressing in the Senate, Gilani told he met Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and discussed bilateral issues during his one day ...

KARACHI Sindh is deprived of social, political, economic and cultural rights and systematic violation is being carried out by the bureaucracy and police with the support of feudal lords, while pervasive menace of bondage has deprived labourers of their fundamental rights. The speakers stated this ...

The nursing hostel in District Headquarter is deprived of basic facilities and the nurses have demanded of the hospital administration to ensure basic facilities at the hostel. Talking to Online news agency here on Friday the nurses living at the hostel complained that washrooms are broken, water ...

ISLAMABAD - On the eve of International Press Freedom Day, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has paid homage to the journalists who lost their lives during course of their duties last year and said that freedom of expression was a fundamental human right. An official statement issued by the UN ...

Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said the government was taking steps for providing basic necessities of life to the people at their doorsteps. Speaking at a meeting attended by District Coordination Officer Sukkur, Executives District Officers (EDOs), DOs and ...

KARACHI - The fishermen still waiting for the fulfilment of the promises made by the government about developing their village into a model village, The Nation learnt on Tuesday. As per details, the fishermen of Mubarak village have complained that the government has not taken any concrete step ...

KARACHI - Rehri area in Bin Qasim Town Karachi is deprived of basic facilities of drinking water, schools and health institutions, causing deterioration to childrens health. Society for Protection and Rights of Children (SPARC) stated this in its follow-up report of an event, held in area in ...

KARACHI - The librarians at UC libraries have been deprived of medical, salary bonus, conveyance allowance, and many other basic facilities, The Nation has learnt. It was told to The Nation that the librarians were given house building finance and the money for their uniform, which have been ...

The leader of Pakistan Muslim League (PML)-N Mian Nawaz Sharif said the doors of Punjab are open for Swat affectees. Addressing a meeting for settlement of Swat affectees, Nawaz Sharif said preventing any Pakistani to enter another province is unjust. Prohibiting affectees to enter another ...

KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan has directed all commercial banks to provide basic banking services including cash withdrawal facility to internally displaced persons (IDPs) as a result of the current situation in Swat and other adjoining districts. In a press statement issued here on Friday ...

SCIENTISTS from the universities of Padova and Trento demonstrated chicks ability to add and subtract objects as they were moved behind two screens. Lucia Regolin, an author of the study said the animals performed basic arithmetic to work out which screen concealed the larger group of objects.The ...

LAHORE - Vice Chancellor Government College University Dr Khalid Aftab has said without any doubt, behind the industrial and economic miracles were the rapid advances in basic sciences and none among them is more important than mathematics. He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of 4th Conference ...

KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has drawn the urgent attention of the government to the basic needs of the SMEs and called upon the Ministry of Production, Industries and Special Initiatives(MoPI&SI) to take up the matter with the government on top priority basis. ...