LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said that government is striving for provision of modern health facilities to the masses, controlling viral diseases and improving health standard. Speaking at inaugural ceremony of free emergency ward for children at Fatima Memorial Hospital on ...

ISLAMABAD  – Lack of parking system in weekly bazaar Aabpara has posed serious traffic problem.Due to non-availability of any parking space in the weekly bazaar the citizens park their cars on the main road, which causes severe traffic jams. This way road accidents have become common on ...

Health problems in Pakistan are looked after mainly in the private sector which accounts for approximately 80 percent of all outpatient visits. The public sector was until recently led by the Ministry of Health, which is the department for provision of medical services, responsible to frame the ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court on Monday issued notices to Ministry of Religious Affairs on a civil miscellaneous application complaining for not giving facilities to pilgrims in the light of Haj Policy 2013 and increasing the Haj fares.  The application was moved in an already pending ...

SARGODHA - University of Sargodha RPO Dr Usman Anwar announced provision of digital library, auditorium, power generator and bus for the students of Police Educators School (PES) besides refurbishing school premises soon.He stated this during his visit to the School here the other day.During his ...

SARGODHA - University of Sargodha RPO Dr Usman Anwar announced provision of digital library, auditorium, power generator and bus for the students of Police Educators School (PES) besides refurbishing school premises soon.He stated this during his visit to the School here the other day.During his ...

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 ...

President Asif Ali Zardari said the government is fully committed to put in place measures to ensure healthy and productive life of the elderly so that they continue to be a valuable resource for their families and communities and contribute to the nation building. In a message on the occasion of ...

KARACHI - Government of Sindh (GoS) has made modernisation of agri-storage and handling infrastructure in the province a key strategic priority. This strategy is central to the government’s stated objective enhancing food security for the people of Sindh.Government of Sindh announced the ...

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that there are vast opportunities of investment in the province and government is providing all facilities to investors under one-roof. He said that foreign investors should benefit from the attractive incentives being offered ...

QUETTA - The Chairman of Senate’s Functional Committee on Human Rights Senator Afrasiab Khattak has said that recommendations regarding installation of jammers in all prisons of Balochistan and provision of proper food and health facilities to prisoners would be presented in the Parliament.He ...

KARACHI - Pakistan hockey team’s Dutch coach Michel van den Heuval, who twice visited Athletics Fitness School (AFS) located here at Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium during his stay in the city, has praised the training facilities available at the school for sportsmen. The Athletics Fitness ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan and Tajikistan need to work closely on infrastructure, energy connectivity and trans-regional economic cooperation projects such as CASA-1000.This he said during his meeting with the Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan to Pakistan ...

LAHORE – Electricity loadshedding and severe low gas pressure hit the Lahorites badly on Sunday. Unavailability of both the essential commodities resulted deficient water supply in major portion of the City while the domestic consumers could not prepare food at homes. Although the rain ...

PESHAWAR - Uthmankhel Qaumi Movement’s (UQM’s) grand jirga has demanded full-fledged educational facilities for girls in Bajaur, Malakand and Momand Agencies. The jirga was held at the remotest village of Khanori, Malakand Agency, which was attended by 200 elders of Uthmankhel tribe ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Government is spending an amount of Rs. 4 billion on the provision of various missing facilities in public sector schools in the province so that students, studying in these low-fee schools, can get quality education and their mental ken also be improved through the provision of ...

LAHORE – Punjab Health Secretary Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan has said that the government was carrying out projects of upgradation of health facilities and establishment of new departments in the public sector hospitals to provide best treatment facilities to the masses. Chairing a meeting held ...

KARACHI PIA MD Nadeem Khan Yousufzai has impressed upon PIA employees to work with full zeal and dedication and provide maximum facilitation to Hajjis here on Tuesday while briefing the employees posted on duties for carrying out Haj operation at PIA Head Office. PIA Haj passengers may be served ...

OUR STAFF RPORTER LAHORE - Dr Ansar Parvez, chairman Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, inaugurated PET-CT diagnostic facilities, the first-ever in the public sector in Pakistan, at INMOL Cancer Hospital here the other day, spokesman of the hospital said. He said that these facilities would help ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai invited Russia on Friday to rebuild Soviet-era facilities in Afghanistan, courting a nation eager to expand its influence decades after the Soviet Unions costly war there. We want to give a new start to vital projects that were begun very long ago, ...

LAHORE Parliamentary Secretary for Health Dr Saeed Elahi has said that Mobile Health Units (MHUs) were providing quality healthcare facilities to the people in remote areas. Addressing a press conference here at Directorate General of Public Relation office on Wednesday, he said that MHU was a ...

KARACHI The students of the metropolis under the umbrella of National Student Federation (NSF) again drew up the Charter of Demands to recall the 8th January 1953 students movement, and vowed to continue the struggle for better education facilities as well as political stability in the country. A ...

LAHORE (APP) Brick kiln owners must provide education and health facilities to workers and their children. Senior programme officer ILO Pakistan Saifullah Chaudhry said this addressing a 'sensitisation conference organised by the Association of Network for Community Empowerment (ANCE) here. ...

LAHORE (APP) - Senior Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab Zulfiqar Ali Khosa has said that the provincial government will provide every possible facility to farmers and safeguard their interests. He expressed these views while presiding over a meeting of committee on wheat release policy held at ...

LAHORE The Royal Palm Golf and Country Club has added one-kilometer long jogging track to its existing sports facilities which includes outdoor games like golf, soccer, tennis and cricket and indoor sports facilities like snooker, swimming, squash and gymnasium. Royal Palm recognises the fact ...

MUMBAI Fort Lauderdale is set to be the International Cricket Council (ICCs) new venue for Twenty20 Internationals, it is learnt here. It may also be the base venue for IPL matches. IS Bindra (the ICC principal advisor) visited the stadium in Ft Lauderdale the other day and was very happy to see ...

KARACHI (PPI) - No government-run teaching hospital in rural Sindh has got the facility of mammography, to help detect breast cancer, which is rising with an alarming rate in women of both rural and urban areas. A few government teaching hospitals in Karachi have got the mammography facility and ...

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 ...

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 ...