HAFIZABADA local NGO SINCERE has called on the PML-N chief and upcoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and PTI Chief Imran Khan to ensure presentation of a bill in the National Assembly to adopt austerity to reduce pay, privilege and perks of parliamentarian to decrease burden on national exchequer. ...

BAHAWALPUR Cantonment Executive Officer Raja Ailia Asad has stressed the importance of playgrounds and parks for the healthy nation. He said, “Hospitals could be empty if we spent time in playgrounds,” he said visiting and examining the development work of Gulzar Sadiq Park. He directed ...

BAHAWALPURThe 2nd National Eastern Medicines Conference concluded here at Islamia University, Bahawalpur with the recommendations that a bill will be tabled in the National Assembly to formulate Eastern Medicines Authority in the country. The experts of the Eastern medicines will be allowed to ...

NOORPUR THALNational Rural Support Programme (NRSP) Tehsil Field Officer Tanveer Haider has stressed the need for consulting qualified doctors to avoid maternity complications. Speaking at a workshop organised by LSO Noorpur Thal chapter on 'Maternal and Newborn Health', she said that one woman ...

Stress has become part of our daily lives, whether it is a child or an adult, we all feel the pressures of the society. Psychologists believe that the more a situation is unpredictable and uncontrollable or when a traumatic event occurs and results in life changing circumstances, the more the ...

ISLAMABAD : The Harvest Tradings CEO Ahmed Jawad has said that to boost trade with the neighbouring country, caretaker government needed to review Pak-India trade agreement. He said that there was not other option than enhancing trade to normalise the bilateral political and diplomatic relations ...

  ISLAMABAD   National Logistics Cell (NLC) handed over the newly constructed building of Liaqat Ali Khan Engineering Faculty Block atBulkhUniversityat an impressive ceremony held atMazar-i-Sharif,Afghanistan. According to ISPR, the mega project of the university has been completed by NLC ...

ISLAMABAD : Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Sohail Wajahat Sidduqui visited Geosciences Advance Research Laboratories, Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) and chaired a meeting of geoscientists. The meeting was attended by former director generals and former The presentation by ...

ISLAMABAD – A UK-based “Cambridge Regional College” organised a seminar on “promoting higher education at international level” to provide access to UK education for Pakistani students here Saturday.Representatives of CRC Steve Bispham and Junaid Elahi facilitated the ...

SADIQABAD - PPP’s NA-197 candidate Murtaza Mehmood has pledged to serve the people if he is elected from the constituency in the forthcoming general elections. Addressing a press conference at the Sadiqabad Press Club, he expressed the hope that his party would get a landslide victory across ...

SADIQABAD - PPP’s NA-197 candidate Murtaza Mehmood has pledged to serve the people if he is elected from the constituency in the forthcoming general elections. Addressing a press conference at the Sadiqabad Press Club, he expressed the hope that his party would get a landslide victory across ...

ISLAMABAD - Most parents and teachers are reluctant to discuss sensitive issues with children and inform them about the physical and emotional aspects of puberty, which pushes them to seek information from unreliable sources and exposes them to exploitation.This finding was derived from a baseline ...

FAISALABAD - The Australian Sector Linkages Programme of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council and other agricultural institutions on Thursday agreed to step up their efforts to produce disease-free and seedless citrus. Although Pakistan is the 13th ...

KARACHI – Lions Clubs International will continue its efforts for the cure of reversible blindness by organizing eye camps, cataract surgeries, cornea grafting, and diabetes screening camps. These thoughts were shared by MCC Lion Raza Ali at the MJF honoring Ceremony to commemorate the birth ...

RAWALPIDNI - In connection with birth anniversary of founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) Friday organised a special programme titled “Quaid and Today’s Pakistan” at Campus Radio.FJWU Vice Chancellor  Prof Dr Samina Amin ...

KARACHI  - Speakers at the awards distribution ceremony on International Volunteers Day, here on Wednesday at FPCCI, emphasized on creating strong platforms for volunteers by society and government to promote volunteerism in the country and on proper legislation about social services.Sindh ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN/NANKA-NA SAHIB/SHAHKOT  - The International Day for Persons with Disabilities was observed with aimed to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities here the other day. In this connection, ...

ISLAMABAD - Technical and vocational education experts stressed the need for imparting technical and vocational training to marginalised communities at a seminar, as it is the only basic engine for bringing revolution of fast economic development in the country.The Punjab Board of Technical ...

ISLAMABAD - The textbooks used in Pakistan’s schools today are rife with factual errors, bias and hate towards a number of religious groups and nations.This is helping fuel increasing levels of intolerance and extremism being witnessed by Pakistani society today. Given that increasing ...

KARACHI - There is a need to impart training to those youngsters who are venturing into the field of journalism.This was stressed by the Sindh Minister for Youth Affairs, Syed Faisal Ali Subzwari. He was speaking as chief guest at the inaugural session of Pakistan Media Conference-2012.The moot was ...

FAISALABAD - The relations between Pakistan and Turkey need to be strengthened especially in the field of agriculture, education and research for poverty alleviation from the region, a Turkish delegation stressed.A Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency team headed by Mahmud ...

KARACHI  - A blood transfusion seminar was organised at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Karachi here on Tuesday on ‘Patient Blood Management.’ It was organised by the JPMC Blood Bank in collaboration with the National Blood Transfusion Programme, Sindh Blood ...

FAISALABAD - Forensic Education, necessary facilities and proper training should be given to the police officers in order to mend the slow procedures practiced in Anti-Terrorism Courts, suggested a seminar held here at Police Complex the other day. According to detail, speakers at a seminar titled ...

HAFIZABAD - Director Soil Research Institute Pindi Bhattian Shahzada Munawar Mehdi and DCO Muhammad Asif have advised the cultivators to adopt scientific methods to make the waterlogged and barren land under plough.Addressing a seminar jointly sponsored by the agriculture department and the ...

CHINIOT – A higher literacy rate warrants prosperity in the Punjab, said speakers of a seminar, calling for efforts to increase quality of and access to non-formal education in Chiniot district. Organised jointly by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Punjab Literacy and ...

LAHORE – Speakers at a conference have stressed upon adopting healthy life style and controlling obesity to save from Diabetes. They also urged the diabetics to avoid using tablets and insulin simultaneously. Pakistan Academy of Family Physicians organized International Medical Conference at ...

OKARA - The PTI Okara president has said only an honest and sincere leadership can steer the country out of crises. “Pakistan is, despite a lot of natural resources, under loans. Such politicians and rulers want just power,” Dr Shamimul Haque said. He added his party was highlighting ...

FAISALABAD - Experts have called for conducting scientific studies to assess potential of different plants extracts against the dengue epidemic.They were addressing a concluding session of an international symposium titled ‘Diet as an Adjunctive Measure for Prevention and Management of Dengue ...

FAISALABAD - The Pakistan National Association of Fulbright Alumni (Pak NAFA) is opening it sub-office (Faisalabad chapter) at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad. This was stated by United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan Executive Director Rita Akhtar at a meeting at the UAF on ...

HAFIZABAD - Commissioner Saeed Wahla and RPO Gujranwala Ahmad Mubarik have stressed the need for better coordination and sincere efforts to weed out sectarianism, terrorism, extremism and timely completion of uplift projects. They expressed these views at a meeting HELD TO review law and order ...