ISLAMABAD, May 24 : Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif was on Tuesday presented a detailed report about the ongoing firefighting operation to control the wildfire in Baluchistan. According to the report presented by the provincial government, rescue measures to check the wildfire in Baluchistan’s Sherani and Musakhel districts have been …
Read More »Rana Sana vows to keep Capital free of ‘miscreants’
ISLAMABAD-Minister for Interior Rana Sana Ullah on Tuesday vowed that the Federal Capital would be kept free of ‘any miscreants’ who would try to disrupt the public life and activity as the protection of life and property was the prime responsibility of the government. The life and property in Islamabad …
Read More »Cabinet approves special committee for consultations on issue of enforced disappearances
ISLAMABAD, May 24 The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the formation of a special committee, under the federal law minister, with a mandate to hold consultations with all the relevant institutions and experts on the issue of enforced disappearances. During the meeting of the federal cabinet held here under his …
Read More »Rich countries putting children around the world at risk says UN
Rich countries are creating unsafe living conditions for children both at home and around the world, a UNICEF report released Tuesday said, calling on states to reduce waste and cut pollution. UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Center studied 39 countries from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European …
Read More »Worldwide pollution killing millions each year
A new study blames pollution of all types for 9 million deaths a year globally, with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks, and industry rising 55% since 2000. That increase is offset by fewer pollution deaths from primitive indoor stoves and water contaminated with human and …
Read More »Rest in Peace, Shireen Abu Akleh
Israel’s obscene crime is all the worse for having targeted one who, by all accounts, shone a light in the lives of all who knew her. She was on Al Jazeera’s Arabic service. What a giant this woman was. Hearing the testimonies, reading the tributes, and seeing the reactions coming …
Read More »Afghan female TV presenters do not cover faces
Women presenters on Afghanistan’s leading TV channels yesterday went on air without covering their faces, defying a Taliban order that they conceal their appearance to comply with the group’s austere brand of Islam. Since surging back to power last year the Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on …
Read More »Biden administration scrambling to salvage Latin America summit
While President Joe Biden travels in Asia, his administration is scrambling to salvage next month’s summit focused on Latin America. The Summit of the Americas, which the United States is hosting for the first time since the inaugural event in 1994, has risked collapsing over concerns about the guest list. …
Read More »Health authorities asked to remain vigilant on Monkeypox suspected case
ISLAMABAD, May 23 :National Institute of Health (NIH) on Monday said that all the national and provincial health authorities have been advised to remain on high alert for any suspected case of Monkeypox. According to NIH’s alert issued on multi-country Monkeypox outbreak in non-endemic countries to concerned health authorities and …
Read More »Hospital in Rome (Italy) identifies monkeypox in man who returned from Canary Islands.
Rome’s Spallanzani hospital on Sunday 22 may said it had confirmed a single case of monkeypox in a young man who had recently returned from the Canary Islands. The patient, who presented himself to the Umberto I hospital in the capital, is being kept in isolation and is described as …
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