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KARACHI - This week again the country's foreign exchange reserves sustained a declining trajectory and shrank by $135 million to $17.370 billion during the week ending on March 5. The previous week that ended on February 19 also saw the country's dollar reserves decreasing by 0.48 percent to $17.505 billion after hitting the historic high of $17.589 billion in the preceding week.
According to State Bank of Pakistan, during the week under review, total liquid foreign reserves of

LAHORE - Outdoor Patient Department (OPD) services continued on Wednesday on the roads outside all government hospitals as half of the deadline given by the young doctors to the Punjab Health government surpassed. OPD services continued for the third day as the young doctors provided free medical advice to the public while sitting outside their respective government hospitals.
The tug of war between doctors and health department officials is at its climax as the young doctors

KARACHI - Local refineries are still taking advantage of higher oil prices primarily due to a 7.5 percent deemed duty on High Speed Diesel (HSD). The deemed duty is fixed in percentage terms, however, it varies in absolute terms on fluctuating international oil prices. The deemed duty on diesel (HSD) has hit a 30-month high, reaching $9.0 per barrel. This could inflate further incase oil prices remain firm. If this happens, National Refinery Limited (NRL) and Attock Refinery Limited

QUETTA - Lawyers in Balochistan continued to protest for the fifth consecutive day on Thursday against the police's failure to find two abducted judges and four lawyers. They boycotted court proceedings throughout the province after 11am and protested outside Quetta Press Club, shouting slogans against the governments.
Balochistan Bar General Secretary Aminullah Kakar told the protesters that the government had failed to find the abducted judges and lawyers and there was no writ

LAHORE - Patients continued to suffer as the outdoor patient departments (OPDs) of major hospitals across the city remained closed for the third consecutive day on Thursday owing to the strike announced by the Young Doctors Association (YDA) for a salary raise.
The situation was the worst in Jinnah Hospital where a complete strike was observed with even the operation theatres not working. All hospitals except Lady Willington Hospital, Lady Aitchison Hospital and the Punjab

Lahore - The outdoor patient departments (OPDs) of key hospitals of the city remained closed on Wednesday because junior doctors abiding by the strike, announced by the Young Doctors Association (YDA), refused to accommodate incoming patients.
Hospitals affected by the strike include Mayo Hospital, Ganga Ram Hospital, Services Hospital, Children Hospital and Jinnah Hospital. After taking to the streets on early Tuesday the YDA had announced a strike in all hospitals throughout

ISLAMABAD - Hundreds of poor patients visiting the government run hospitals in the capital city suffer immensely because of faulty x-rays and test machines and the doctors remain oblivious to their condition. A large number of patients are forced to visit government hospitals daily because of abject poverty as they cannot afford private hospitals or clinics.
During a survey of two major government run hospitals in Islamabad, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and

LAHORE - Power outages have increased to four to seven hours, as electricity shortfall widened and crossed the 1,400MW mark on Saturday. Hydel, thermal and other power generation sources decreased rapidly in the last three days, as the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) failed to control the situation.
All power production sources touched their lowest ebb in recent days. Looking at the shortfall, PEPCO has also decreased supplies to the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC)

ISLAMABAD - No serious effort was made on the part of federal government to restore suspended educational activities in over 370 institutes of Islamabad, as teachers continued boycott of classes for a second consecutive day on Friday. The protesting teachers, affiliated with the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), have been boycotted classes since Thursday against the non-implementation of the teachers' package announced by the prime minister on November 8 last year.
They

KARACHI - Hundreds of Lyari residents marched towards the Chief Minister's House on Monday afternoon after a People's Amn Committee activist - under treatment at the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) after being critically wounded in crossfire between two groups in Moosa Lane, Lyari on February 12 - succumbed to his injuries earlier in the morning.
Apart from the Amn Committee activist Jamshaid, an activist of the Kutchi Rabita Committee had also been killed in the skirmish and the

FAST chapter of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) brought another enthralling and joyous event EE_HUNT by NUCES Circuit Society (NCS) in which teams from various schools and universities including Beacon house, Lahore Grammar, UET and FAST-LHR participated. All teams had to find a hidden treasure from a set of 6 hidden clues. An exciting commotion by the participants' lust for the treasure hurled all the boredom out of the campus. UET's team won.