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Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday regretted that judicial education had never been accorded priority or considered a specialised field...

Karachi Port Trust (KPT), which has run up substantial losses, appears to be least concerned of ensuring the availability of basic human necessities for...

The government of Sindh has been requested to allocate Rs500,000 to the Underground Coal Gasification and Purification Project because the project is facing difficulty...

Agricultural sector is continuously witnessing a downward trend as it has registered an overall decline of over 10 per cent in several major and...

A seminar on ‘Organisational Intelligence’ was held at the Al-Raazi Hall of the Punjab University (PU) Centre for Undergraduate Studies at the New Campus...

Almost half of the 80 Basic Health Units (BHUs) monitored in April 2011 by FAFEN did not have specially-trained staff to treat TB patients....

The National Drug Policy (NDP) is not being implemented in any of the major city hospitals, Pakistan Today has learnt. The NDP guidelines are...

The number of the mothers are dying during deliveries is increasing owing to the shortage of skilled doctors and paramedics in remote areas, observed...

Cotton leaf curl virus is likely to play havoc with the crop as it has damaged cotton worth USD 5 billion from 1992 to...

ISLAMABAD - It is seems that Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar is completely out of touch with the affairs of his ministry, as he thinks that mere enhancement of fuel supplies alone would not resolve the generation woes of the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO). Talking to the media at the conclusion of Pakistan Energy Conference 2011 in Islamabad on Tuesday, he warned that the electricity demand would shoot up in summer, resulting in increased load shedding. When

ISLAMABAD - More than 90 percent of hospitals at the tehsil and taluka level across the country do not have specialised healthcare services to cater to the needs of patients with skin and ENT diseases. The figures were disclosed in a report released by Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) on Friday after visits to 46 THQs in 39 districts nationwide during February.
Twenty two THQs were visited in 17 districts of Punjab, 13 in 12 districts of KP, nine in eight districts of Sindh

WASHINGTON - Citizens of Lahore are among more than one billion urban residents who will face serious water shortages by 2050 as climate change worsens effects of urbanisation, with Indian cities among the worst hit, a study said Monday. The shortage threatens sanitation in some of the world's fastest-growing cities but also poses risks for wildlife if cities pump in water from outside, said the article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study found that under

KARACHI - The local bourse had a week of slim volumes of 62.56 million, indicating that lack of investor participation has largely impacted performance. The index moved within a band of merely 289 points whilst the benchmark shrunk 54.48 points within the week.
Foreign participation, in the week, was up by a meager $4.82 million. The SBP allowed forward cover for exports, to allow the banking industry fetch better returns from dealing in foreign exchanges, while forward cover

KARACHI - The Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) has expressed concern over an explosion due to accumulation of methane gas at the Sorange coal mine in Balochistan, resulting in the death of 45 of the 52 miners working at the mine at the time of the explosion. In a statement issued on Monday, PILER Executive Director Karamat Ali expressed serious concern over the absence of an effective occupational health and safety policy in the country, resulting in deaths

ISLAMABAD - Speakers on Monday stressed that government must focus on eradication of root causes of extremism and terrorism including poverty, lack of education, unemployment and injustice, in order to bring normalcy in the country. They said after the military operations in different tribal areas there was dire need to make immediate plan for the abolishment of poverty, illiteracy, injustice, unemployment and unresolved political disputes because all the elements collectively give

LAHORE - There is more to slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer's assassination than his assassin Malik Mumtaz Qadri: key pieces of evidence have either been overlooked or have gone missing, Pakistan Today has learnt. Moreover, while the investigation team insists otherwise, the prosecution and the defence have verified that a chemical examination has not been conducted.
"A chemical examination was essential, especially in a case as high profile as this," a senior Punjab Police

ISLAMABAD - The government, on Monday, notified reconstruction of the Board of Directors (BoDs) of all power sector distribution companies (DISCOs) and the National Transmission Dispatch Company (NTDC) after two months. New inductees include a few professionals but more people without experience.
An official announcement said that the Prime Minister had approved reconstruction of BoDs of all DISCOs, along with the NTDC. The government has advised CEOs of DISCOs and NTDC to