Tag: Poor

Time for a deeper debate on the topic Some time back a doctor friend, who works at a large public hospital, called us to ask...

The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has ordered an investigation into the national team's poor performance in the recently concluded Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Cup...

There aren’t any exceptions. Come budget time, any budget, there are bound to be many laments about how the ordinary man, the poor man...

Poor planning to execute the so-called Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project has turned the international standard dual carriageway, Ferozepur Road, into a dirt...

Back to the dark ages – the days of affordable electricity are seemingly over for the common man, as the government on Tuesday tightened...

Twenty-eight toll plazas, one on each exit, have been constructed on the Ring Road and apart from collecting tax ranging from Rs 10 to...

The Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Farzana Raja has said that launch of Waseela-e-Taleem would pave the way for poor children to...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Tuesday said it had become a culture that law was enforced on the poor only and...

Three women, identified as Inna Shevchenko, Aleksandra Shevchenko and Oksana Shachko, travelled all the way from Kiev, Ukraine to Davos, Switzerland to protest on...

Pakistan is a developing country. Half of our population is living below the poverty line. The irony is that the masses are poor but...

Welfare in Pakistan - it’s a snooze-fest   Literally. The ‘Islamic’ Republic of Pakistan has evolved into a quackery of its own making where its multiple...

One should take on our government for its policies that are not people-friendly at all. For a comparison, India with a population six times...

According to the Human Development Report 2011 of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Pakistan ranks at the 145th spot among low human development...

Saleema Akhtar, a middle-aged women with her one year old son, Zubair, in her arms, was waiting for her turn to be seen by...

A seminar was hosted lately in a local hotel in Lahore to discuss the issues afflicting Pakistan, as the sixth most populated country, sitting...

Around 100 BC, a Roman nobleman calculated that it took about 100,000 sesterces a year to live comfortably. That was roughly 200 times the...

More than 137.5 million of the world’s poorest families received a micro loan in 2010, an all-time high, according to a report released by...