Tag: Poor

HAFIZABAD - The four young sons of a poor villager of village Vinni died due to a mysterious TB-like disease while the fifth one is in critical condition. According to details, Abdul Hakeem's four sons, Sajid, 27, Imran, 24, Wajid, 20 and Sajjad, 7, suffered from a mysterious TB-like disease four years back.
He sold his land, jewellery of his wife and his savings for their treatment, but in vain. He went to various hospitals, but no doctor could diagnose the disease and,

DEHLI - Bhola Nath does not care much for India's growth story. Not when the 65-year-old migrant brick kiln worker has stopped buying onions and garlic, key food staples for Indian families, and manages to save just 1,000 rupees ($22) per month. Five of his fellow workers whose 12 hour shifts heating bricks at the kiln earn them 150 rupees ($3) per day seconded the remark.
This group of migrant labourers represent a microcosm of the country's vast underprivileged, who feel they

KARACHI - The United Bank Limited (UBL) in collaboration with an international advisory firm on Thursday launched a poor-centric branchless banking model in the country that State Bank Governor Shahid Kardar believes is the future of banking industry in a technologically developing Pakistan.
The joint venture called UBL Omni is conceived as an effort to ramp up the electronic services platform in the country's impoverished and localities neglected by banks and has been financed

LAHORE - Establishing four new medical colleges in Punjab is part of mission of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to enable children of poor people acquire education, as their parents cannot afford expenses of million of rupees in private-sector medical colleges, Punjab Health Parliamentary Secretary Saeed Elahi said on Tuesday. He said that the decision to set-up medical colleges in the public-sector has complete support of the Punjab government and finance department and it has

ISLAMABAD - The fire erupted at a shopping centre in Islamabad's Blue Area on Sunday was broke out due to short circuit but it could have been averted, if the building had proper inbuilt fire safety system. "Fire broke out due to short circuit at the control room of a private office and it could easily be controlled if Co2 cylinder and Dry chemical Powder (DCP) were poured over the fire, which did not exist in the building",
Additional Director Fire brigade Zafar Iqbal told

ISLAMABAD - The Punjab government has not been able to recover over Rs 574 million from the officers/officials and contractors of the Punjab Food Directorate, mainly owing to its ineffective and insufficient recovery mechanism, points out an AGPR audit report for the year 2009-10.
The report reveals Rs 574.847 million were recoverable from a number of officers, officials and contractors of the Punjab Food Directorate. The scrutiny of the directorate's monthly recovery statements

KARACHI - Most of the indicators for trading and non-trading affairs at Karachi Stock Exchange marked a negative trend if examined in totality on the eve of fast approaching new calendar year 2011.
Holistically saying, the outgoing year did not see the country's largest bourse proving to be an investor-friendly equity market with most of its belongings continuing to lose their face value over the last couple of years.
According to sources, the KSE's membership card, which

LAHORE: EU-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which is expected to be signed in early 2011, will fuel poverty, inequality and environmental destruction. European and Indian advocacy groups term it "nontransparent" in their recently conducted study titled "Trade Invaders: How big business is driving the EU-India free trade negotiations".
The European Union and India initiated negotiations on multifaceted FTA in 2007, including trade in goods, deregulation of services, investment,

LAHORE: Former Federal Minister for Industries, Production and Special Initiatives Jahangir Khan Tareen while talking to a select group of journalists on Tuesday has said that political policies are not a threat to the present government but bad management of the economy could hit it hard. He believed that the current political system was stable enough but the way present rulers were handling the economy was creating a potential threat. He predicted that inflation could rise by 20

KARACHI: The federal government on Monday said that "targeted subsidies" would continue to help the poorest of the poor to sustain. "I want to assure you that the government would try to do its best, would cut the expenditures... (and) continue targeted subsidies," Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said at the PCP Corporate Philanthropy Awards 2010. The event was organised by Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP) and was attended by participants from corporate sector, whose

LAHORE: The situation of the transport sector of Lahore worsens when Eid is approaching. On the main arteries of the city, there is bumper to bumper traffic.
Rickshaws and cars cause traffic issues opposite bus stations. During the past couple of days, especially the weekend, roads in Lahore, mostly those that lead to the exit points, show Daewoo buses, filled with laughing people excited to return to their villages for Eid.
But things are not going well despite the

GUJRANWALA: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said that disappointment created among the masses by PPP's poor governance could be harmful to democracy, which had been restored after a long struggle.
Addressing a gathering at the residence of MNA Iftikhar Ahmad Cheema after offering condolences over his mother's death, Nawaz said the president and prime minister should adopt politics of principles and should control corruption at the upper level, as well as in the public sector, where

GUJRANWALA: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said that disappointment created among the masses by PPP's poor governance could be harmful to democracy, which had been restored after a long struggle.
Addressing a gathering at the residence of MNA Justice (r) Iftikhar Ahmad Cheema after offering condolences over his mother's death, Nawaz said the president and prime minister should adopt politics of principles and should control corruption at the upper level, as well as in the public

LAHORE
Bureaucratic red-tapism motivated by "vested interests" is creating hindrances in the clinical trial of locally manufactured interferon - a cure for deadly hepatitis - causing losses of millions of rupees to the national exchequer and depriving the poor of cheap treatment, Pakistan Today learnt on Thursday.
A group of researchers working at the Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), Centre of Applied Molecular Biology and the Allama Iqbal Medical College

LAHORE: The Pakistan hockey team and board have attributed crowd behaviour as the major reason for the team's poor performance in the Commonwealth Games hockey event.
The captain of Pakistan hockey team along with the Pakistan Hockey Federation stated that the abuses hurled at them by the Indian fans in their 7-4 loss to India were a decisive factor in the context of the game.
Accusing the Indian audience for the loss, PHF secretary Asif Bajwa asserted that the Pakistani

Lahore
Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) Chairman Khawaja Shahzeb Akram said the pharmaceutical industry would provide the Punjab government medicines for distribution to poor patients.
Shahzeb was leading a fifty member delegation in a meeting with the Punjab health secretary. Shahzeb said, "We will continue to support the health department". He also briefed the Punjab health secretary on the problems faced by the Pharmaceutical Industry with regards