Tag: Risk
US-Pakistan conflict risk higher than India-Pakistan
An influential US think-tank has rated a conflict with Pakistan as among the top potential threats facing the United States in 2012, but downgraded...
China’s debt pileup raises risk of hard landing
When China announced a nearly $600 billion package to ward off the 2008 global financial crisis, city planners across the country happily embarked on...
Zinc deficiency ups miscarriage risk
A new study from the University of Granada has for the first time confirmed that low blood levels of copper and zinc in pregnant...
Intervention and return of risk
The SNB definitely did the right thing by going all-in – pegging the franc at 1.20 to the euro – if engineering long-term swissie...
Foreign missions posing a security risk
As a result of complete negligence of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), over 90 embassies and foreign companies are operating in the different residential...
Higher Vitamin D intake linked to lower colon cancer risk
A new analysis of earlier research finds that both higher vitamin D intake and higher blood levels of the vitamin’s active form are linked...
Eating walnuts may help lower breast cancer risk
They are hard to crack, but walnuts have a handful of medicinal values from curing headache and preventing baldness to having some influence on...
Children at risk in city sprawling with beggars
Police have raided a den of professional beggars and safely recovered a child, who was kidnapped so that he can be physically disabled and...
Risks of risk-aversion
With the US debt ceiling debate exposing a disturbing cleavage in American politics –both parties putting political point scoring above averting financial catastrophe –...
Taller people have higher cancer risk
Tall people are more likely than shorter people to develop cancer and the risk of breast, ovarian, uterine, bowel, blood or skin cancer among...
Downplaying risk of rift, China praises Pakistan
China’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday praised Pakistan as a firm partner against terror and religious extremism, playing down the risk that ties could be...
Flood hazards and managing risk
Disasters like last year’s monsoon floods in Pakistan may only make news for a few days, but the real story lasts substantially much longer...
2m people at risk from floods: UN
The United Nations (UN) said on Monday that around two million people in Pakistan are again at a risk of floods, partly because of...
Obesity – bigger cancer risk than smoking
A woman’s chance of developing breast cancer depends on a range of factors, including family history, age, time of menopause and whether she has...
Saidpur village at risk
Situated on the foothills of the Margalla Hills, Saidpur Village, a centre of attraction not only for local tourists and but also foreigners, lacks...
5m Pakistanis at risk from floods again: UN
Up to five million people in Pakistan are at risk from floods this year, partly due to poor reconstruction and the inadequate rehabilitation of...
Running the risk of collapse
Around 549 dilapidated buildings are live death traps for hundreds of people living in them and most of the structures are so shabby to...
