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Nearly 25,000 patients in the city suffered on Wednesday as the outpatient department (OPD) of all public hospitals remained shut owing to the strike...

Much like other parts of the country, prolonged and unscheduled power outages have made the lives of people miserable in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining...

LAHORE - Hundreds of patients suffered as the strike of Punjab's doctors continues for an increase in salaries on Thursday.
The ongoing strike has completed a month of protests in which the Young Doctors Association (YDA) demonstrated outside hospitals and administered treatment to patients in medical camps there.
Routine duty in several teaching hospitals of the province, including those in Lahore, is suspended due to the strike.
The YDA said the strike will continue

KARACHI - Pakistan's banking sector is feared to weaken as money supply, propelled by the ever-increasing government borrowings, remains on the higher side. According to provisional data of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the Broad Money (M2), an economic indicator, showing liquidity in the economy, has soared to an alarming 9.44 percent to Rs 545.515 billion during July-March 12 FY11.
Last year, during July-March 13, the M2 had grown by 6.72 percent to Rs 345.093 billion. This

ISLAMABAD - The two computerised tomography (CT) scan machines at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) were out of order and the number of patients at private clinics and laboratories of the doctors concerned at this hospital was increasing manifold, a source in the radiology department of PIMS told Pakistan Today. The source said there were only two CT scan machines in the hospital and both had been out of order for the last six months because of poor maintenance. The

KASUR - People are suffering because of suspension of train service in Kasur. As per details, Pakistan Railways administration had suspended the services of four trains namely 321up, 322 down, 257 up and 258 down due to non availability of diesel. Many passengers had been waiting for their desired trains for many hours because they were not informed about the suspension of the service. This step would severely affect the passengers from those areas which lie around the railway track

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 - "No one has any idea how many people have died and how many others are still suffering because of a ban on kite flying," says Khalid, a thread manufacturer. "There have been suicides, deaths and several women and young girls have taken to prostitution, only because the Punjab government could not come up with a better strategy to handle Basant," he says.
The ban is not only restricted to Basant, but stretches out the entire year and stops anyone from kite flying, has

KARACHI - There has been no let-up in gender-based violence in Sindh, reveals a six-month report compiled by the Aurat Foundation (AF) in collaboration with Irish NGO Trocaire.
PML-F MPA Marvi Rashdi, AF Karachi Resident Director Mahnaz Rahman, AF representatives Shireen Aijaz and Fareeda Tahir, and others formally launched the report titled 'Policy and Data Monitor on Violence against Women' based on the period between July and December 2010, at the Karachi Press Club on

KARACHI - There has been no let-up in gender-based violence in Sindh, reveals a six-month report compiled by the Aurat Foundation (AF) in collaboration with Irish NGO Trocaire.
PML-F MPA Marvi Rashdi, AF Karachi Resident Director Mahnaz Rahman, AF representatives Shireen Aijaz and Fareeda Tahir, and others formally launched the report titled 'Policy and Data Monitor on Violence against Women' based on the period between July and December 2010, at the Karachi Press Club on

MUMBAI - Recently on the chat show 'Koffee With Karan,' viewers found out that the Bachchan family suffers from the Oppressive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Amitabh was on the show with his daughter Shweta - this is the first time that the father-daughter pair has appeared on television. When asked by Karan what is the one thing about Bachchan that nobody knows, the witty Shweta revealed that everyone in the Bachchan household suffers from the Oppressive Compulsive Disorder.