Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The representative body of health professionals has advised doctors not to suggest costly tests as dengue virus can be confirmed with tests that are four times cheaper. On the other hand, there was no let-up in the number of dengue cases as during the last 24 hours, Islamabad reported 55 new patients and Rawalpindi 73. Talking to Dawn, Pakistan Medical …

KARACHI: Expressing concern over the high number of dengue and malaria cases being reported in Karachi and rest of the province, the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has called upon the government to make ongoing anti-mosquito spray campaigns more effective and drain out stagnant water/sewage from the flood-affected areas as well as Karachi. The PMA issued guidelines for dengue prevention as …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Railways has decided to shut down a 150-year-old bridge near Transit Camp after a monthly survey conducted by the officials concerned declared the bridge “dangerous” for all types of traffic owing to years of negligence. The decision taken by the railways authorities came after a portion of a protective wall on the bridge was found damaged. The …

WASHINGTON: The floods in Pakistan are a forewarning to other nations that climate change can wreak unimaginable havoc if corrective steps are not taken immediately, Pakistan’s US Ambassador Masood Khan said in an interaction with the media at Washington’s National Press Club on Sunday. “This phenomenon is going to grow whether it is Pakistan or any other country in South …

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa said on Saturday that Pakistan will need a long-term plan which includes “delayed action dams and water drainage system” to mitigate the impacts of disasters caused by climate change. The army chief made these remarks during his visit to flood-affected areas of Dadu, a district in Sindh most parts of which …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) has urged the government to announce a strategy to deal with a potential medical crisis and establish a panel of medical experts to formulate a national policy to avert epidemics in the wake of floods that have left most parts of the southern country submerged. The demand came during a press conference held …

LAHORE: A special court (central-I) has ordered the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) to attach 13 more accounts of the companies owned by Suleman Shehbaz, a son of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who is a proclaimed offender in a Rs16 billion money laundering case registered by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). A written court order issued about Sept 7 hearing …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders and workers on Saturday held protests at 36 places across the country to give a loud and clear message to the government that they would not accept the ‘minus-one formula’. The protests were held on the call of PTI Central Sec­retary General Asad Umar, who urged PTI workers and people to gather at 36 places …

Law enforcement agencies in Karachi on Sunday claimed to have arrested two militants belonging to the outlawed Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The arrests were confirmed by the District Central Police and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in separate press statements. According to District Central police, the law enforcement personnel in collaboration with …

KARACHI: The Nazim Jokhio case took a dramatic turn on Saturday when his mother approached a sessions court and denied having reaching any out-of-court settlement over her son’s murder with an interned Pakistan Peoples Party lawmaker Jam Awais Bijar and others. “It is most respectfully prayed in your honour that I did not compromise with the accused persons, as earlier …