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Islamabad, AJK, GB residents deprived of free healthcare


June 4, 2024

ISLAMABAD: After the federal government failed to pay for the health card service, the residents of Islamabad, Azad Jammu Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan have been deprived of the healthcare facility as opposed to Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa residents. Raja Zafran Bhatti, 41, is a heart patient based in Islamabad. He recently visited Pims for medical treatment but the hospital refused him …

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AJK, GB phone network ‘bigger than rest of Pakistan’


March 1, 2022

ISLAMABAD: Almost entire Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan have telephone coverage, but the internet services are limited to 40 per cent areas of the region and that too is mainly the 3G network. According to the Pakistan Tele­com­­munication Authority (PTA) Annual Report 2021, the teledensity in the region increased by 8.3pc over the previous year 2019-20 to 95.4pc in …

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