Friday, July 5, 2024

Sindh

Army recovers kidnapped son of Sindh Chief Justice in raid near Tank

Son of Sindh High Court Chief Justice Awais Shah recovered in KPK raid. "All credit goes to army" for finding my son, Chief Justice said Awais Shah, abducted son of Sindh High Court Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, has been...

4 out of 10 Pakistanis live in multidimensional poverty

People in FATA and Balochistan living in extreme multidimensional poverty whereas poverty ratio in KPK is at 49%, Gilgit-Baltistan and Sindh at 43%, Punjab at 31% while the rate is lowest in Azad Jammu and Kashmir at 25% ISLAMABAD – Around 39 percent of...

Education Rankings 2016: Punjab tops, Balochistan and FATA lag far behind

Only 52% of government schools in the country have access to all four basic facilities which include toilets, boundary walls, electricity and drinking water, reveals the survey ISLAMABAD  - Pakistan District Education Rankings 2016 claims that Islamabad, Chakwal, and Kotli...

Humanitarian Response Facility in Sukkur to improve disaster preparedness

SUKKUR (Pakistan) - Pakistan's sixth Humanitarian Response Facility (HRF) was inaugurated in Sukkur to improve country's disaster preparedness levels. The new facility will assist disaster management authorities in Pakistan to respond efficiently to natural calamities and emergencies. Pakistan has become...

Heavy rain, thunderstorm across Pakistan claim 18 lives

At least 18 people were killed and several others injured in rain-related incidents in different areas of Baluchistan, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday as heavy rains and thunderstorm continued to lash various parts of the country. Torrential rains across...

Program supports Pakistan’s future entrepreneurs

Program funded by UN, ILO, FAO and Pakistan Government help generate self-employment opportunities leading to creation of viable micro-enterprises  DADU (Pakistan) - ‘’I’m going to re-establish my own beauty parlor that is going to be able to provide services that would normally be...

Farewell to Pangolin: Rare, endangered animal released back into the wild

Story of rescue and release of Indian Pangolin found in Karachi. Out of eight species of the pangolin that exist in the world, only one - Indian pangolin - is found in Pakistan and there is an urgent need for...

Humanitarian response facility set up in Sukkur

Pakistan Government and Internation donors join hands to enhance and Response in Sindh SUKKUR (Pakistan) - A new Humanitarian Response Facility (HRF) has been opened in Sukkur on Thursday. This HRF will be the second one in Sindh (and the sixth...

Senior representative of PPP Makhdoom Amin Fahim passes away

KARACHI - Veteran politician and senior Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim died in the early hours of Saturday at a local private hospital in Karachi, state-owned Radio Pakistan reported. He had earlier undergone lump surgery in Berlin....

WFP launches Food storage for malnourished children and mothers of Sindh

Karachi - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has inaugurated a Cold Storage facility in Karachi to store and protect high value nutritious items. The stored food commodities are to be distributed at the Nutrition and Livelihood projects...

Latest News

Storms cause flooding in Switzerland, Italy and France as wildfires rage in Turkey and Greece

Extreme weather across Europe has caused four deaths in storms in Switzerland and northern Italy, while wildfires have forced evacuations in Greece and Turkey.