He received the award at the 2022 Canada Gairdner Awards Gala in Toronto Karachi, October 28, 2022: Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta, the founding director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health and the Institute for Global Health and…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The 12th edition of the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF), having the theme of Imagining New Frontier, has got underway digitally on March 26. It began with a documentary, showcasing highlights of…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Letters written to and from famous personalities to their contemporaries have often been most sought after ones and the publication of its collection in book form is welcomed warmly by the…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the Jinnah University for Women (JUW) in Karachi will be organizing an event by the name of JTECH at their campus, located…
Administrator Karachi Laeeq Ahmed on Tuesday directed concerned officials to make Al Markaz e Islami more beautiful and complete the renovation works at the earliest. After construction of auditorium, Islamic, educational and other events would be arranged here to apprise…
Administrator Karachi Laeeq Ahmed on Tuesday directed Medical and Health Services to establish oxygen plant to ensure timely provision of oxygen to Karachi Metropolitan Corporations hospitals. COVID-19 special ward at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital should remain functional around the clock. The…
British Deputy High Commissioner Mr Mike Nithavriankis has said that youth aspirants for civil service should expand their knowledge so that they could pass CSS examination and serve their country. “Civil service is a great profession and the one could…
A better, more alert and more active judiciary is the catalyst that Pakistan badly needs to bring a real change in the lives of its millions of impoverished citizens, said the speakers of a moot here Saturday night. The gathered…
The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) during its campaign of inspection of vehicles at various busy places and roads of the city during the last two months found that 22% of the vehicles were violating the provincial environmental law, which…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Prof Dr Ghani-ul-Akram Sabzwari, one of the pioneers in the field of Library & Information Science in Pakistan, is celebrating his 85th birthday on December 2. The Founder President of the…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Aga Khan University will launch a clinical trial of a portable, low-cost ventilator that aims to make lifesaving treatment such as assisted breathing available to patients before they reach the hospital.…
In view of the growing public concerns regarding air environmental degradation of the urban and rural areas of the Sindh province, the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) is planning to conduct an extensive air quality assessment survey of the whole…
The discussion was held in a first of its kind conference on climate change risks to the future of children in Pakistan, organized at a hotel in Karachi on Tuesday. The conference was organized by the Research and Development Foundation…
Commissioner and Administrator Karachi Iftikhar Ali Shallwani said that Karachi Metropolitan Corporation is providing equal opportunities to youths belonging to middle class to replace the current bureaucrats by establishing CSS Corners in different parts of the city. People of every…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Library Promotion Bureau (LPB), one of the pioneering non-governmental organizations of the country engaged in the field of education and research, befittingly hosted felicitation ceremony for Jumbo Publishings new book Mayar-e-Zindagi…
Pakistan has too few diabetes specialists to treat the nearly 19.4 million people suffering from the disease, said experts at a seminar at Aga Khan University held to announce the launch of a six-month certificate course in diabetes that seeks…
The global Disease Control Priorities Project estimates that nearly half of deaths and over a third of disability in low- and middle-income countries can be addressed by the implementation of effective emergency care. The solution is to establish integrated emergency…
The group of prominent doctors and show biz personalities have organized an evening of science and art coming together to spread awareness about a debilitating skin condition known as Urticaria in collaboration with Novartis Pharma Pakistan recently. The presentation had…