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Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah paid a surprise visit to the city to ensure the removal of billboards, neon signs, traffic sign boards, and other loose installations to avert damage or any untoward incidents during the cyclonic winds which are expected to lash the city on June 15. Mr. Shah without protocol, accompanied…
Chairman NDMA, Lt. General Inam Haider Malik presided National Coordination Conference to review the development of Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm (ESCS) BIPARJOY over Arabian Sea in PDMA Sindh Headquarter, Karachi. Representatives of relevant stakeholders including PMD, PDMAs Sindh & Balochistan, K-electric, PMSA HQ, DDMAs, Radio Pakistan and APP participated in session. PMD briefed that BIPARJOY…
The United States Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome visited the Aga Khan Universitys Stadium Road campus in Karachi. He was accompanied by U.S. Consul General in Karachi, Nicole Theriot. In his conversations with AKU leaders, Ambassador Blome applauded the decades-long collaboration between AKU, and the U.S. universities and development agencies, focusing on research, training and…
Hamid Khan Group’s candidate Abid Shahid Zuberi has been elected President of the Supreme Court Bar Association for 2022-23. Abid Zuberi got 1347 votes while his opponent Khalid Javed Khan Advocate of Asma Jahangir Group got 1148. He has expressed his thoughts in these words after his great success. help from Allah and a near…
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 Development at the Aga Khan University (AKU), is the first Pakistani to receive the John…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) A collection on teaching teachers titled Signature Pedagogies of Teacher Education in Pakistan has been launched on World Teachers Day by the Aga Khan Universitys Institute for Educational Development. The teaching profession depends on research, on a foundation of evidence-based efforts to understand the effectiveness of…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) To address the critical gap in the response to the non-communicable disease (NCD) epidemic, the Aga Khan University (AKU), in partnership with Duke University, has designed a comprehensive, integrated, multi-disciplinary training programme to train the next generation of leaders in NCD research. This programme, focused on…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Having completed about five decades in the legal profession, Barrister Khawaja Naveed Ahmed, an ex-Judge of the High Court of Sindh, has been admired for his judicial acumen and proficiency.. The 596-page book titled Reported Judgements of Barrister Khawaja Naveed Ahmed having just hit the market…
Collosal is the loss of the Kashmir earthquake of October 8, 2005: Approximately 38,000 were injured and over 3.5 million rendered homeless. An estimated 19,000 children died in the earthquake, most of them in widespread collapses of school buildings. The earthquake affected more than 500,000 families. Earthquakes pose a potential threat to human life…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) A delegation of the National Library Association (NLA), headed by its President, Muzaffar Ali Shah, called on Prof Dr Farhat Hussain, the newly appointed chairperson of the University of Karachis Department of Library & Information Science at the campus on September 6. The NLA Advisor, Syed…
” Seldom pondered and realized that literacy is the root of character building. Difficult to believe real literacy teaches, nurtures and blossoms mutual patience, tolerance and fellow feeling towards mutual goodwill, cheers and happiness. ” — PJ. World Literacy Day September 8: “Literacy” understood as being able to read and write or to have…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The National Library Association (NLA) organized a reception in the honour of the California-based eminent scholar and orator, Ahsan Rafiq, in Karachi on August 29. The ceremony, attended by more than 25 representatives from different walks of life, was presided over by the NLA Advisor, Syed…
Pakistan refers to purity, promise and potential. Here in question is the commoner, the majority of the people of Pakistan. It is a matter of Gross National Happiness or quality of life of our people aslyrics Schumacher with “small is beautiful” notion. Indeed, the all-time brightest for the nation is world’s guiding light from…
IMAGINE kids waving national flags wowing for Pakistan town after town, city after city and province after province from Karachi to KPK! It echoes a resolve strongest than the steel and higher than the himalayas for the love and care, for sanctity and sacrifice for Pakistan. Come Independence Day August 14, Pakistan’s promising kids chant…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) government and the Aga Khan University (AKU) have signed a memorandum of understanding that will lead to the formal adoption and deployment of the universitys mobile health application and web portal, Hayat, into the regions routine health services. Hayat allows lady health workers,…
Even thinking or talking of any remedies how to grapple with the spiraling and uncontrollable price-hike is a very tough ask, what to talk of actually implementing fanciful ideas and solutions for the rocketing prices! While inflation is round-the-year phenomenon from man in the street to elitist or opulent gossiping about it as fashion, in…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Public health researchers are set to evaluate the feasibility of a faster way to detect new cases of COVID-19 in Karachi. Infectious disease epidemiologists from Aga Khan University, the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, and the World Health Organizations Pakistan Office will collaborate with Karachis District…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Upon the special directives of the Divisional Superintendent, Railways, Karachi, Muhammad Hanif Gul, a crackdown was carried out by the Divisional Commercial Officer (DCO), Nasir Nazeer, on vending stalls, restaurants and dining cars in trains. The DCO Railway Karachi took action against vending stalls and confiscated…