The droughts have destroyed harvests in areas where 70 per cent of the population depends on agriculture for survival. Executive Director McCain said what she has seen has been both alarming and heartbreaking. “I met farmers who usually grow enough to feed their families and communities. This year they harvested nothing. Now imagine a similar…
On the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, marked annually on 23 May, we are taking a look at the important role of midwives and tuning in to UN Radio’s featurette from 1963, The Magic Suitcase, narrated by Hollywood star Jack Benny. The radio and television entertainer joined the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the 1960s…
Hostilities across Gaza reportedly continued on Wednesday, fuelling already alarming aid access problems and dire food insecurity as the main entrance routes for relief convoys remained closed or too dangerous to access, UN aid workers warned. PNP Deskpnp.com.pk
Photo: Express Web Karachi: Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi Acting Ameer Munim Zafar Khan has said that the billions of rupees defaulted K Electric has left the entire Karachi in darkness. While holding a news conference at Noor Haq Institute, Munim Zafar Khan said that the whole of Karachi is fed up with the K Electric mafia. The…
Peshawar: Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Faisal Karim Kundi has banned the photo shoot of newly married couples in the Governor House. Speaking to senior journalists, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi said that due to this move, the privacy and historical status of the Governor’s House was being damaged. Governor KP said that he is ready…
Karachi: The Board of Higher Secondary Education Karachi has announced on the direction of the Minister of Universities and Bursaries Muhammad Ali Malkani that the Annual Intermediate Examinations in Karachi for the year 2024 will now start from June 1 instead of May 28. Due to the increase in heat intensity in the city, the…
Lahore: The Punjab government has decided not to charge any fee at the sale points of sacrificial animals, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif directed to ensure zero waste on Bakra Eid. According to Express News, a meeting of chief officers of municipal institutions across Punjab was held under the chairmanship of Local Government Minister Zeeshan…
No injunction to block mobile phone SIMs of non-filers, Islamabad High Court The Islamabad High Court has made it clear that there is no injunction to block mobile phone SIMs of non-filers. A case was heard in the High Court against the government’s decision to block the mobile phone SIMs of tax non-filers. The federal…
Islamabad: The government has decided to form an inquiry committee on the Kyrgyzstan issue, which will be headed by Additional Foreign Secretary Muhammad Salim. While giving a briefing on the visit to China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said that this fact-finding committee will investigate how much duty our…
Peshawar: PTI leader Sher Afzal Marwat says that I was removed from the core committee and then removed from the political committee, if you want to remove me from anything else, remove me. Talking to the media in Peshawar High Court, Sher Afzal Marwat said that I am with the founder PTI and will stay…
