The UN agency assisting Palestine refugees (UNRWA) is continuing to provide healthcare as best it can but overcrowded shelters and limited sanitation services, coupled with forced displacement, are posing severe health risks, the agency said in a post on X. Furthermore, safe water is unaffordable for many, and people are resorting to burning trash to…
“What doctors and medical staff are telling us is more and more they are seeing the effects of starvation; they’re seeing newborn babies simply dying because they (are) too low birth weight,” said Dr Margaret Harris from the UN World Health Organization (WHO). “Increasingly, we’re seeing children that are at the point, brink of death…
Increasing severity of cold, important news for students After the increase in the severity of the cold, there is an important news for the students. The Department of Primary and Secondary Education Peshawar has relaxed the uniforms of government schools due to the increase in cold. According to the announcement, children can come to school…
Briefing the UN Security Council, Volker Türk ran through a long list of rights abuses, saying that many “stem directly from, or support, the increasing militarisation of the DPRK.” His argument was reinforced by the UN independent human rights expert Elizabeth Salmón who told ambassadors that leaders of the DPRK – more commonly known as…
Today, the awareness day against forced child labor is being celebrated all over the world, including Pakistan. According to the United Nations, 1 out of every 5 children around the world is forced to do forced labor. The United Nations Children’s Organization UNICEF says that 160 million children between the ages of 5 and 17…
—File photo Measures to increase IT exports have been included in the federal budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2023-24. According to the budget document, the export of the IT sector has been targeted to increase to 4 billion 50 million dollars. It is proposed to introduce a fixed tax regime in the budget of…
The brutal suspects subjected the eunuchs to mass abuse and torture while intoxicated and took away their cash and mobile phones. Lahore: A transgender and three women were subjected to sexual brutality by the brutal accused. In the area of Raiwand, the brutal suspects subjected the eunuchs to mass abuse and torture while intoxicated and…
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the latest World Health Statistics check-up – covering data up to 2022 – “sends a stark message on the threat of noncommunicable diseases, which take an immense and increasing toll on lives, livelihoods, health systems, communities, economies and societies”. The report calls for a substantial increase in investments in health…
If no immediate solution can be found, PTA can recommend ban on Chat GPT, Chairman HEC, (Photo: Internet) Karachi: The new artificial intelligence program “GPT model” that reacts to human behavior has caused a stir in the scientific and non-scientific fields and the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan has taken steps to deal with some…
LONDON: A scheme to resettle Afghan civil society representatives in the UK has been delayed, adding to the plight and threats faced by Afghan journalists. According to Urdu News, organizations working in favor of press freedom have warned that Britain is failing to protect Afghan citizens, especially journalists. The delay in resettling Afghan citizens in…
