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Daily Archives: May 11, 2013

Geo News draws criticism from PML-N, PTI

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KARACHI: A day after Geo News unveiled what appears to be one of the largest election transmissions in the history of broadcasting in Pakistan, it drew criticism from the two parties who are predicted to steal the show in the polls being held across the country today. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) issued a press […]


Minorities vote may play significant role in polls

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KARACHI: Vijay, a 27-year-old sanitation worker of Narayanpura, sees the upcoming general elections as “yet another festival for Muslims” to which religious minorities have only been ‘invited’, but they have to stay “on the fringes” and not to take the centre-stage. “This is the second time that my name is on the voters’ lists to […]


7,311 Pak women die of cervical cancer

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ISLAMABAD: Cervical cancer kills an estimated 7,311 women in Pakistan annually.More women die of cervical cancer in India than anywhere in the world. India along with China, Brazil, Bangladesh and Nigeria represent over 50 per cent of the global burden of cervical cancer deaths. However, African countries are struggling to deal with cervical cancer too, […]