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Medical waste being dumped around Abbasi Shaheed Hospital in Karachi

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KARACHI: The scale of government apathy towards what health experts described as a ‘volatile source of infection’ could be gauged from the heaps of unattended medical waste lying in and outside one of city’s largest public sector hospitals. A visit to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) on Wednesday showed that there were three garbage dumps, […]


‘Pakistan can increase IT exports by training youth’

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KARACHI: Pakistan can increase its IT exports by a wide margin if it focuses on providing training to its youth on how they can form groups or companies rather than operating as individuals to compete more efficiently in the bidding process. This was stated by E-commerce Gateway Pakistan President Dr Khursheed Nizam in a press […]


Sindh asks federal agencies to help dispose of their waste in Karachi

Sindh Environment and Law Adviser Barrister Murtaza Wahab has demanded that the federal land-owning agencies in Karachi, including the cantonment boards, DHA, KPT and Pakistan Railways, should engage the Sindh government in properly disposing of the municipal waste generated in their respective territories at the two main landfill sites of the city. He raised this […]


Strategy being made to ‘improve human rights situation in Sindh’

The Sindh human rights department is chalking out a comprehensive strategy to improve the situation of human rights in the province and a formal announcement in this regard will be made very soon. Veerji Kolhi, the special assistant to the Sindh chief minister on human rights, said this on Thursday as he was speaking at […]