A new cleanliness plan for Karachi is being developed by the Sindh government which will eventually make the city a beautiful and livable place. This was said on Wednesday by Barrister Murtaza Wahab, the spokesperson for the Sindh government and adviser to the chief minister on law, environment and coastal development. He said the cleanliness […]
Hazardous medical waste, including used syringes and test tubes containing blood and other body secretions, continued to wash ashore on the Clifton beach on Wednesday. When students from different educational institutions reached the beach during the day and tried to collect the hazardous waste, they were warned by medical experts and media persons against cleaning […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has requested Twitter’s administration for a meeting to discuss the suspension of Pakistani handles tweeting in support of Kashmir since August 5, the day New Delhi stripped the occupied valley of its semi-autonomous status. “The PTA is already putting in efforts to engage Twitter to ensure freedom of expression […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) raised the issue of suspension of tweets and blocking of Twitter accounts apparently related to India-held Kashmir with the Twitter administration on Wednesday. The telecom sector regulator has also asked the users of the microblogging site to register their concerns about the suspension of their tweets or blocking of […]
LAHORE: The first-ever Sikh exhibition organised at the Lahore Museum shows that Pakistan cares about the safety of the rights of minorities. This was stated by Lahore Museum Director Tariq Mahmood as she spoke at the inauguration of the exhibition at the Lahore Museum on Tuesday. The show was organised in connection with the birth […]
KARACHI: Playwright William Shakespeare strongly believed in divinity. A number of examples can be quoted to support this claim, one of which is a line from the play Hamlet, “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends/ Rough-hew them how we will.” To make it simpler, it means, man proposes, God disposes. In the history of […]
LONDON: British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said Britain has asked the Indian government to respect international standards of human rights, respect rights of Kashmiris and end lockdown of Kashmir, which has now entered the second month. Speaking in the House of Commons to give policy statement of the British government, Dominic Raab expressed alarm […]
KARACHI: Barring a few tertiary care hospitals in the city, no healthcare facility in Karachi has a proper mechanism to safely collect and dispose of its medical waste. The highly hazardous refuse is either sold by healthcare facilities, unsafely dumped within the neighbourhoods or taken to the decades-old government incinerators lacking independent monitoring, medical experts […]
KARACHI: Around one fifth of the 200 Pakistani social media handles that posted in support of Kashmir have been restored since the National IT Board (NITB), on behalf of the Pakistan government, approached Twitter, The Express Tribune has learnt. However, since there was no official response from the tech giant, Islamabad has approached it once […]
Sindh’s local government minister has said that all the relevant stakeholders should take measures on a war footing to clear the municipal waste in Karachi, otherwise the situation indicates that the city is heading straight towards an environmental emergency. Addressing a news conference on Tuesday, LG Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah expressed his resolve that […]
KARACHI: The Sindh government has invited individuals and organisations to make ‘green spaces’ — an area of grass, trees, or other vegetation set apart for recreational or aesthetic purposes — across the province by utilising lands available with the public health and rural development department, officials said on Tuesday. “We have lands available at our […]
ISLAMABAD: With annual deforestation rate in Pakistan recorded as the world’s highest, the Lahore High Court has observed that such tendency will lead to increase in the spread of life-threatening diseases and ordered the Punjab government, Defence Housing Authority and various other development authorities to make a comprehensive policy for tree plantation and penalising those […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has given broadcasting rights to a foreign channel without an open bid and payment and claimed that it has been done to resolve a dispute. The channel which has got the broadcasting rights is apartner of the PCB. After taking legal advice, the PCB has given the broadcasting rights […]
Abid Zaidi Country Manager, Microsoft Pakistan has said that now more than ever, academic and government leaders need to open their eyes to the need for learning, embracing and investing in advanced technologies, particularly the unprecedented opportunities that the cloud can bring. While highlighting Pakistan’s digital transformation journey, he said that as businesses and organisations […]
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