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PAKISTAN
Women doctors bring remote care to rural Pakistan
In a remote Pakistani village surrounded by lush green hills, Mohammad Fayyaz brings his two-year-old son to a clinic so that a female doctor sitting hundreds of kilometres away can examine him. Healthcare in rural Pakistan and the careers of women doctors are being revolutionised as internet access grows across the country, allowing people
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Chitral least populous NA constituency in KP
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the average quota per seat as calculated by the ECP comes to 782,651. The data shows that NA-1 Chitral has the population of 447,362 while NA-17 Haripur has the population of 1,003,031. In Punjab, the average quota per seat is 780,266 but NA-55 Attock-I constituency has the population of 960,927, followed by
How Jinnah\’s vision of a secular democracy fell victim to hate and distortion
Seventy years ago today, Mohammad Ali Jinnah took to the floor of the Constituent Assembly as its first elected president and delivered the iconic lines, “You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this state of
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Unchecked flow of water destroying Chitral\’s roads
چترال(گل حماد فاروقی) ویسے تو چترال کی تمام سڑکوں کی حالت نہایت حراب ہے جس کی وجہ سے آئے روز سڑک حادثات پیش آتے ہیں جن میں کئی قیمتی جانیں ضائع ہوئی ۔ مگر چترال کے سڑکوں کی تباہی کا ایک اور بنیادی وجہ سڑک پر بہتا ہوا پانی ہے جو تارکول کو قلیل عرصے
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Chitral’s reconstruction needs over Rs1 bn
The reconstruction of roads and bridges will require Rs1.106 billion of which Rs635.2 million will be needed for reconstruction of damaged roads and Rs470.85 million will have to be spent on rebuilding of the destroyed bridges, a report says. Besides, compensation for the damaged houses would cost Rs122.460 million, rebuilding of irrigation channels across the
‘We lost terribly in the 1965 war’
People are unaware of this fact because the history that is taught in Pakistan is from an ideological viewpoint, said Dr Zaidi during his thought-provoking lecture titled ‘Questioning Pakistan’s history’. “Students are not taught the history of the people of Pakistan rather it is focused on the making of Pakistan,” he said. The event was