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Insaf education card program to benefit over 244,000 students: CM

September 9, 2022

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has directed the concerned authorities to work out modalities for the commencement of Insaf Education Card which is expected to benefit 244,927 students enrolled in government colleges throughout the province. The scheme includes waiver of the entire fee and will cost approximately Rs1 billion to the provincial exchequer. […]

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THQ hospital staff\’s alleged negligence leads to death of girl

September 9, 2022

BOONI: An 11-year-old girl died after being brought to the Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital of Booni on Thursday due to alleged negligence of the hospital staff. Reports circulating on social media showed the father of the girl staging a sit-in on the premises of the hospital and refusing to receive the dead body of his

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UN warns of post-flood humanitarian crisis

September 7, 2022

GENEVA: The United Nations (UN) has warned the humanitarian situation in flood-ravaged Pakistan was expected to get worse, a day after establishing an air bridge to deliver aid to victims. More than 33 million people in Pakistan have been affected by the flooding, brought on by record monsoon rains amplified by climate change. The floods

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Prevalence of blindness declines in Pakistan: report

September 6, 2022

ISLAMABAD: The prevalence of visual impairment amongst people aged 50 and above in Pakistan has reduced remarkably as fresh data show this ratio has come down to only two per cent against seven per cent recorded in 2004, according to the third national survey of blindness conducted by the Federal Ministry of Health. “About 44,800

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Cash compensation for rehabilitation of houses approved

September 6, 2022

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has approved the provision of cash compensation for rehabilitation of houses that were destroyed in the recent floods. Chairing the first meeting of a committee to oversee the management and utilization of Chief Minister’s Flood Relief Fund here on Tuesday, Mahmood Khan directed the concerned authorities for opening

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