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Five million Chinese workers expected in Pakistan by 2025

KARACHI: There would be around five million Chinese nationals working in Pakistan by 2025 whose health needs can only be met by enhancing collaboration between Pakistani and Chinese medical universities, research institutes and biotechnological firms under the China Pakistan Health Corridor (CPHC), a senior Pakistani public health expert said. “In order to meet the health

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PHC rejects plea for riverbed mining

PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has turned down the petition of a Chinese private company to allow the excavation of sand and gravel from the bed of the Kunhar River for the construction activities of the Suki Kinari hydropower project in Manshera district. A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Ijaz Anwar

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Firefighters trying to save world\’s oldest tree

Firefighters battling to protect the world’s biggest tree from wildfires ravaging the parched United States said they are optimistic it can be saved. Flames are creeping closer to the majestic General Sherman and other giant sequoias, as man-made climate change worsens California’s fearsome fire season. “We have hundreds of firefighters there giving it their all,

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Mountaineers rescued from Rakaposhi

Three mountaineers stranded in Camp III of 7,788-metre-high Rakaposhi after summitting the peak last week were on Wednesday rescued and moved to Gilgit, according to Nagar Deputy Commissioner (DC) Zulqarnain Haider. The DC said the three climbers — a local mountaineer named Wajidullah Nagri and Jakub Vicek and Peter Macek of the Czech Republic —

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