LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has sounded the alarm regarding the health and medical treatment of their founding chairman and former prime minister, Imran Khan, expressing deep concerns over his well-being. The party has raised questions about the denial of medical facilities to one of the country’s most prominent leaders. In a statement posted on…
With Mother’s Day inching ever nearer, a perverse part of us can’t help but think of every mother haunting television who deserves to be pushed down a well – think Nazia in Mere Pas Tum Ho and Ruth Dewitt Bukater, aka Rose’s mother, from Titanic. But for every monstrous fictional mother whose understanding of…
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AMSTERDAM: Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem won the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday for his image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in the Gaza Strip. The picture was taken on October 17 2023 at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, where families were searching…
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Energy Sardar Awais Leghari said on Thursday that the country would face Rs560 billion in losses in the power sector by the end of June this year. He mentioned that Rs200 billion are billed in the power sector but remain unrecovered from consumers, while another Rs300 billion are lost due to…
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LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has termed a healthy population the backbone of a prosperous society. “It is very important for every individual to understand the importance of health. A person’s health is not just his personal matter but it affects the entire family,” she stated in her message on the World Health…
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ISLAMABAD: A health expert urged the public to adopt a healthy lifestyle which includes daily exercise, regular heart checkups and maintaining their weight in order to avoid heart-related deaths as the incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD) is alarmingly on the rise globally, and in Pakistan as well. A senior cardiologist, Major General (R) Azhar…
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KARACHI: The stabilising Pakistani currency on Friday slightly depreciated to Rs279.19 against the US dollar in the inter-bank market, coming down from over four-month high in the wake of a decline in the central bank’s foreign currency reserves below $8 billion. According to State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) data, the rupee ticked down 0.02%, or…
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ISLAMABAD: The interim government spent Rs191 billion on development projects during the first seven months of this fiscal year – a sum that is over Rs300 billion or 61% less than the target and underscores the implications of tough economic conditions. The Ministry of Planning reported on Tuesday that the development expenditures amounted to just…
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KARACHI: The central bank has reported that Pakistan has to pay $27.47 billion in foreign debt and interest cost over one year till the end of November 2024 and arrangements have already been made to pay a large proportion of the debt under the IMF loan programme. Talking to The Express Tribune, Optimus Capital Management…
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PESHAWAR: Having to choose between enrolling one’s child in school or paying for the successive chemotherapy sessions of an ailing parent is an undeniably poignant situation for any household however, the nightmarish imagining might soon become a familiar reality for many destitute families across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) in the coming year, who in the absence of…
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