Saturday, June 15, 2013
Shahina Maqbool
Islamabad After a lull of six months, there is talk once again, of the draft of senior citizens bill having been finalised by the government for presentation in the National Assembly. Abdul Latif Leghari, additional secretary ...

Friday, June 14, 2013
Shahina Maqbool
Islamabad Colonel (r) Zafar Qureshi, a voluntary blood donor who has donated his blood, not once or twice, but 173 times since 1963 when he was a student of 1st year at the Peshawar University, received standing ovation for his ...

Saturday, June 08, 2013
Shahina Maqbool
ISLAMABAD The only woman in the caretaker government, Dr. Sania Nishtar, concluded her term with an unusual gift to all functionaries of the government of Pakistan. The gift is a wallpaper inscribed message (available on the ...

Friday, June 07, 2013
Shahina Maqbool
Islamabad The only woman in the caretaker government, Dr. Sania Nishtar, concluded her term with an unusual gift to all functionaries of the government of Pakistan. The gift is a wallpaper inscribed message (available on the ...

Thursday, June 06, 2013
Shahina Maqbool
Islamabad Will the Ulema Conference sketch a new face for polio eradication in Pakistan, or will it be no more than an inconsequential platform where national and international scholars converged to pay lip service to the cause of ...

Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Shahina Maqbool
Islamabad The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has expressed deep concern over the programme’s weak grip on communication and social mobilisation in key endemic areas, including ...

Monday, June 03, 2013
Shahina Maqbool
ISLAMABAD: Compelling media reports, coupled with a persuasive presentation on implications of the caretaker government’s decision to dismantle the Prime Minister’s Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell, have convinced the caretaker ...

Monday, June 03, 2013
Shahina Maqbool
Islamabad Compelling media reports, coupled with a persuasive presentation on implications of the caretaker government’s decision to dismantle the Prime Minister’s Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell, have convinced the ...

Sunday, June 02, 2013
Shahina Maqbool
Islamabad In a major development that unfolded on Saturday, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has demanded restoration of the Prime Minister’s Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell, ...

Saturday, June 01, 2013
Shahina Maqbool
Islamabad Pakistan’s key partners in the fight against polio, notably Rotary International, as well as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef, have disapproved the dissolution of the Prime Minister’s Polio Monitoring and ...