UVAS dispatches relief goods for flood affectees

LAHORE:Livestock Secretary Muhammad Malik Bhulla has said that the department should provide full support to the veterinary relief camps, set up by students and teachers for the help of flood affectees. He was addressing a ceremony, held here to dispatch relief goods for the flood-hit people, by the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences on […]

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PM to visit flood-hit areas in Sindh’s Qambar Shahdad Kot

ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will visit Qamber Shahdad Kot in Sindh today to oversee the flood relief activities in the flood-hit areas. The prime minister will meet the flood victims at the relief camps set up to accommodate a large number of displaced people. He will also undertake an aerial view of the inundated areas […]

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Post-floods: 650,000 unborn babies at high risk of contracting lifelong ailments

LAHORE:The First Impact Overview of 2022 torrential flooding in Pakistan warned on Monday that nearly 650,000 unborn babies, expected to be delivered in the next three to five weeks, are at high risk of contracting lifelong ailments as a consequence of several waterborne, vector-borne and airborne diseases. According to the Asia & Oceania Post-Doctoral Academia […]

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1000 non-formal schools to be established in South Punjab

LAHORE:As many as 1000 non-formal schools are being established in south Punjab with the cooperation of UNICEF to educate illiterate people by the Literacy Department. Addressing a press conference at Directorate General Public Relations (DGPR) here on Monday, Secretary Literacy and non-formal education Wajihullah Kundi said that under the ‘Taleem Programme’ as many as 4.3 […]

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PPL donates Rs15 mln to PDMA

PESHAWAR:Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) has donated Rs 15 Million to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Disaster Management Authority for flood relief operations. The donation cheque was presented to Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dr. Shahzad Khan Bangash by General Manager Corporate Services PPL Brigadier Syed Mahmood ul Hassan (Retd) on Monday at the CS Office. The Secretary […]

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DMO bars KP governor, CM, ministers, aides from attending PTI’s political gathering

PESHAWAR:District Monitoring Officer of NA-31, Peshawar-V in a letter issued here on Monday barred Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor, chief minister, advisers, special assistants and other government officers from attending PTI’s public gathering schedule for September 6 here. The DMO said that as per the rules of Election Commission and para 17-B of the elections’ code of […]

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TDCP organizes anti-dengue walk

MULTAN:Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab (TDCP) arranged an anti-dengue walk to create awareness among public about the fatal disease. The walk began from clock tower and culminated at fort Qasim wherein TDCP staff participated. Regional General Manager Ashar Iqbal Malik and In charge Tourism Promotion Haider Raza Shah distributed pamphlets among citizens about precautions on […]

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