917,285 children to receive anti-Polio drops

RAWALPINDI:As many as 917,285 children less than five years would be vaccinated against the crippling Polio virus during a week-long drive commencing from January 16 in all tehsils and union councils of the district. Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of District Health Authority, Dr. Ansar Ishaq, told reporter that 3,787 polio teams would go door-to-door while 243 […]

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Railways retrieved 974 acres of land from land grabbers

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan Railways has retrieved as many as 961 acres of its land worth Rs23,406 million during various anti-encroachment operations across the country from the land grabbers. “Around 480 acres retrieved in Punjab, 139 acres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 331 acres in Sindh and only 24 acres in Balochistan,” an official in the Ministry of Railways told […]

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PM leaves for Geneva to co-host ‘Climate Resilient Pakistan’ conference

ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday departed to Geneva along with a high-level delegation to co-chair an international conference on ‘Climate Resilient Pakistan’, along with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, being held on January 9. Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar, Minister of Climate Change Sherry Rehman and Minister for […]

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DC for strict implementation on anti-dengue SOPs

NAROWAL:District Emergency Response Committee (DERC) meeting was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Narowal Muhammad Shah Rukh Niazi in DC office. The meeting was attended by Assistant Commissioners (ACs) Zohaib Ahmed Anjum, Shiza Rehman, Dr. Arshad Watto, ACHRM Muhammed Jamil including officers of the Health department, Agriculture, Livestock, Environment, Population, Education, Rescue-1122, Civil Defence, […]

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