Pakistan certifies first organic cotton bale
Balochistan on Wednesday marked the certification of Pakistan's first organic cotton bale at a ceremony held at Kot Sabzal. Balochistan's Minister for Agriculture Engineer Zamrak Khan said the provincial
Balochistan on Wednesday marked the certification of Pakistan's first organic cotton bale at a ceremony held at Kot Sabzal. Balochistan's Minister for Agriculture Engineer Zamrak Khan said the provincial
Smoking damages lungs in many ways as the irritating effect of cigarette smoke attracts cells to the lungs that cause inflammation. According to the head of pulmonology department, Liaquat University of Medicine and Health Sciences (LUMHS), Dr Rashid Ahmed Khan, cigarette smoke also stimulated inflammatory cells to release elastics, an enzyme that broke down elastic fibres in lung tissue.
Two children have reportedly died of gastroenteritis while the flow of patients is rising at state-run and private hospitals in the district. Reports said one-year-old Qasim Ali of Ghakhar Mandi died at a private hospital in Daska on Sunday. His body was shifted to Ghakhar Mandi from Daska for burial. In Pasrur, six-year-old Khalid also died of gastroenteritis.
Emphasising the need to enhance wheat yield in view of its growing demand, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday directed the officials concerned to ensure availability of quality seeds to achieve the wheat production target in the province.
MORE and more people are being trapped in poverty owing to soaring food and oil prices, fragile macroeconomic conditions and mass displacements as a result of ongoing military operations against insurgency in different parts of the NWFP.
Residents of Mohammad Yaqoob Mahar village have expressed concern over encroachment by land mafia at irrigation land adjacent Mirpurkhas Railway Employees Housing Society, as a result of which they maintained that the only path leading to their village and other areas, including Juma Machhi Para, Rangar Para and Kumbhar Para has been blocked.
A man died of gastroenteritis while at least 500 people, including women and children, were affected in Chak 62-JB, Chanan Ke, on Jhang Road, here on Thursday. Scores of gastroenteritis patients were brought to the one-room state-run rural health centre (RHC) in Chanan Ke during the last two days. However, owing to lack of space at RHC all victims were treated at their houses.
The officials of different town administrations of the provincial capital have badly failed to carry out their duties during the Eid holidays, and that was why heaps of garbage were seen along the roads and in the streets across the city.
The controversy surrounding the excavation and embankment raising work carried out in and around the Makli Hills necropolis by a powerful politician keeps cropping up every so often despite official efforts to settle the issue amicably.
The government is planning to spend Rs 17 billion on special measures to alleviate poverty and address the issue of unemployment in the province, said Punjab Minister Haji Muhammad Ishaq on Wednesday.
The federal government is introducing new vaccines to safeguard children against influenza in addition to diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis and tetanus.