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News Desk United Nations: Deeply embedded gender bias that pervades family court systems across the world is placing women and children in situations of immense suffering and violence, said a United Nations report. “The tendency of…

News Desk Islamabad: Globally, 10 per cent of children and adolescents experience a mental disorder but the majority of them do not seek help or receive care. Moreover, suicide is the fourth leading cause of death in 15–19-year-old,…

News Desk Peshawar/Bahawalpur: The Provincial Meteorological Centre (PMC) Peshawar on Monday forecasted hot, humid and cloudy weather over most districts of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Meanwhile, the local Met Office predicted…

APP Peshawar: Unrestrained miscreants burned down the historic Radio Pakistan building in the provincial capital on May 10 in their fervour for destroying both private and public property, depriving millions of listeners of the rare…

APP Peshawar: A mobile game titled ‘Ryuko, Legend of Shadow Hunter’, prepared by a group of IT-educated youth from Peshawar, breaks all previous records globally by receiving more than 20 million downloads and a 4.9 rating from users on…

News Desk United Nations: Every day, some 1.6 million people worldwide fall ill from eating contaminated food which kills 420,000 people each year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: It is hot and the temperature is soaring, and the bone-tired man sleeps in the feeding trough as, after serving them with fodder, he is too tired to find a spot to sleep. Eid is a few days away but…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Gujar Khan: I have lived in the UK since 1967 having travelled there with my father as a young novice 11-year-old, from the 6th class. I wasn’t an outstanding student but wasn’t too bad either, perhaps a bit mischievous at…

News Desk Islamabad: The National Assembly on Saturday unanimously recognised and expressed gratitude for the contributions of international and civil society organisations and the Pakistani diaspora in addressing climate change-related…

News Desk Peshawar: A visit to a Salt Range hamlet in Pakistan uncovered a transformative solution: rainwater harvesting. Within a brief span, this simple and affordable method revitalized groundwater reservoirs, bringing water to over…