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News Desk  Islamabad: Approximately 150 children die due to various birth defects on a daily basis in Pakistan as revealed by Dr Muhammad Arshad, a distinguished pediatric surgeon and president of the Association of Pediatric Surgeons of…

News Desk  Islamabad: A team of scientists led by Dr Amir Ali Abbasi at the National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-I-Azam University (QAU), has unraveled the reasons behind Pakistan's lower COVID-19 contagion rates during the…

News Desk Islamabad: Anti-polio efforts in Balochistan suffered a significant setback with the confirmation of the second case of polio reported in the province within the last 24 hours. According to sources from the Balochistan…

APP Rawalpindi: President Al-Shifa Trust (AST) Eye Hospital, Maj Gen (retd) Rehmat Khan, highlighted a concerning trend on Monday, stating that every fourth person in the country suffers from diabetes, with 25 percent of them unaware of…

News Desk Islamabad: There is a forecast for widespread rains and isolated hailstorms with snowfall in the mountainous regions of Punjab over the next few days. The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has predicted the influence of a…

News Desk  Rawalpindi: The anti-polio drive commenced in Rawalpindi on Monday with the inauguration led by Commissioner Aamir Khattak and Deputy Commissioner Dr Hasan Waqar Cheema, who administered immunizations to children under the age…

Zareef Baloch Gwadar: In the political history of Gwadar and other Baloch-populated areas in Balochistan, religious political parties have struggled to garner as much support as Baloch nationalist parties. Gwadar, renowned for the…

APP Swat: The Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) candidates have emerged as formidable contenders, posing a significant challenge to former Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in his native constituency of the National…

APP Islamabad: Approximately 34 million people in Pakistan, constituting 26.7 percent of the adult population aged 20–79, are affected by diabetes. This rate is significantly higher than the global average, where approximately 1 in every…

Xinhua/APP Colombo: The population of dengue mosquitoes in Sri Lanka that transmit the dengue virus has increased by 29.5 percent, state media reported on Saturday, quoting the National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU). The NDCU said the…