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Shah Khalid Shah  Bajaur: In the rugged landscape of Bajaur District, memories of a once-thriving natural world still linger in the stories of its elders.  Eighty-five-year-old Malik Haroon Khan of Dele village in Khar Tehsil recalls…

News Desk  Islamabad: Marking International Women’s Day, Senator Sherry Rehman highlighted the disproportionate impact of conflict, inequality and economic exclusion on women, calling for urgent reforms to close Pakistan’s persistent…

AZERTAC/APP Baku: Extreme day-to-day temperature swings have intensified markedly in recent decades, particularly in low- and mid-latitude regions where most of the world’s population lives, a study published in Nature has found, Anadolu…

APP  Peshawar: As Pakistan’s population surpassed 245 million last year, the strain on its most vital resource—water—is becoming impossible to ignore.  In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), a combination of warm winters, declining snowfall, and…

Nadeem Tanoli Islamabad: Pakistan’s deepening education challenges came into sharp focus in Parliament on Friday as the Ministry of Education acknowledged that literacy gains remain far too weak to keep pace with the country’s rapidly…

News Desk  Lahore: Coordinator to the Federal Tax Ombudsman, Saif Ur Rehman, has warned that Pakistan’s rapidly growing population, coupled with intensifying climate change impacts, poses a grave threat to the country’s economic…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: In a country where nearly half the population lives below the poverty line, as reported by the World Bank, the sight of an elderly man balancing heaps of snack packets on his motorbike through the narrow…

Sher Ahmed Durrani  Islamabad: Balochistan is the largest province in Pakistan, and it stands at a complicated crossroads, struggling to come to terms with deep-seated poverty. This issue goes beyond the realm of economic statistics; it…

AFP/APP United Nations: Nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest population — about 900 million people — are directly exposed to climate hazards intensified by global warming, bearing what the United Nations has described as a “double…

APP Karachi: More than 2.4 million girls aged 9 to 14 years—66 percent of the target population—have been vaccinated during Sindh’s 12-day Human Papillomavirus (HPV) campaign, which concluded on Saturday. To boost coverage, district…