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Post 2015 Development Agenda and Youth

By: Mohsin Ali The complexity and interconnectedness of today’s globalized world have rendered development challenges increasingly interlinked and global in nature. Prosperity cannot be sustained without finding integrated and common solutions and without all countries contributing in a spirit of solidarity and shared responsibility. The post-2015 agenda has framed sustainable development as a universal project. On the one hand, it ...

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Letter: Robbery in Turbat

Now-a- days, robbery has become a major issue in Turbat. It is extremely common in various areas of Turbat. Many cases of robbery are being reported in Turbat. No serious action is being taken against the wrong doers. The police must conduct a search against robbers and recover robbed belongings of poor people. M. ilyas Turbat keach Published in the ...

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Letter: Dangerous act of carrying petrol in passenger Buses

It hurts to mention that, passenger Buses are taking petrol and diesel in Balochistan which is harmful for human life. Since last year a bus got fired in which many people lost their lives just because of taking petrol. It is illegal act which is being done in Balochistan. Governments need to stop Buses for taking petrol if they take ...

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Letter: Children kidnapping in Pakistan

I would like to highlight the issue of kidnapping children in Pakistan which is taking place id punjab very rapidly. Though the menace exists in entire country but it is mainly Punjab where the statistics are really appalling. As par police report, as many as 2000 children were kidnapped between 2015 and 2016 in Punjab. In last year there were ...

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letter: Industrial incidents in Pakistan

It is very disappointing to know that in Pakistan the list of burning issues in industries is being very high. Earlier in 2014, on December, The timber market near old Haji camp in Karachi gutted. Unfortunately in this market an incident was happened which caused 250 shops, 50 warehouse and 18 residential buildings were destroyed. Moreover, in Lahore due to ...

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Joint Investigation Team to probe Quetta blast

Quetta: The Balochistan government on Wednesday formed a high-level Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe into the August 8 suicide bombing in Quetta Civil Hospital which killed 70 people and left dozens injured. Senior police officer Zahoor Afridi would head the JIT, sources in Balochistan’s Home and Tribal Affairs Department said, as well as the ,officers belonging to the Inter-Services ...

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Is The Housing Shortage Now at Crisis Point?

By: Shahzeen Haris Karachi: Pakistan’s rapid urban population growth is causing a severe housing shortage—estimated to be in the region of 10 million units—and demand continues to grow at a rate of 0.7 million units per year. The urban housing shortage is somewhere in the region of 3.5 to 4 million units, most of which is in the economically weaker ...

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The poor daughter of Balochistan

By: Dr Sadia Ali Benazir, a 16-year-old girl from Balochistan’s gas rich Dera Bugti district, came with blood-soaked clothes and escorted by her malnourished and traumatised parents to a government hospital in Quetta. With no health and maternity facilities her first pregnancy went wrong due to lack of healthcare facilities and the unskilled midwife’s desperate efforts to get her to ...

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Letter: Delay in Books provision to students in Balochistan

Balochistan Textbooks Board of Intermediate and secondary education is too much late to provide textbooks to student. Availability of books ensures to complete a course or subject on time, however, the Board is still unable to provide books in schools of summer areas. Schools reopened on 9th of August yet no textbooks have been sent to schools. The delay in ...

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Letter: Water shortage in Hub

I want to draw the attention of Balochistan government to the adequate water supply in the towns of Hub and Gaddani. Recently, these areas have seen large numbers of migration of non- locals. Nevertheless, no attempt has been taken to address this shortage. It is very important that the ratio of water supply to these areas from Hub dam should ...

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