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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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The Balochistan Point losses its data of more than three months due to the crash in Main Server in Ukrain

Quetta: The Balochistan Point has lost its data of more than three months due to the crash in Main Server in Ukrain on Monday. More than 1000 websites remained down for not less than 24 hours due to the crash in the main Server. The affected websites have been transferred to the new server; however, the data of hundreds of websites could ...

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A Pakistani Ethical Hacker wins $5,000 Bounty for identifying Firefox, Chrome address bar spoofing flaw

By Hisham Sarwar Rafay Baloch, a Pakistani (Islamabad) based security researcher/ethical hacker has won US$ 5,000 in a combined bug bounty for identifying a huge bug. This bug exists in various browsers such as Chrome, Firefox etc covering 75% of whole internet traffic. The bug is an Address-bar Spoofing bug, which means that a hacker can display whatever URL in ...

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Letter: Correction in CSS

The ongoing corruption in Balochistan is existing in educational sectors. Correction in CSS test is a major problem mounting around the province. This appears the weak education sector in the well qualified CSS students’ career and lives are destroyed just owing to corruption. Balochistan’s education sector entrapped from top to bottom. In CSS just a few people are with high ...

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PRC confers lifetime membership to Dr.Shehla

Mir Behram Baloch Quetta: In recognition of Dr.Shehla Sami’s courageous work for providing treatment to the injured of Quetta Hospital blast amid all the chaos on 8 August 2016, Pakistan Red Crescent (PRC) has conferred her with honorary lifetime membership of PRC & presented her shield in a ceremony at PRC building today. Medical Superintendent Civil Hospital Quetta Abdul Rehman ...

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