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Overview of the Major Issues of Pakistan

By: Munaj Gul Muhammad There is not a single country in the world that does not face any problems but some have the potential to overcome and some fail to solve the issues. Pakistan is a resource-rich country, adding millions of dollars every year in the national budget, yet when it comes to crises country is facing, money has not ...

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Letter: Safe use of Social Media can protect citizens from harm

Social media is one of the key social networking sources for people of the world today. Nearly two billion people in the world today use facebook and millions others use other social media forums. For thousands of people social media has also become source of income. Not everything that has several benefits is positive in every way. Social media too ...

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World No Tobacco Day: A Pledge to Have a World without Tobacco

By: Abdul Rehman World No Tobacco Day is celebrated every year on 31st March around the world. According to UN Institute for Health report, Pakistan is not only among the countries with most of the victims of smoking, but it also the largest producer of tobacco. Dr. Caesar Sajjad, former president of the Pakistan Medical says, “Every year more than ...

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Letter: Inactive Price Control Committee in Kalat

It is in a way a matter of the fact that in Kalat every trader has opened a hot market of robbing the innocent citizens because the price control committee in Kalat is totally inactive. There is no level of price control seen in kalat. Everything has been limited to only paper work. No practical implementation and no check and ...

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Pakistan hopeful of early completion of CASA-1000 to meet its energy shortfall

By: Shafek Koreshe PUGUS: The leaders of Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan met here Thursday to review the progress on the US 1.2 billion dollar CASA-1000 project and vowed to take all measures for its early completion. The quadrilateral project would allow export of 1300 MW of Central Asian electricity to Afghanistan and Pakistan by 2018. Besides the Prime Minister, ...

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BNP leader Malik Naveed Dehwar assassinated in Quetta firing

QUETTA:   Balochistan National Party (BNP) leader Malik Naveed Dehwar and his guard Zaheer Khan  were killed while one injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire at his  vehicle in  Arbab Karam Khan Road Quetta on Thursday. According to the reports unidentified gunmen sprayed bullets on the vehicle of the BNP leader leaving him and his guard dead on the spot. Another ...

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Summer Camp in Punjabi and Brahvi languages kicked at Lok Virsa

ISLAMABAD: Children summer camp in Punjabi and Brahvi languages kicked off here at Shakarparian under the aegis of the National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa). The objective of the camp is to provide an orientation to children (age group: 6-12 years) about Punjabi and Brahvi languages. Talking to media, Dr. Fouzia Saeed, Executive Director, Lok Virsa said ...

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Letter: Rising educational system of Baluchistan

 Referring to the letter “Dismal educational system in Baluchistan” by Tahira Shoukat Ali published on June 24th 2017, I would contribute some logical statements and appreciate her for pointing out several flaws in our education system such as; many teachers of government schools do not necessarily give duty but still get paid. However, I can’t agree with the author that Balochistan ...

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Letter: Load shedding a colossal setback in Turbat

Turbat is the divisional headquarter and commercial area of Kech district yet people are suffering from the issue of load shedding. Lack of this basic need has caused problems not only for households or public departments but small businesses that require electric power. Not merely the ones who don’t pay the bills suffer but the ones who pay face the ...

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The Balochistan Point launches its Mobile Application  with no fee

By:  Sima Batool Sahar Quetta: The Balochistan Point online English newspaper from Balochistan has launched its mobile app for mobile and tablets. The mobile app is now available on all Android devices with no charges. The app comes with lifetime free access to readers who download it through Android devices Appstore. All the available categories can be found in version ...

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