Health

 By: Mannan Samad The Red Circle is a documentary film produced by Tariq Ghani and Mehrab Khalid. The documentary encompasses the experiences of children who are struggling to cope with thalassemia. Tariq Ghani and Mehrab Khalid provide a comprehensive examination of the causes, symptoms, statistics, and repercussions of thalassemia and suggest ways to deal with it. They portray the depressing ...

By: Abdul Qadir Baloch  In this modern world, children use many food and beverage products and manufacturers of these products spend millions of rupees on marketing to capture maximum market shares. Their primary target is children. Worldwide, children are considered as a large consumer group. This segment is more vital for numerous food and beverage related business groups in a ...

 KHUZDAR:  Millions of people in Balochistan, Pakistan rely on burning kerosene oil and candles to light up their homes, and wood or dung to cook and heat water. This is expensive, dangerous and polluting for the people and environment as well. The schools and basic health centers are deprived of electricity which is affecting the education and health services, and ...

By: Munaj Gul Muhammad Sometimes, in some parts of Balochistan, wherever you look, you only see the young runaways indulged in drugs. The Kech District is one such place__Situated in southern Balochistan, the District is predominantly populated by Baloch with different castes and creeds. And in the erstwhile, the region is completely cut off from the rest of Balochistan’s development. ...

Islamabad: China-Pakistan Study Center, Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) in collaboration with Mishal Pakistan and AGAHI launched a series of webinars to deliberate on the political, economic and social impacts of COVID-19. The first debut seminar was held online attracting senior academics, researcher, media, diplomats and members of the civil society and business community. Speakers from Government, Development sector ...

By:  Abdul Hadi Zhob: Volunteers conducted awareness session about Coronavirus with the support of Environment Department Zhob and Individual Land. Few participants were invited as following the governmental instructions and precautionary measures of Coronavirus. The participants greeted with one another from the distance of 2/3 meters instead of shaking hands. Assistant Director Environment Department Zhob region Khaliq Dad Mandokhail told, ...

By: Zohaib Baloch For the past couple of days, I have come across with people who are being misguided by much false news, misinformation, vlogs, blogs, messages and other unofficial sources of information to prevent the coronavirus. Coronavirus originated from Wuhan, China to the whole world. Globalisation made us learn a new lesson that not just you can travel from ...

QUETTA: Medical Emergency Response Center (MERC) project, managed by PPHI Balochistan has commenced operations at Kalat and Khuzdar (N-25/RCD Highway). Trained paramedical teams are performing their duties at Emergency Response Center Baghbana Khuzdar and   Agha Kareem Khan Hospital Kalat.  Mr. Zulfiqar Sasoli Admin Manager MERC Project visited both centers and handed over the responsibility to the staff. Emergency centers are ...

By: Rafiullah Mandokhail ZHOB: As a goodwill gesture to provide health services to less-privileged communities at their doorstep, Frontier Corps Balochistan (North) set up a day-long free medical camp in remote and poverty-hit area Khadozai here. On the special directives of Inspector General of Frontier Corps (North) Major General Syed Fayyaz Hussain Shah, supervised by Commandant Zhob Militia Col. Tahir Bashir, ...

By: Rafiullah Mandokhail ZHOB: “The supply as well as use of drugs including hashish, heroin, opium, liquor and shisha has increased in Zhob city during the past couple of weeks, resultantly hundreds of young men got indulged in it, but the authorities concerned are reluctant to take an indiscriminate action against the ‘influential’ drug pushers,” president Pashtoon Action Committee Abdul ...