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Islamabad: The significance of youth in any society cannot be undermined, therefore every possible step is being taken to facilitate youth, said Dr Arshad Ali Executive Director Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Tuesday. In a meeting with 150 students from universities of Balochistan who visited here, Dr. Arshad gave students an overview of HEC initiatives for development of higher education ...

Quetta: The provincial Emergency Operation Center (EOC) of Balochistan coordinator, Syed Faisal Ahmed, has said that a three-day anti-polio campaign would kick off by 26th of September 2016, covering 30 districts of Balochistan and aiming at a target population of 2,475,389 children of fewer than five years of age.  Addressing the news conference on a press briefing held on Saturday at ...

Quetta: Young Doctors Association has announced on Saturday to call for a strike against Provincial Government delays on their demand from last five months. Addressing a news conference here in Quetta Press Club YDA’s President Dr. Hafeez  Mandokhail said, despite promise by Provincial Government to meet our demands are yet to be made. Dr. Hafeez Mandokhail said, “Prior we ended our strike ...

Quetta: UNHCR with partners organised a one-day seminar on youth empowerment to enhance the capacity of Pakistani and Afghan youthsin Balochistan by engaging them in dialogues with the key stakeholders to identify challenges youths are facing and to seek solutions towards self-reliance. Over 100 participants from different districts of Balochistan attended the seminar, over 30 were women. The event was ...

Quetta: Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri has increased budget by 40 percent which was allocated for issuing advertisements to newspapers and periodicals. According to the officials sources, “the Chief Minister has approved the summery dispatched by the Information Department, seeking increase in advertisement budget for newspapers and periodicals.” “A delegation of owners and editors of newspapers had held ...

By: Mariyam Suleman Gwadar: The Pakistan US Alumni Network Chapter Gwadar (PUAN-Gwadar) conducted a youth tech camp in the newly formed Government Girls Degree College Gwadar to Empower Girls through Technology this Wednesday. The main idea behind the day-long extensive workshop was not only to introduce the positive use of technology but to provide an opportunity for the girls to ...

Quetta: Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri has announced to make legislation against illegal hunting of endangered species, rare birds, animals and chopping off of trees. While directing Forest and Wildlife, and Livestock Affairs Departments for acquisition of a suitable place for establishing a zoo in Quetta, he said that government would provide the required funds for the construction ...

By: Sana Samad Child leukemia, Acute Lymphoblast Leukemia (ALL) or simply blood cancer has been one of the deadly disease among children in Pakistan. Though Pakistan is not only country affected from blood cancer, the developing and developed countries are facing the same problems, but the situation in Pakistan is more deteriorated as compare to other countries. The researchers have ...

Karachi: Pakistanis living overseas are a key contributor to the real estate economy in the country but are recent tax changes discouraging these invaluable investors? After four years of acting like a bull, the real estate market in Pakistan appears to be cooling down, according to analysts at Lamudi.pk. Industry experts point to the amendments to Section 68 of the ...

Karachi: The journalists of Balochistan have said that they are passing through very difficult situation, as Quetta Press Club is also at target of terrorists and journalists could also be targeted after attacks on lawyers. “Journalists at local level are mulling over planning to prevent themselves from any dangerous situation. The journalists in Quetta should not gather themselves at one ...