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Hunger, not Coronavirus will kill us: say slum dwellers
Jul 06, 2020: The health services of the capital announced contact-tracing and testing for the coronavirus in the abandoned slums of Islamabad under the Trace, Test and Quarantine (TTQ) policy on 29th of June but for slum dwellers, the novel ...
Balochistan govt spends only Rs90 per person on health: YDA
Jul 04, 2020: In Balochistan, there has been an increase of about 32 percent in the health budget as compared to last year’s spending on health. This fiscal year 2020-21, the Balochistan government has allocated over Rs31billion for the health ...
Peshawar: Christian man allegedly killed over his desire to buy house in Muslim locality
Jul 03, 2020: Since June 29th, life has fallen apart for Peshawar’s Christian woman Shaheen Joesph. She has been widowed at just 32 years after her husband Nadeem Joesph succumbed to bullet wounds after battling life and death for ...
VPN registration means stifling free speech and access to information
Jul 02, 2020: With populist leaders and their online troll armies seeking to spread disinformation, and authorities cutting off access to online information, global internet freedom seems to be going downhill. Like many other countries, even ...
Hindu community stands firm in face of fatwa and petition against temple
Jul 2, 2020: Just a few days after the groundbreaking ceremony of the capital’s first Hindu temple being constructed, a fatwa was issued by Jamia Ashrafia declaring the act ‘un-Islamic and illegal’. The fatwa came from Mufti Ziauddin of Jamia ...
COVID Watch | 06th June 2020
Corona Related Deaths: Data shows that 3,595 people were buried in 34 graveyards controlled by KMC in Karachi during June 2020 as compared to 2,375 burials in June 2019. In Lahore, 3,723 burials were recorded during June 2020 while ...
Rights Watch | 06th June 2020
Honour Killing: One Tanveer Gadhi was shot dead in the name of honour by Gulraiz Gadhi and 8 other men in Chak 271/GB of Rajana District Toba Tek Singh. Gulriaz was pardoned by his family for killing his sister for allegedly having an affair ...
