Tag: KP
No Beds As Patients Flood KP Hospitals
Jun 13, 2020: Despite 2,000 new cases being wheeled into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s hospitals on a daily basis, there are hardly any beds available for them. In the Lady Reading Hospital only 105 dedicated beds and 25 ventilators are available ...
Ajmal Wazir: KP Demands Finances For Newly Merged Districts
Jun 10, 2020: Ajmal Wazir pays tribute to all the frontline workers of KP. In the latest meeting of the National economic council, Cheif Minister KP Mahmood Khan demanded the promised 3% share of NFC by Sartaj Aziz committee for newly merged ...
KP hospitals forced to turn away patients due to lack of facilities
Jun 5, 2020: In addition to the surge in COVID-19 cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, hospitals in the province are now struggling to tend to an increasing number of patients due to an acute shortage of necessary equipment, space, and medicines. As a ...
Sudden Drop In Covid Testing In Some KP Areas
A major chunk of people from Malakand and Hazara, with symptoms similar to coronavirus, has been avoiding visiting hospitals for COVID-19 testing out of fear, despite there being a rise in cases of the deadly virus in the region. Since after ...
Are The Taliban Back In Former Tribal Areas?
A new wave of terrorism has hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and the newly merged tribal districts amid the coronavirus outbreak. Five people including two traffic policemen were injured in an explosion on Ashraf Road in ...
Rights Watch | 18th May 2020
Minor Boy Killed After “Sexual Assault’: A 10-year old boy in Lahore was strangled to death after an alleged sexual assault. The boy went to a nearby store for shopping with his cousin. The store was closed so the cousin ...
Tribal Students Urge KP Govt. To Restore Internet
Mass Communication student Sayed Muhammad, from the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) had filed a petition at the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the suspension and unavailability of the internet in the ...
Arif Wazir’s Murder & Beyond
It may sound strange to some people that the boldest & sharpest opposition to the unannounced hybrid martial law imposed on the country in the last few years has originated from a comparatively backward area, without a long history ...
As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Medics Also Fall Prey
As Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s COVID-19 cases bloat to worrying statistics, an increasing number of doctors and other healthcare workers such as nurses and paramedics are also contracting the potentially deadly virus ...
Rights Watch | 28th April 2020
Minor Tortured To Death In Karachi: The body of a 14 year old boy bearing torture marks was discovered in a ditch by residents of Taiser town in Karachi. The body was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post-mortem examination ...
