New Commitments, Research, and Youth Take Center Stage at 2022 International Conference on Family Planning
By: Asim Nawaz/Editor
PATTAYA, Thailand: Ten years after the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, the 2022 International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) celebrated the fact that tens of millions...
Tobacco Health Levy can bring billions to national exchequer; Experts
BY: ASIM NAWAZ/EDITOR
ISLAMABAD: The economic loss significantly outpaced the tobacco industry's revenue and the...
Gender-based violence in Pakistan
By: Mahi Ali
Being transgender is not easy in Pakistan. There are a number of...
The United States Launches Initiative to Enhance U.S.-Pakistan Bilateral Trade
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ISLAMABAD: In honor of Global Entrepreneurship Week, U.S. Ambassador Donald Blome, joined by...
Pakistan, EU resume talks
By: Asem Mustafa Awan
Pakistan and the European Union have decided to resume talks on...
Doll with tear
By: Asem Mustafa Awan
The doll has a tear and the two stand on top of the rubble that was home but a few days...
Seeing is believing; picture tells it all
By: Our Special Correspondent
There is no amount of words which can describe the pain and agony in penning down the day to day ordeal...
‘One’s trash is another’s treasure’
By: Asem Mustafa Awan
Leh Nullah a winding stream, which is filled with waste and a stench that can be detected from far a distance,...
Shanty towns and their fate stays the same
By: Asem Mustafa Awan
These all small shanty towns which pop up at open space wherever it is convenient. Hosting people who live on day...
No rest for the weary
By: Asem Mustafa Awan
Old and feeble and have little and in most cases no source of income. Sitting on the roads with poor eyesight...
Water shortage: Missing link found abandoned
By: Asem Mustafa Awan
They are searching in rubble for something and they have struck gold, the discarded and abandoned cemented pipe has found its...
Carers who can save animal lives in zoos
By: Asem Mustafa Awan
ISLAMABAD: They live a life of a bird roaming from one place to another but what they have in abundance is...
Homeless died grinning leaving friends shattered
By: Asem Mustafa Awan
He is dead but has a smile on his face portraying peace that he is among friends and is cared for.
It...
Man’s best friend is no more a friend
By: Asem Mustafa
They are considered man’s best friend but the four legged friend in ‘land of the pure’ Pakistan faces life threat from humans...
Rooster pair comforts Receding waters flushes fortunes in sea
By: Asem Mustafa
They have past their prime; they are old, weak and have survived many years as their utility in meat is also not...
Picture tells it all the fear and the fearless
By: Asem Mustafa
Smile has no borders and it can be at any time. The trash picking woman smile for the photo on the donkey...
Braving a life threat to seek knowledge
This is a common site and many of us working scribes have faced and braved the same dangers to attain academic degrees.
The few lucky...
