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    Extended Programme Of Immunization In Pakistan

  • PM’s health programme to be extended to 23 districts: minister

    MUZAFFARABAD: Minister of State for National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination Saira Afzal Tarrar said on Thursday that the Prime Minister’s National Health Programme (PMNHP) would be gradually extended to 23 districts across the country to help 3...

    “The programme is desi­gned to bring drastic impro­vement in the indoor quality treatment and access to hospitalisation for the poorest and underprivileged people of Pakistan,”...

  • Mobile free food programme extended to more cities

    ISLAMABAD: On the instructions of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the government has expanded its mobile free-food programme and launched it in three more cities to help the poor, especially the labour class, get two square meals and ensure nobody goes to sleep hungry...

    The prime minister had first inaugurated the programme on March 10 to serve free meal boxes twice a day to daily wage workers in Rawalpindi and Islamabad...

  • Cities, climate change and Pakistan’s extended urbanisation

    Pakistan ranks high on the list of countries most threatened by the impending effects of climate change...

    According to a recent report published by the Asian Development Bank, a 6-degree Celsius temperature increase is projected over the Asian landmass whereby countries like Pakistan could experience a significantly hotter climate...

  • FIFA lifts Pakistan’s suspension, Normalisation Committee's mandate extended

    KARACHI: It took nearly 15 months, but Pakistan has finally returned to the international football fold...

    FIFA announced on Thursday that the Pakistan Football Federation’s (PFF) suspension was being lifted after the global football body received confirmation that its appointed Normalisation Committee for the PFF had “regained full control of the PFF’s premises and was in a position to manage its finances...

  • Pakistan seeks FAO help for zero-hunger programme

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is seeking support from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for an effective implementation of the ‘Zero Hunger and Family Farming Programme’ to start school feeding projects in 45 most food insecure districts...

    The programme intends to reach 61 million people across Pakistan, and with a budget of $1...

  • Pakistan's nuclear programme is safe from terrorists: Aizaz

    ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry addressing a seminar on nuclear security on Thursday said Pakistan has urged the United States to shun discriminatory treatment against Islamabad when it comes to nuclear and defence ties...

    Aizaz reiterated the claim that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal was "not against anyone" and is only for self-defence...

  • Pakistan wants India's entire nuclear programme under IAEA safeguards

    Pakistan wants India to bring its entire civilian nuclear programme under the safeguards laid out by the International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA), a press release quoting Director General Disarmament at the Foreign Office Kamran Akhtar said...

    We want an assurance that India's whole three stage nuclear power programme would be under safeguards," Akhtar said, Pakistan will not agree to FMCT until it gets the assurance from...

  • $4m USDA programme boosts Pakistan’s phytosanitary capacity

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ability to comply with international trade rules for increasing agricultural exports has been boosted by a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) supported project for increasing the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) capacity of plant and animal health regulatory officials of the federal and provincial governments...

    USDA has spent over $4 million in a six-year ‘distance learning programme’ which will strengthen the...

  • Pakistan asked to improve immunisation programme

    ISLAMABAD: A delegation from the Technical Advisory Group (TAG), the highest international technical body advising Pakistan on the polio eradication programme, has suggested that the routine immunisation system in the country should be improved to check new polio cases...

    The delegation, headed by TAG Chairman Dr Jean Marc Olive, also advised Pakistan and Afghanistan to work jointly for the eradication of the poliovirus and exchange...

  • ‘Pakistan has no plan to enter IMF programme’

    ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Finance was informed on Tuesday that Pakistan has no plan to enter the IMF programme and the current account deficit would be met through loans and floating of bonds...

    During the briefing, the committee was informed that SBP, Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan and others agencies have no mechanism to control the outflow of reserves...

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