Two Pakistani employees of a Turkish waste management company were killed and one injured in Rawalpindi in an incident of suspected target killing early on Saturday, police officials told DawnNews...
Station house officer (SHO) Sadiqabad told DawnNews that the deceased had received multiple bullet wounds and had been shifted to a nearby hospital for a post-mortem examination...
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Secretary for Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Raja Javed Ikhlas on Friday said solid waste was one of the reasons for the spread of dengue...
Presiding over a meeting on dengue on Friday, he said that the issue of solid waste management in the capital city could not be resolved even after about a decade...
Two employees of a Turkish waste management firm Albayrack were shot at in the wee hours of Friday near Data Ganj Baksh Road in Rawalpindi, police said...
Karamat's body was shifted to District Headquarters Hospital for an autopsy and was later taken to his family home Sheikhupura...
THE Rawalpindi Waste Management Corporation (RWMC) was launched a couple of months ago...
PESHAWAR: The country manager of the United Nations- Habitat said on Tuesday that the UN body intended to set up an integrated resource recovery centre for solid waste management in Peshawar...
Expressing interest in sanitation of the Peshawar city, Bella Evidente said the resource centre would include solid waste management, behavioural change, community mobilisation, composite production and recycling of solid waste...
ISLAMABAD: The lack of waste management in the federal capital’s rural areas has forced citizens to dispose of their garbage along the sides of major roads and in open areas...
Another citizen said the increasing population of the capital’s rural areas had made the lack of solid waste collection a significant problem...
PESHAWAR: A Supreme Court of Pakistan bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar here on Wednesday directed the future provincial government coming into power after the 2018 general elections to adhere to a comprehensive plan recently prepared by experts for management of industrial affluent in the province...
He said that according to the plan, several important steps would be taken including setting up industrial waste...
KARACHI: Massive encroachments over all major drains, including their outfall points, and the absence of a system to manage solid waste that finds its way into these channels continue to be Karachi’s Achilles’ heel, putting the city at the risk of flooding in monsoon, experts warned on Saturday...
According to him, Karachi’s main civic problem remains a lack of waste management and heavy encroachments over all major drains...
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh government is designing a Solid Waste Emergency and Efficiency Project (SWEEP), and seeking World Bank’s assistance as an ‘emergency operation’ to address flooding in Karachi due to overflow of sewerage and waste, and to improve the provision of solid waste management services in the city...
It is officially learnt that the World Bank has started appraising the ‘Karachi solid waste emergency and efficiency...
ISLAMABAD: As the Sindh government urgently needs to mitigate the impact of flooding, the World Bank has designed the Karachi Solid Waste Emergency and Efficiency Project (SWEEP) with a proposed allocation of $100 million...
In view of widespread flooding and public health crisis after the rainy season last year and subsequent deterioration of solid waste management network this year, the bank approved the use of emergency procedures...
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the National Hazardous Waste Management Policy 2022 with consensus which will be passed on to provinces and implemented at the federal level for international compliance...
At a briefing, Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman said: “Before Pakistan becomes a dumping ground for our own and the world’s hazardous waste, the government has gone ahead and made a detailed...
CHITRAL: Well before his arrival and assuming charge of office, the newly posted deputy commissioner Irshad Sodhar suspended the deputy medical superintendent of DHQ hospital on Sunday for dumping the hospital’s solid waste into Chitral River and using ambulance meant for transporting patients...
On the direction of Chitral DC, the MS of the hospital issued suspension order of DMS Dr Israruddin, in charge of sanitation Hujoom Khan and...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has warned some 60 big and small hospitals in the federal capital that their waste disposal methods violate environmental laws...
They were issued notices after a survey gathered information on how the city’s public and private health facilities were disposing their infectious hospital waste...
NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan leg-spinner Abdul Qadir have said that hiring a coach for the national cricket team is a waste of money, Indian media reported on Sunday...
“Having a coach is a waste of money and nothing else...
From the once pristine rivers of Hindu Kush to the slums of Islamabad, Pakistan is being smothered by plastic due to a lack of public awareness, government inertia, and poor waste management...
Plastic bags are a large part of the problem — the nation uses some 55 billion of them each year, according to the Pakistan Plastic Manufacturers Association...