Mbarara District Health Profile Of Pakistan

District profile: Ruling party faces strong anti-PPP alliance in Dadu

DADU: Like elsewhere in the province, the ruling party faces an exclusively anti-Pakistan Peoples Party alliance in Dadu as well but what makes this alliance of four parties relatively strong is the inclusion of the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) headed by the influential Liaquat Ali Jatoi, while the situation in Jamshoro appears to be business as usual with little opposition against PPP diehard Malik Asad Sikandar and his nominees... ...

District profile: The battle for Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: Rich in history and culture, Hyderabad was the industrial-cum-agriculture district that gave birth to three new districts, formerly its talukas, in 2005...

It has one municipal corporation, a district council, two town committees and one municipal committee...

District profile: Thar Ittehad set to give PPP a tough time

MITHI: Tharpakar district was once ruled by the Arbabs of Khetlari who had long been portraying it as their ‘invincible fort’...

For the local bodies elections on Thursday, there were 1,050 candidates for a total of 370 seats of six town committees — Diplo, Chhachhro, Islamkot, Nagarparkar, Kheeme-Jo-Paar and Chelhar — and 64 union councils until Wednesday, when the Election Commission of Pakistan decided to postpone the polling in...

District profile: Indifferent in Okara

He himself is not taking part in the polls from the platform of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), of which he is the central vice president...

There are hardly any billboards, banners or party flags in a district which has four seats in the National Assembly and eight in the Punjab legislature...

District profile: Arbab family row to liven up Tharparkar contest

The indecisiveness of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on how to best safeguard its interests has turned Tharparkar into a major electoral battlefield...

With 2,400 villages, the district has a population of approximately 1...

District profile: Disgruntled Faisalabad yearns for change

Industrialists as well as workers in Faisalabad have a grudge against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Peoples Party as, according to them, they did nothing to improve their lot while in power...

Faisalabad is the second highest revenue-earning district in the country — thanks to its textiles...

District profile: The situation in Khyber: changing dynamics?

The election campaign in the two National Assembly (NA) constituencies of the Khyber tribal district are vividly distinct in their atmospheres...

In NA-43, the independent, Shahji Gul’s position is overly reliant on his personal struggle of ‘liberating the tribal areas, and getting rid of the Frontier Crimes Regulation,’ while his rival Allama Noorul Haq Qadri of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has claimed that he wants to...

District profile: Party lines blur in Mandi Bahauddin

DESPITE internal rifts and groupings within the local rank and file of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in Mandi Bahauddin district, there will be a tough competition between the candidates of the two parties on as many National Assembly (NA) seats and four Punjab Assembly (PA) seats of the district...

However, most of the PPP’s former lawmakers from the district, including former federal...

District profile: Matiari heating up as polls approach

In the previous elections, the alliance had emerged as a formidable group, prompting Makhdoom Amin Fahim to not take things lying down and run a serious election campaign across the district, even though he himself faced a lesser-known political opponent in Abdul Razaq Memon...

District profile: Winds of change blowing in Attock

The district of Attock in Punjab, was until recently, a hotbed of radical thought and there were several terror attacks in the area...

His son, Jehangir Khanzada, is running for the provincial assembly seat on a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) seat...

District profile: Mirpurkhas has interesting contests to offer

MIRPURKHAS has been a fort of the Pakistan Peoples Party since the country’s first general election in 1970...

The party has won on all the seats in this district save one provincial assembly seat, PS-64 (now PS-47), which the MQM has won three times running since 2002...

Panels to build up health profile of medical students in Punjab

LAHORE: The Punjab government has constituted six-member committees of senior doctors at each public sector medical universities/colleges to prepare data of students for the maintenance of their health profile, including blood group, smoking and drug intake history following the reports of drug abuse at teaching institutions...

Initiative aims at curbing drug abuse in colleges, universitiesThe Punjab specialiased healthcare and...

Toorpakai to raise Pakistan's sports profile through IOC's Women in Sports Commission

Pakistani squash star Maria Toorpakai Wazir, who was announced as a member of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Women in Sports Commission on April 25, has said her appointment will benefit Pakistan...

"I will represent Pakistan in the Olympics arena and will raise my voice for Pakistani sports in the Olympics Committee," she said...

Profile: Justice Gulzar Ahmed — the 27th Chief Justice of Pakistan

Justice Gulzar Ahmed, who was sworn in as the 27th chief justice of Pakistan on December 21, 2019, was born on February 2, 1957, in Karachi...

Justice Ahmed, who was part of the five-judge bench that disqualified former premier Nawaz Sharif in the Panama Papers case, is also a member of the Supreme Judicial Council and the Judicial Commission of Pakistan...

Rules notified to establish district health authorities all over Punjab

LAHORE: After failure of the existing healthcare system, the Punjab government has notified rules for the establishment of district health authorities (DHAs) all over the province under which executive district officers (EDO) of health are being replaced by chief executive officers (CEOs)...

In the proposed health bodies, technocrats are being given a major role to run the administrative system of primary health care facilities,...