He said about 100,000 deaths in Pakistan were caused annually by smoking alone...
“Over 4,000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette – 69 of those chemicals are known to cause cancer,” he said and stressed upon the need to share this information with smokers to a maximum level...
KARACHI: An American company on Tuesday offered a new technology for production of various chemicals from the emissions of coal-fired plants in Sindh...
Under ‘coal to chemicals’ technnology, emissions of coal-fired power plants are stored and out of them different chemicals are produced...
KARACHI: Stocks managed to climb on the first trading day of the week with the KSE-100 index gaining 303...
In pharmaceutical, Abbott Pakistan, GlaxoSmithKline and Searle Company closed in red as chief justice directed the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan to freeze prices of medicines in the country...
German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer acquired Monsanto in June for $63 billion...
Last year, a citizen court consisting of a panel of professional judges in The Hague (Netherlands) found Monsanto guilty at a mock trial of human rights violations for harm caused by chemicals...
QUETTA: Authorities have launched an investigation into the anchoring of a ship at the Gadani shipbreaking yard despite Interpol’s warning that the ship contains dangerous chemicals...
The Environment Protection Agency, Balochistan, has sealed the plot of Gadani shipbreaking yard, where the ship has anchored for scrapping, and sent the samples of loaded material to three private laboratories in Karachi...
QUETTA: A two-member team headed by Technical Director of the Balochistan’s Environment Protection Department Mohammad Khan Utimankhail on Sunday examined the ship which reached the ship-breaking yard at Gadani despite a warning from Interpol that it contained dangerous chemicals...
The team collected samples of the chemicals from the ship for sending them to the government laboratories for tests...
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has said that without a ‘new Karachi’ it will not be possible to fulfil his dream of creating a new Pakistan...
Addressing an election rally here on Sunday, he appealed to the people of Karachi to lay the foundation of a new Pakistan by electing PTI candidate Imran Ismail from the NA-246 constituency...
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has said that after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa his party has gained enough ground in Punjab enabling them to form a government in the Centre, however, his dream of a new Pakistan cannot be materialised nor any meaningful change is possible in the country without Karachi...
The PTI chief’s second day, which was the last day of his two-day whirlwind tour of Karachi, had a very busy...
KARACHI: A majority of Karachi drivers would face a big challenge while bringing their vehicles on roads as the traffic police could arrest and jail them for up to a month for not having their driving licences from Monday (today)...
2 million people in the metropolis have driving licences; whereas the total number of registered vehicles in Karachi is 3...
KARACHI: Drivers in Karachi caught on roads without a driving licence would only be challaned and ticketed as per the existing law, rules and regulations, according to a statement made by a spokesperson of Sindh police on Wednesday...
Read: Karachi traffic police may jail drivers without licence from todaySindh Police Inspector General (IG) Ghulam Hyder Jamali presided over a high-level meeting at the Central Police Office called on...
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that his government is paying special attention to the development of Karachi but this uplift will hardly make any difference without meeting the energy demand of the city...
”He said this while presiding over a meeting to review the overall KE power generation capacity and its future endeavours to make Karachi once again the city of lights, and to allow trade to flourish and...
KARACHI: A power breakdown hit more than half the city on Friday morning after light showers were reported in different parts of the metropolis...
Karachi residents took to social media to enquire about the breakdown, with some claiming that parts of Gulshan, Gulistan-i-Johar, Bahadurabad, KDA, FB Area were among those affected...
The Sindh High Court on Wednesday, while hearing a petition from three prisoners who allegedly have not been released despite serving their sentences, admonished officers in-charge of the Karachi Central Jail (KCJ) for not being more sensitive towards the rights of prisoners...
""How can you hold someone in jail for over 20 years without any records of their crime," Justice Iqbal Kalhoro retorted...
KARACHI: If claims made in a report submitted by the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) in the Supreme Court on Saturday are correct, construction in Bahria Town Karachi (BTK) is taking place in brazen violation of building rules and regulations...
They come a little over a month after the Supreme Court judgement on May 4 that found massive illegalities in the process of acquiring land for Bahria Town Karachi (BTK)...
More than half of Karachi plunged into darkness on Friday night as a high transmission line tripped and affected the power supply in the metropolis...
Sources within the Karachi Electric (KE) told Dawn that Saddar, Federal B Area, Liaquatabad, Defence Housing Authority (DHA) were among the affected areas...