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ISLAMABAD: On International Heart Day, health advocates on Thursday stressed the need to tackle the critical public health issue of unregulated trans-fats in a wide range of dietary sources that affect the heart health of millions of…

RAWALPINDI: A team of lawyers representing former prime minister Imran Khan met him on Thursday for the first time after he was shifted to the Adiala jail from the district jail of Attock. Talking to media outside the Adiala jail after…

ISLAMABAD: Without ensuring freedom of the press and freedom of expression, democracy can never flourish and neither rights ofvthe citizens can be guaranteed.  So it is imperative to strengthen laws and implement them to ensure freedom of…

ISLAMABAD: A three-member bench on Thursday took up the review petitions against its judgement in the 2017 Faizabad sit-in case. The dharna was staged by  Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) against the then federal government of the PML-N.…

ISLAMABAD: A senior officer from the Minister of Overseas Pakistanis told a meeting of lawmakers that a large number of beggars were moving abroad from Pakistan with the help of human smugglers. Secretary of the ministry Zulfiqar Haider…

NEW YORK: UN Secretary General António Guterres said how the world responds now to Pakistan’s struggles to cope with the  impact of climate induced floods is a litmus test. Speaking at the UN headquarters in New York, he said Pakistan…

ISLAMABAD: Legitimization of heated tobacco products (HTPs) through a Statutory Regulatory Order (SRO) by the previous government was premature and could compromise public health. This was stated by health advocates here on Wednesday. In…

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan today started releasing the lists of constituencies for both provincial and national assemblies. The announcement of the delimitation process is in line with the commission's plan to hold the…

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to send back over one million Afghan nations living in Pakistan illegally. This decision was taken at a meeting of the federal cabinet recently in which a plan was also shared with the…

KASHMORE: Five children, two women and two men lost their lives when a shell of a rocket launcher went off in a house in Mehwalshah village of tehsil Kandhkot in the district if Kashmore, Sindh, on Wednesday. Local police confirmed the…