RAWALPINDI – Six people were killed and more than a dozen injured after Afghan Border Forces opened unprovoked and indiscriminate fire of heavy weapons onto civilian population in Chaman area of Balochistan. ISPR, in a statement, said the Afghan forces used artillery and heavy weapons to target ...

The Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal link Sultan said on Saturday that the restrictions of COVID-19 will not be eased until the whole population of the country gets vaccinated. The SAPM in a video message said that coronavirus restrictions will be eased once ...

ISLAMABAD – Registration for vaccination against Covid-19 for all those aged above 19 will begin from tomorrow, NCOC head and Federal Planning Minister Asad Umar announced Wednesday. Taking it to his official handle, the head of the country’s top monitoring body said Pakistan has decided to ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's population has surged to 207.68 million while population growth has recorded at 2.40 percent from 1998 to 2017, report of sixth Population and Housing Census-2017 revealed Tuesday. The Council of Common Interests (CCI) in its meeting held on April 12, 2021, approved the ...

ISLAMABAD – The population of Pakistan will reach 242 million by 2025 and the current estimated population of Pakistan is 212 million, the United Nations says, making it the fifth most populous country in the world. It is expected that the cities of Pakistan will accommodate 250 million people ...

Indian army troops resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation in Baroh and Khanjar Sectors along Line of control deliberately targeting a civil population with Mortars and automatics. According to the Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR), due to Indian army indiscriminate fire, two elderly ...

ISLAMABAD-:UN Secretary-general Antonio Guterres said that the coronavirus pandemic was deepening the existing inequalities and vulnerabilities, particularly for women and girls”, and called for corrective measures.In his message for World Population Day, which is being celebrated on Sunday, ...

ISLAMABAD-President Dr Arif Alvi Saturday advised the religious scholars and media to play their role to promote breastfeeding as the most natural practice to prevent unwanted pregnancies and thus protecting mothers from malnutrition and the country from economic stress.“Rampant increase in ...

ISLAMABAD-World Population Day is being observed on Saturday all over the world including Pakistan to raise awareness of global population issues. The day aims to increase people's awareness on various population issues such as the importance of family planning, gender equality, poverty, maternal ...

Geneva - The new coronavirus may never go away and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday. As some countries around the world begin gradually easing lockdown restrictions imposed in a bid to stop the novel coronavirus from ...