ISLAMABAD - Smog has soared to alarming level in Lahore today (Thursday) posing threat to public health thus forcing authorities to close the schools. Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, late on Wednesday night, announced the closure of all public and private schools in provincial capital ...

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah says provision of clean drinking water and sewerage system accorss the province is top most priority of the government. Chairing a high level meeting on Public Health Engineering in Karachi on Saturday, he said without treatment, drainage water will not be ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan said no system in the world can work without punishment and reward. Addressing an Iftar dinner and fund raising ceremony at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital in Lahore on Saturday, he said unless government hospitals are improved people cannot avail better healthcare ...

Provincial Minister for Public Health Engineering, Haji Noor Muhammad Dumar, has said that incumbent government would ensure provision of safe drinking water to the citizens of Quetta city. He said this while addressing a function regarding water supply connections to three hundred houses in Nava ...

ISLAMABAD: Balochistan Government is taking concrete measures for provision of clean drinking water to the masses especially residing in remote areas of the province. Chief Engineer Provincial Public Health Engineering Department told Radio Pakistan in Quetta on Sunday that three point eight ...

ISLAMABAD: Government of Balochistan is endeavouring to provide clean drinking water facilities to the residents of far flung areas of the province. Provincial Secretary Public Health Engineering Department told Radio Pakistan Quetta during a conversation today that under this objective, ...

ISLAMABAD:The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has prepared a draft of sanitation policy for preservation of hygienic conditions in the province. A spokesman of Public Health Engineering department told our Peshawar Correspondent that in the draft policy, thirty percent funds of the local government ...

NEW YORK:  More than 57 percent of children in the United States will be obese by age 35 if current trends in weight gain and poor eating habits continue, researchers warned Wednesday.The risk of obesity is high even among children whose present weight is normal, said the report in the New England ...

UNITED NATIONS: An alarming trend in the cultivation and production of opium in Afghanistan reveals an 87 per cent production increase compared to 2016, the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) said in its Afghanistan Opium Survey 2017."It is high time for the international community and ...

Washington: President Donald Trump is poised to meet with top advisers and officially declare the opioid crisis in the United States a "national emergency," he said on Wednesday."We're going to have a big meeting on opioids tomorrow," Trump told reporters at the White House."We're going to be doing ...