COVID-19 crisis: ABM, BSF prove godsend for stranded students
The two organisations arrange buses, to send 500 students to Gilgit-Baltistan; another 500 students will depart on March 18
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Health
Photos: life in the coronavirus era
Expatriate returning from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon arrive to be re-tested at a Kuwaiti health ministry containment and screening zone
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Tectonic effect of COVID-19 on tourism, hospitality sectors
Herald Report The worldwide spread of coronavirus that has devastated the global economy has also hit hard the tourism
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Tajik mothers donate organs to save each other’s daughters
www.rferl.org/b76c7cea-7f1c-4de8-964e-9d88ba149ad8 High Asia Herald Report Two Tajik girls were battling illnesses that threatened their lives unless they could undergo
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To understand the Wuhan coronavirus, look to the epidemic triangle
We must determine whether the outbreak will turn into a global epidemic by Dan Werb Five cases of the mysterious Wuhan
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The shadow of the coronavirus on Pakistan
With burgeoning trade and a large movement of people enabled by the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the coronavirus is having an impact on Pakistan even though no case has been confirmed yet
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Coronavirus sets off scare through Gilgit-Baltistan
Over 500 students stuck in Wuhan plead for evacuation; Gilgit asks Islamabad to delay reopening of Sost border HAH Report
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Japanese doctor among 6 killed in Afghan gun attack
Dr Tetsu Nakamora was widely respected for his humanitarian work, who devoted his career to improving the lives of the poor Afghans
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Chitral Burn, Trauma Centre remains non-operational
Gul Hamad Farooqi Last month eight members of a poor workers’ family – two brothers, their mother, wives, and three
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Mental health: a major public health challenge
Every year about 800,000 people take their own life — 11.4 people per 100,000 population and in Pakistan, it is
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GB’s young doctors to launch protest drive from Sept 6
YDA, PMA observe August 26 as ‘black day’ against the attitude of health authorities, give 10-day ultimatum to government to
Read MoreFood poisoning kills 14 prison inmates in Tajikistan
Tajikistan has opened a criminal investigation after 14 prison inmates died of food poisoning while being transferred from Tajikistan’s
Read More‘Bech de!’
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Many readers will recognise that the title of this column is borrowed from an online marketplace that
Read MoreCut in HEC budget, privatization of hospitals opposed
Professional bodies of teachers, students, workers, doctors and political activists reject IMF’s bailout prescriptions, cut in PSDP Herald Report Academics,
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What does Pakistan’s typhoid outbreak tell us?
Anayat Baig tells a tragic story of neglect, inequality and superbugs Pakistan is facing world’s largest extremely drug resistant (XDR)
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