Rights activists slam abolition of job quota for PWDs
The decision will add to the woes of PWDs that make 15 per cent of the population, says activist News
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Pakistan
Seven doctors, one nurse die of corona in 24 hours
Dr Fatima Sana in her 20s loses the battle against covid-19. Two doctors each die in Lahore and Quetta, one
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Adieu comrade Chaudhry Fateh Muhammad
AWP observes two-day mourning. CPIM, PWA, PMA and others pay homage to the oldest beacon of Left Movement by Herald
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Climate change: The vulnerability of farmers and state policies
A comparative study of farming sectors of China and Pakistan By Samiullah Najeeb Agriculture is the most sensitive
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The Pamirian Languages: Between Past and Future
The case of the Shughni language by Farman Ali The Pamirian languages are spoken by people in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Gilgit-Baltistan
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Global tourist arrivals could fall by 80pc: reports
The pandemic causes a 22% decline in tourist arrivals in Q1, or $80bn loss, says UNWTO reports Herald Report
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Killing the virus and saving the economy
By S. Akbar Zaidi The trade-off being presented of saving lives through a lockdown to eliminate the coronavirus and killing the
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One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years: study
Scorching heat will envelop 185m people in Pakistan; human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed,
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Pakistan’s fight against corona mars its drive to eradicate polio
Pakistan’s long battle to eradicate the crippling poliovirus has been thwarted by militant attacks, radical Islamic clerics, and anti-vaccination propaganda.
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Pakistan’s human rights record worrisome: HRCP
Covid-19 pandemic affecting human rights, weakest segments of society invisible and unheard, notes HRCP in its flagship report High Asia
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‘Are we animals?’: migrants bear brunt of lockdown
Migrant workers in India, Pakistan and Nepal are crushed by poverty as earnings come to an abrupt halt in the
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Pakistan’s younger women riding a digital wave in drive for better jobs
When Kainat Naz joined a women-friendly technology boot camp a year ago, she had no idea it would completely change
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Imran Khan sidelined by military during coronavirus outbreak
Pakistan prime minister’s halting approach has left a gap for the army to step in and orchestrate policy, says a
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Govt asked to withdraw deal with clerics, enforce complete lockdown
Doctors, WHO, and HRCP warn the government against the spike in Coronavirus cases if religious congregations allowed High Asia
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Covid-19 could increase gender inequalities in HKH
There is a need to focus responses on women in Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) regions, write Chanda Gurung Goodrich and Kosar
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