Ramazan Bazaar. PHOTO:EXPRESS LAHORE: More than halfway through the month of Ramzan, the widely publicized market inspection campaign in Lahore appears to have brought little significant relief to consumers, with prices in many markets continuing to deviate sharply from government-notified rates. Despite regular visits from officials – including the deputy commissioner, deputy commissioners and special […]
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CM approves ‘no-fault’ compensation system, digital monitoring to protect accident victims Chief Minister of Sindh, Murad Ali Shah. PHOTO: Radio Pakistan KARACHI: Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has approved making third-party auto insurance mandatory for all vehicles in the province, describing the initiative as a major step towards protecting road accident victims and strengthening road
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President of Awami Tehreek, lawyer Vasand Thari. Photo: Courtesy — Facebook HYDERABAD: Awami Tehreek Chairman’s lawyer Vasand Thari on Sunday drew parallels between China’s historic opium wars and what he described as the widespread proliferation of narcotics in Sindh, saying the province is facing a “narcotics war”. Addressing the three-day education and training workshop organized
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With the same unhealthy food served to everyone, patients with nutrition-sensitive diseases Caregivers of patients from outside the city are camping in an open space of the civil hospital due to lack of free shelter. Photo: Jalal Qureshi/Express KARACHI: In many branches of alternative medicine, food is considered a natural remedy. Certain foods are proven
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Supplies of medicines, infant formula and vaccines likely to be affected by ongoing Gulf war KARACHI: The ongoing conflict involving Iran, Israel and the United States has disrupted Pakistani imports of life-saving and essential medicines, raw materials for pharmaceutical production, infant formula and various vaccines due to the suspension of international flights. If the war
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President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Photo: File ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have expressed their commitment to ensuring an enabling environment for women to realize their full potential. In their separate messages on the occasion of International Women’s Day observed on Sunday, the President and Prime
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. Generally dry weather is expected in most parts of the country over the next 24 hours, according to the Met Office. However, partly cloudy conditions are likely in northern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir. Temperatures recorded in major cities on Sunday morning were 14°C in Islamabad and Muzaffarabad; Lahore and Karachi 22°C; Peshawar 18°C; Quetta
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Beijing envoy goes to Kabul; Yue Xiaoyong talks to FM Muttaqi; China supports peaceful engagement China’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Yue Xiaoyong, speaks in Kabul with the Taliban government’s acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi. Photo: @taahir_khan/X ISLAMABAD: China has intervened diplomatically to help defuse ongoing tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan, urging both sides to
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. RAWALPINDI: Security forces killed 13 terrorists belonging to Indian proxy Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in a series of five Intelligence-Based Operations (IBO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a press release on Sunday. According to the ISPR, security forces carried out ISIS attacks against Fitna al-Khwarij – a term used
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A huge fire breaks out at an oil depot following an Israeli airstrike in Tehran. Photo: AFP DUBAI: The war between Israel, the United States and Iran intensified on Sunday with new strikes on Iranian oil facilities near Tehran and retaliatory drone and missile attacks in the Gulf, widening a conflict that has shaken regional
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