Federal Ministry of Education urged United Nations Development Programme to extend its support to overcome the challenges of education sector in Pakistan. This was expressed by Shafqat Mahmood, Federal Minister for Education & Professional Training during a Meeting with Ignacio Artaza, Representative of UNDP in Pakistan. The meeting was also attended by Arshad Mirza, Federal [...]
Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed education department to update curriculum and textbooks to align with United Nations Sustainable Goals 2030 for which special focus would be given for improvement of science, mathematics and English language books. This he said that while presiding over a meeting to improve school education system here [...]
Sindh Caretaker Minister for Health, Education, Population Welfare and Women Development, Dr. Saadia Virk Rizvi has stressed the need for equal standards in all public sector hospitals of the province. She was presiding over the meeting of Sindh Health Commission to review the performance at her office in Karachi. The meeting was attended by Dr. [...]
Former Senator Razina Alam Khan and Chairperson National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), Razina Alam Khan has said that to accomplish the target of 90 percent literacy rate set for the vision 2025, the government should run existing formal education system side by side with non-formal education across the country. She said this while chairing the third [...]
Around 10,000 women and girls to receive vocational training and quality education over the next 3 years Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced the launch of its latest Gender Equality initiative under the P&G program at a formal ceremony held in Karachi, reinforcing its commitment to contribute towards the economic empowerment of women in the country. Through [...]
Experts at a Pre-conference Workshop on 6th International Conference on Endorsing Health Science Research (ICEHCR 2018) said the core reason for drug addiction in Pakistan was that people don’t actually think it is inappropriate. This is the biggest mistake that people make today by underestimating the effects and consequences of narcotics or drugs. The speakers [...]
The Sindh Non-Formal Education (NFE) Policy was formally launched by Minister for Education and Literacy Jam Mahtab Hussain Dahar at a ceremony held recently in Karachi. The event was attended by School Education and Literacy Department (SELD) Secretary, Dr. Iqbal Durrani, USAID Deputy Mission Director John Smith-Sreen and representatives of other development agencies like JICA [...]
Kiran Sitara Program, IRD and Indus Health Network in collaboration with the Department of Education, Government of Sindh organized a She Leads Conference recently in Karachi. She Leads Conference aimed to highlight and celebrate the success of young students participated in the Kiran Sitara program. This initiative is an Adolescent Health and Leadership program which mobilizes young [...]
Inamullah Khan, Director, Field Operations & LMIS; Dr. Khurram Shahzad, Director IT System, M&E and Training; and Ms. Ambreen Khan, vLMIS Officer of John Snow Inc.; USAID | DELIVER PROJECT The Second Governance Forum 2015 was held on Thursday, December 31, 2015, at the Quaid-i-Azam Auditorium, Faisal Mosque Campus of the International Islamic University, Islamabad. [...]
An Iranian delegation comprising senior officials from Ministry of Health and Medical Education called on the Minister for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar here today to discuss Pak-Iran cooperation in the field of health. The delegation was led by Dr. Mohsin Asadi Lari, Special Assistant for International Affairs to the Health Minister. Other delegates [...]
Speakers at the meeting of Shura Hamdard Karachi chapter urged the government to make arrangements for imparting education in mother tongs and national language to the children and take on board the teachers while drafting new education policy.The meeting was held on the theme ‘Outdated and class-based education system is an impediment in progress of [...]
By Dr. Marriam Gul Thaheem Health care is one of the basic needs of human like air water and food. Everyone has right to attain the highest standard of physical and mental health, without any social and gender discrimination. Health care system clearly encompasses the preventive health care system for example health immunization. Public health care [...]
Teach For Pakistan, an initiative of the AMAN Foundation, hosted its annual reception at Avari Hotel in Karachi today. The ceremony was held to bring together multiple stakeholders to help enable quality education for students across Pakistan. Founded in 2010 with the support of AMAN Foundation, Teach For Pakistan is a nationwide movement of outstanding [...]
Experts at a Seminar revealed that in Pakistan, only 37 percent of infants under six months old are breastfed and despite the practice being strongly advised by global bodies including the WHO and UNICEF, only 28.8 percent of newborns are breastfed within the first hour of birth. They were addressing a Seminar organized by the [...]
Globally, toxically germ-infested unsafe drinking water cause different form of disability among children which are caused by teratogens. The excessive use of medication and consuming polluted water results in the development of abnormal cell tissue in unborn as well as newly born babies particularly during foetal growth, yielding a multiplex of physicochemical defects in the [...]
