Independent Candidate Faisal Jamil wins PP-259 election

ISLAMABAD, Feb 10 (APP): Independent Candidate, Faisal Jamil has won the Punjab Assembly election from PP-259, Rahim Yar Khan-V by securing 53,018 votes. According to the unofficial result issued by the Returning Officer/ECP, his runner-up was Mian Shafi Muhammad, an independent candidate who bagged 20,824 […]

Author, playwright Fatima Surrayya Bajia remembered

ISLAMABAD, Feb 10 (APP): The death anniversary of famous TV playwright and Urdu novelist Fatima Surayya Bajia was observed on Saturday. Born on September 1, 1930, in Karnatak, India, she migrated to Pakistan with her family soon after partition. The veteran writer had been awarded […]

Independent candidate Dawar Kundi wins NA-43 election

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Feb 10 (APP):Independent candidate Dawar Khan Kundi has won the National Assembly election from NA-43, Tank cum DI Khan by securing 63,556 votes in a tough competition. According to the unofficial result issued by the Returning Officer, his runner-up was Jamiat Ulema […]

WHO makes strategies with little impact

The prestigious scientific journal The Lancet publishes a critical article by researchers Ruth Bonita and Robert Beaglehole (a former senior WHO official) about the World Health Organization’s (WHO) flawed approach to smoking cessation. The researchers say that in order to reduce the harmful effects of […]

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