Pakistan’s Maternal and Child Health indicators remain extremely poor every year as 25,000 to 30,000 women die from complications of pregnancy and child birth. Millions more suffer ill health and disability. One million children die before the age of 5 while 16,000 die in the first month after birth. Pakistan is fully committed to the [...]

GENEVA — Millions of people with common, but untreated, mental, neurological and substance use disorders can now benefit from new simplified diagnosis and treatment guidelines released today by WHO. The guidelines are designed to facilitate the management of depression, alcohol use disorders, epilepsy and other common mental disorders in the primary health-care The Intervention guide [...]

Islamabad: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) is pleased to announce to its corporate and enterprise customers the most flexible connectivity solution with multiple applications in the form of Global IP Connect service. Based on internet protocol, this service allows Pakistani companies whose offices are located across the globe to connect and transfer data in a [...]

Three schools from across the UK have won the exclusive opportunity to visit the London 2012 Olympic Park after submitting photographs demonstrating their involvement in International Inspiration, London 2012’s international legacy programme. The winning schools, Vandyke Upper School in Leighton Buzzard, Burleigh Community College in Loughborough and Sir Frederic Osborn School in Welwyn Garden City [...]

(New York) – The Ethiopian government’s release on October 6, 2010, of detained opposition leader Birtukan Midekssa should pave the way for freeing dozens of other political prisoners in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Birtukan, the leader of the Unity for Democracy and Justice Party, had been detained since December 2008 following an [...]

(Geneva) – Egypt, the new chair of the UN refugee agency’s governing body, should immediately end its policy of shooting foreign nationals trying to cross from Egypt into Israel, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the Egyptian authorities. Egypt should also stop impeding the refugee agency’s access to foreign nationals detained in [...]

Unilever, the global leader in consumer products, has committed € 1 million (US$ 1.28 million, Rs. 113 million) towards flood relief and rehabilitation in Pakistan. This will be channelled through five leading NGOs – World Food Programme, Unicef, Oxfam, Save the Children Fund and Population Services International – which are actively engaged in relief activities [...]

Islamabad, Pakistan; February 22, 2010: General Electric signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Pakistan today to help promote the modernization of Pakistan’s infrastructure and economy. The agreement focuses on the development of Pakistan’s energy resources to meet projected demand of 54,000 megawatts by the year 2020. “General Electric is helping build [...]