ISLAMABAD, AUG 16 (DNA) – The Australian Government is pleased to support training in improved research techniques to better inform responses to malnutrition in Pakistan, Acting Australian High Commissioner Jurek Juszczyk announced today. Australia has committed AUD 300,000 to build the capacity of the Scaling Up Nutrition Academia and Research (SUNAR) Pakistan Network through a series of workshops on research methods and techniques.  The workshops will aim to assist SUNAR members and young academics to conduct high quality research and to secure grants for innovative research projects in the fieldRead More

MULTAN, AUG 16 (DNA) – Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday let it be known to all hospital administrations in the province that he is the representative of the poor and not theirs. While talking to media after visiting Multan Institute of Kidney Disease, he said that provision of facilities to the patients is a priority. “The aim of constructing modern hospitals worth billions of rupees is not that patients are buying medicines from their own pocket. I will not tolerate that the patients are not being given freeRead More

LALAMUSA, AUG 16 (DNA) – The family of teenager Hamid Chughtai, who was crushed to death by one of the cars in ex-prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Grand Trunk Road (GT) rally, has received Rs2 million as compensation money. According to details, an alleged administrative person and member of provincial assembly (MPA) visited Hamid’s house and gave the money whereas sources told that approximately Rs3 million amount has been granted to the victim’s family so far. It was also learnt that a leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has also given Rs50,000Read More

ISLAMABAD, AUG 16 (DNA) – After the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif filed three review appeals in his petition against the Panama case verdict that resulted in his judicial ouster from the position of power, the legal experts have said 99 percent of them get rejected. Justice (retd) Shaiq Usmani said the same bench will review the verdict which had announced it earlier, and there is no other way once the review appeal gets rejected. Barrister Ali Zaffar remarked that a review appeal requires to notify any significanr legal mistake,Read More

LAHORE, AUG 16 (DNA) – Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has on Wednesday completed its preparations to stage a sit-in on Lahore’s Mall Road despite Lahore High Court’s (LHC) order to not make any arrangements until the final verdict. PAT workers have set the stage near Istanbul Chowk, and special container for party chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri has been transferred to Nasir Bagh along with lights, fans and canopies. The equipment was taken to the sit-in location late night, and heavy contingents of police have also been appointed for security. LetRead More