Two paths from here on
The Peshawar High Court’s decision to restore to the PTI its election symbol of bat has cast a spell of shock upon the entire government machinery as also the ranks…
With fear lurking, eyes denuded of sight
It was Shakespeare who said in ‘The Tempest’: “Those are pearls that were his eyes”. So powerful was the impact of the line that T S Eliot repeated in ‘The…
PMDC tells medical colleges to set up five primary healthcare centres in their vicinity
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has directed all the private and public medical and dental colleges across the country to establish primary healthcare (PHC) centres, under which every…
AI summit a start but global agreement a distant hope
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak championed a series of landmark agreements after hosting the first artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit but a global plan for overseeing the technology remains a…
Test for medical, dental colleges to be re-conducted on Nov 19
Medical and Dental Colleges Admission Test (MDCAT) will be held afresh on November 19 by Khyber Medical University in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Health Secretary Mahmood Aslam Wazir told Dawn that a…
Strengthening GPs for UHC
GENERAL practitioners or family physicians are a great resource in any healthcare system. They are mostly the first point of contact. They understand people, their health and their lives as…
Exploring careers
May 4 – Thursday – turned into a most memorable day in my life as one of my big dreams came true in the form of Pakistan’s largest job fair…
The 22nd and 23rd amendments
In the third year of its rule in 2016, the PML-N government decided to further streamline the procedure for the appointment, qualifications and other prerequisites for the chief election commissioner…
Silencing Kashmiri media
The recent arrest of Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj has sparked widespread concern about the state of press freedom and journalist safety in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir. Mehraj is the third…
Modi’s forever war
India’s tax authorities raided the BBC’s offices in Mumbai and New Delhi last week. This incident may have forced the world to reluctantly wake up to Narendra Modi’s strong dislike…
