ISLAMABAD: Under Universal Service Fund (USF) programmes, more than 15,000 remote villages and 28 million people have been provide broadband services during the last four years. An official of the IT ministry said, “last 4 years have been busiest with respect to USFs outreach. We have only contracted 79 new projects worth $266 million to […]
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7288 villages electrified in Balochistan in last 6 years
ISLAMABAD: Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO) has electrified 7288 villages in various districts of Balochistan during last six years. According to official sources, they told that some 1317 villages were electrified in 2016-17, 2459 in 2017-19, 1064 in 2018-19, 819 in 2019-20, 1023 in 2020-21 and 606 in 2021-22. The government was planning to carry […]
In South Sudan, illness is as deadly as war
By the time he was brought into the remote clinic in northeastern South Sudan, two-year-old Nyachoat was already convulsing from the malaria attacking his brain. After being given medication he lies fast asleep, naked and feverish, attached to a drip, his anxious mother sitting on the bed next to him. Nyachoat could be saved, but […]