By Wisal Mashal

  PESHAWAR: The Cupping or Hijama treatment centres are on the rise in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and particularly in Peshawar after it was for the first time used by the players in Rio Olympics as youngsters were more interested to take this easy treatment without any precautionary measures. There were around four centres of Hijama in […]

PESHAWAR: Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH), Medical Teaching Institution (MTI) has started free 24 hour out-door patient department (OPD) as well as start the first pediatric laparoscope facility while spine surgery was also started in the hospital. Addressing the inauguration ceremony at KTH on Friday Senior Minister for Health Shahram Khan Tarkai said that the Khyber […]

PESHAWAR: Minister of State and Chairperson Benzir Income Support Program (BISP) Marvi Memon has said the change comes when and where work has been done and no change was observed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during last three years. She was addressing Gold Medals distribution ceremony held at Khyber Medical Collage Peshawaron on Tuesday. She appreciated the […]

PESHAWAR: A one-day exhibition of art, culture and crafts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, under the title of “Made in Pakhtunkhwa” will be held on August 31, at a local hotel in Islamabad. The event has been organised by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Commerce & Industries (KPCCI), Peshawar. This was said by KPCCI President Zulfiqar Ali […]

PESHAWAR: 50-year-old Hikmat Shah hailing from Charsadda district was lying on the Bed at the Irnum Hospital Peshawar and looking around as his eyes color became red just of the pain that he feels and tears were rolling on his cheeks. “I was using snuff and tobacco which, affected my mouth and teeth as I […]

PESHAWAR: At least 20 persons, including 12 from Balochistan province alone have died country-wide because of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) this year while five suspected patients were registered at Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar. As the days to Eidul-Azha come close, the momentum is picking up for people to visit cattle markets, in search of sacrificial […]

  PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly failed to pass Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2014 after passage of two years while the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey states that the ratio of child marriages in the province is as high as 74 per cent. The report said that seven per cent of Pakistan population around […]

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday passed a resolution unanimously to shift Pakistan Tobacco Board to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The resolution was presented by member Provincial Assembly Jahandad Khan saying that Tobacco crop is a rich crop of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but because of the Tobacco Board Pakistan which is lying with federal government most […]

PESHAWAR: The recent border management initiatives taken by Pakistani authorities at Pak-Afghan border at Torkham have increased the miseries of Afghan nationals seeking entry to Pakistan for medical treatment. Janan Khan, 40, hailing from Afghanistan, while holding bags full of medicines outside a private hospital in Hayatabad locality said, “My wife is under treatment here […]