By Wisal Mashal

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly unanimously passed three bills on Conflict of Interest, Universities (amendment) and Galiyat Development Authority on Friday. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Conflict of Interest Bill 2016 was tabled on June 2014 in the provincial Assembly. It advocates that any member of the provincial assembly will not use office for personal use or […]

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government has so far failed to implement the Breastfeeding and Child Nutrition Act 2015 in the province as formula milk available in the open market. This was shared in a program on Breast Feeding Month August 2016 here at Directorate Health Service office Peshawar with the support of UNICEF as this […]

PESHAWAR: The long queues of vehicles on Khyber Road and Charsadda Road besides other areas in the provincial capital have made the life miserable for the Peshawarites. According to data available with Regional Transport Authority (RTA) at least 526 buses, 1,146 mini buses, 644 wagons, and 5,030 Taxis while 21,500 rickshaws ply on roads in […]

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s health facilities across the province lack hepatitis vaccines, a compulsory dose to be given to every child at birth, Daily Times learnt on Thursday. This was revealed at a program in connection with World Hepatitis Day organised by Prime Minister Program for prevention and control of Hepatitis Khyber Pakhtunkhwa here at Health […]

PESHAWAR: As the World Hepatitis Day is being observed today (Thursday), health experts have said that Pakistan is climbing up in ranking with growing number of hepatitis patients. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report, around 400 million people were suffering from hepatitis across the globe while 95%-affected people were unaware that they harboured […]

PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar on ‘End the silence on domestic violence’ have urged the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) to approve the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) domestic violence bill at the earliest. The seminar was organised by the Provincial Commission on the Status for Women (PCSW) with the support of White Ribbon at a local […]

PESHAWAR: Ghulam Ismail, 77, a patient with a hip fracture and admitted in one of the tertiary care hospitals of the city had no other option but to leave the facility for a laboratory test to prepare himself to be operated in the hospital. Lying on a steel stretcher with a pillow supporting the broken […]

PESHAWAR: The CT scan machines at Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar (LRH), the biggest teaching hospital in the province, have been out of order for several days, resulting in multiple problems for patients faced problems, Daily Times learnt on Tuesday. In the LRH emergency outdoor Patient department (OPD), there was only one CT scan machine in […]

PESHAWAR: The parents of Army Public School (APS) students who lost their lives in the December 16, 2014 attack, expressed their satisfaction over the killing of the mastermind of the attack Umar Naray alias Khalifa Umar in a US drone strike in Nangrahar province of Afghanistan. On Wednesday, the Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR) wing […]

PESHAWAR: Floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) killed at least 261 people from March to July this year, a government official said on Wednesday. The Meteorological Department has forecast more rains and warned of floods in Chitral and other areas in the next twenty-four hours. Talking to Daily Times, Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) spokesperson Latif-ur-Rahman […]