Agha Khan Hospital under threat of bomb attack?
By Amar Guriro KARACHI – The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) has reinforced and tightened security measures in an around the hospital premises after receiving “a phone call threatening to blow up a bomb inside the hospital”, Pakistan Today has learnt. “Someone called up the AKUH management, and threatened to blow up a bomb inside the premises. This naturally panicked the hospital administration, who then made special security arrangements in…
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‘Reforestation must to protect Sindh’
80% land in Pakistan is dry and we have only 5% forest cover, so we need reforestation to stop the increasing desertification, says environmentalist By Amar Guriro KARACHI – Due to increasing population and poverty, massive forest cutting is on the rise that has changed the rain pattern, which is causing an increase in desertification and Sindh is the worst affected, disclosed experts on Thursday. Environmentalists, nature conservationists and experts…
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An incomplete verse: Hassan Dars no more
By Amar Guriro Zindagi Ihri Bhali Tikk’a Tey Ralli’a Jihri Parr’a Jey Toon Na Weheen Pireen Ta Poi Aaoon Wedhey Cho Na Chadiyaan Life is like a precious and expensive Ralli [a traditional bed cover cloth], but if you are not going to sit on it, it is better to fold it up and keep it in a closet. Thus wrote Hassan Dars, Sindh’s poet of resistance in the contemporary…
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‘Over one-third of donated blood used to save mothers during childbirth’
By Amar Guriro KARACHI – Around 1.2 million of the total 3.2 million bags of blood collected every year in Pakistan are being used to save mothers’ life during deliveries, said renowned Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) consultant haematologist Dr Bushra Moiz in an exclusive interview with Pakistan Today ahead of World Blood Donor Day to be observed Tuesday (today). Moiz said that during deliveries, most mothers lose a lot…
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