Islamabad, June 9 (IANS): One-fifth of college and university students in Pakistan -- aged from 20 to 25 years -- are addicted to smoking sheesha, a form of hookah-smoking with a flavoured tobacco, a study has found. The study by …
Two more people died of measles in Pakistan's Punjab province, raising the number of deaths in the region to 146, officials said. Eight-year-old Talha died at the Children Hospital in Lahore while 24-year-old Zainab died at the …
Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay who was in a hospital here after being attacked in a Jammu jail last week died Thursday morning, doctors said. Ranjay, who was extremely critical for the last few days and had suffered renal …
Pakistani cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan, who was injured after he fell down from a ‘lifter’ in Lahore on Tuesday, is in stable condition, his spokesman and party leaders said. Khan, chairman of Pakistan …
Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay continued to be ‘critically sick’, doctors at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) said on Saturday evening. ‘His neurological status continues to be …
Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah, who was critically injured after being attacked by an Indian prisoner Friday in a Jammu jail, is in coma and on ventilator support, doctors at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and …
The distraught family of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner on death row in Pakistan who was brutally assaulted last week, is likely to return home after doctors have reportedly indicated that he was ‘clinically …
Sarabjit Singh will continue to receive treatment in Pakistan, said a medical panel formed to decide whether the Indian death row prisoner, who was grievously injured in an attack in Kot Lakhpat jail, needs to be taken …
With doctors in a Lahore hospital describing as ‘slim’ the chances of survival of badly beaten up Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, his hapless family Sunday pleaded for help from the Indian government, which said it …
Billionaires Bill Gates and Carlos Slim said that they planned to join forces to eradicate polio in six years. Gates, the founder of US tech giant Microsoft, said it was not often that you received a letter proposing to wipe out …
In what could be termed as one of the defining moments in the war against polio, banned Pakistani militant outfit Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has announced that it would support the anti-polio drive based on the guarantee …
Madhia Tariq, 16, had no hope of survival when she slipped into a coma after collapsing in her Lahore school in January due to acute liver failure. An air ambulance from Delhi brought the young Pakistani student to India -- and …
Though India has not reported a single case of polio in the past two years, there is no room for complacency as the virus still exists in some neighbouring countries, officials said . ‘Polio still exists in Afghanistan, …
A group of Indian doctors were helping their Pakistani counterparts to do complex liver transplants in Lahore even as Pakistani raiders were beheading Indian soldiers. The doctors from Delhi's Apollo Hospital spent long hours in …
