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A man died, and five children and two women were injured in an explosion on Wednesday morning that took place at a multi-storey residential building in the Lyari area of Karachi. The explosion took place at the sixth floor of the building located in Liaquat Ashraf Colony in the Lyari neighbourhood within the limits of the Kalri police station. As a result, a man was killed and seven others, including five children and two women, sustained injuries. Rescue workers reached the property and transported the casualties to the Civil Hospital,…

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A mysterious disease similar to dengue fever is spreading fast in the city. The disease caused by mosquito bite tests negative for malaria, dengue and other vector borne diseases. Patients, including adults as well as children, with dengue fever like symptoms such as headache and high fever, are coming to various public and private hospitals, healthcare experts said. Infected patients undergo various tests to diagnose the mosquitoborne diseases including dengue, malaria, chikungunya and others with negative results. Medical experts have advised citizens to take precautionary measures against mosquitoes. Talking to…

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The Petroleum Differential Claim (PDC) lasted four days, before the government rushed to increase prices. Come November 16, 2021, normal services seem to have resumed, as the authorities continue to be pressed in the wake of high global crude oil price. This time around, another first was recorded, as GST on gasoline, came down to nothing, for the first time ever. The government finally seems to have a change of heart in terms of prioritizing petroleum revenues. Recall that it was Petroleum Levy (PL) on petrol, that had tanked to…

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Progress doesn’t follow a straight line. The outcomes from most-recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow – dubbed as COP26 – have disappointed climate activists. The climate change issue is a major, era-defining test of the multilateral system that has been in place for many decades. But major powers have competing interests, which complicate reaching a consensus. What has been lately ignored by pundits and analysts is that climate discussions have been taking place under an environment of fatigues and constraints brought on by the pandemic. Countries are focusing…

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A three-day National Workshop on the Ten Billion Trees Tsunami Programme (TBTTP) was concluded today in Islamabad. The workshop was jointly organized by the Ministry of Climate Change of the Government of Pakistan, KfW and the Third Party Monitoring Consortium: IUCN Pakistan, FAO Pakistan and WWF-Pakistan with the financial assistance of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the participation of the Forestry Departments of all provinces, AJK and GB. The workshop currently focused on building the capacities of the stakeholders and the Third Party Monitoring…

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