The tobacco industry has a history of using international trade agreements to force open new markets in low and middle income countries, greatly increasing tobacco use and the consequent death/disease it causes. Tobacco companies are also challenging measures to reduce tobacco use as violations of t

Sub:- (i)- Sunday Wagah border blast has awakened Pak to reality (ii)- Pak leading media’s apprehension about takeover of AF-PAK by ISIS, should be taken seriously (iii)- After US withdrawal from Afghanistan ISIS activities bound to increase in AF - PAK (iv)- ISIS may try to grab Afghanistan, half o

Sub:- (i)- As a leader of free world USA faces greatest challenge in India, the largest secular democracy that too in Asia (ii)- USA should ensure that freedom of expression of Imam (being browbeaten by India), is protected (ii)- Nawaz comes or not Bukhari has every right to invite him and not Modi

Lahore High Court – LHC judges have saved their skin and confirmed the death sentence of Asiya Bibi. Unfortunately, in high profile case of Asiya Bibi, the radical groups are also tracking her case and their presences in the court have shown that they were willing to keep Asiya’s death sentence conf

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Why church is facing deficit? Why Christian leadership is not performing the duty to save souls? Why sons of light are in the darkness of flesh world? Why new generations of Pakistani Christian are on the edge of destruction morally, spiritually and economically even almost dead walking?

"Foundation of HIV prevention is infact HIV testing" said Dr Anthony Fauci of National Institutes of Health at the opening plenary (via video link) of the HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P). But mobilizing people to go for voluntary and repeated counselling and testing for HIV has indeed been a ch

It is time to act and no time to waste. That is the urgent message of the report "The Looming Co-epidemic of TB-Diabetes: A Call to Action" launched jointly by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) at the opening day of the

As HIV prevention needs and contexts vary, it is important to expand the range of effective prevention options that people can use. Archbishop Desmond Tutu said in a video link at the first-ever international conference on all HIV-related biomedical prevention research, that “No single method of pre

For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued guidelines on testing, treating and managing latent TB infection (LTBI) in individuals with high risk of developing the disease. These guidelines were launched today at the Global TB Symposium just before the start of the 45th Union

Takfiri Islamists that turn to the sword are committing untold barbarity in countless nations. Indeed, it is difficult to pin down if Takfiri Islamists are more inhumane in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, or in Nigeria. After all, the Taliban is known to have stoned people to death whil

There is a direct and irreconcilable conflict of interest between tobacco industry and public health policy. This conflict of interest is also enshrined in the preamble of the Article 5.3 of the global tobacco treaty (formally called WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control). The WHO Director-Gen

Sometimes we forget that a new millennium is running on and in 2014 nobody is unknown to anyone in this global village. Particularly people of this SAARC region are very much aware of each other’s socio-economic scenarios and conflicts.
Few months ago when Hameed Mir of geo channel was shot & sev

If you want to view the real mirror of ISIS (IS – Islamic State) then look no further than the religious apartheid state of Saudi Arabia. After all, this nation supports systematic anti non-Muslim and anti-Shia legislation. Indeed, not one Buddhist temple, Hindu temple or Christian church is tolerat

Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream / I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been / To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen / They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed.... --lyrics by Jimmy Page fro

With a new Afghan president on the scene, there is an opportunity to inject new momentum into the fight against narcotics, but first of all the past mistakes must be recognized and addressed. The share of opium in the Afghan economy had increased during the time of soviet occupation drastically and