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The Ministry of National Health Services, in coordination with the World Health Organisation (WHO), on Wednesday launched the Prime Minister’s Hepatitis C Elimination Programme aimed at eliminating the disease by 2030. Under the initiative, Pakistan has set a target of reaching 1.6 million people in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) over the next six months as part of a broader nationwide elimination drive. The programme, launched at a soft-launch ceremony in Islamabad, is part of a phased national rollout that will eventually extend to more than 164m people across the country, focusing on large-scale screening, early diagnosis and free treatment to curb the spread of Hepatitis C. وزیرِاعظم کے پروگرام برائے انسداد ہیپاٹائٹس سی کے سافٹ لانچ کی تقریب میں وفاقی وزیرِ صحت سید مصطفی کمال نے خطاب کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ پاکستان میں ہیپاٹائٹس سی کے خاتمے کا عملی آغاز ہو چکا ہے۔ یہ پروگرام گزشتہ 10 سال کی کوششوں کا نتیجہ ہے اور اس پر 67 ارب روپے کی خطیر لاگت مختص کی گئی...

Major Tauseef Ahmed Bhatti and four other military personnel were martyred during an area sanitisation operation in Balochistan’s Barkhan district on Wednesday, the military’s media wing said. “On the morning of May 13, 2026, troops of Pakistan Army and Frontier Corps Balochistan commenced an area sanitisation operation at general area Nosham of Barkhan District to eliminate terrorists of Indian backed Fitna Al Hindustan,” the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement. بلوچستان میں سیکیورٹی فورسز کی کامیاب کارروائی میں بھارتی پروردہ سات دہشت گر جہنم واصل، افسر سمیت پانچ بیٹے مادر وطن پر نثار pic.twitter.com/wT79J5xo6U — PTV News (@PTVNewsOfficial) May 13, 2026 It said the troops located and engaged a group of terrorists. “During fire exchange seven terrorists of Indian backed Fitna Al Hindustan were sent to hell,” the ISPR added, further saying that weapons, ammunition and explosives were also recovered from them. R...

World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday "our work is not over" to contain the hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness. The fate of the MV Hondius has sparked international alarm after three passengers died in an outbreak of the rare virus, for which no vaccines or specific treatments exist, with a Frenchwoman also in a critical condition. Yet health officials have stressed that the global public health risk is low and rejected comparisons to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. "There is no sign that we are seeing the start of a larger outbreak," Tedros told a joint news conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Madrid after overseeing the evacuation in Spain's Canary Islands. .@WHO’s assessment on #hantavirus continues to be that the risk to health globally is low. My latest update ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/gnm9pbqaF3 — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu...

The Karachi police on Tuesday arrested a woman accused of operating one of the city’s most organised narcotics supply networks. The suspect, identified as Anmol alias “Pinky”, was arrested during a joint operation conducted by the City police and a civil agency from an apartment in the Garden area. Investigators claim she was running a sophisticated cocaine processing and delivery operation with links extending beyond Karachi to Lahore, Islamabad and other cities. Read: Anmol, alias Pinky, caught in drug web According to the police, Pinky not only supplied narcotics to affluent neighbourhoods, including DHA and Clifton, but also personally prepared high-grade cocaine and managed deliveries through female riders and online platforms. During interrogation, she allegedly claimed that “no one in Pakistan makes better cocaine” than hers. Police said she sold two categories of cocaine — “White Coke” for Rs25,000 per gram and “Gol...

A renewed campaign by the Municipal Corporation Lahore (MCL) against stray dogs has sparked controversy, with animal rights activists alleging that dogs are being killed through poisonous injections and other inhumane methods in different parts of the city, while protesters are also facing legal action and harassment. In recent days, operations against stray dogs were carried out in Sultan Colony, Township, Shadbagh, Green Town and several other localities. According to district administration and MCL officials, the actions were initiated following complaints from residents and incidents of dog attacks. The administration launched a large-scale operation after a child was killed in Sultan Colony a few days ago, claiming that multiple stray dogs had been captured during the campaign. Officials said the purpose of the operation was to ensure the safety of citizens and protect lives and property. However, animal welfare organisations and activists described the operations as illeg...

The district administration and police in Swat launched legal action on Monday after a group of local individuals allegedly stopped tourists from travelling to Mahodand Lake in Kalam, an incident that later went viral on social media and raised concerns over tourist safety in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s premier tourist destination. According to officials, tourists travelling in private coasters and tour vehicles towards Mahodand Lake were intercepted by local people who allegedly insisted that visitors use local transport services instead. The confrontation disrupted the tourists’ journey, while some vehicles were reportedly threatened with stone pelting, forcing several groups to abandon their visit to the lake. The affected tourists, including students from Sargodha University, were unable to complete their trip to Mahodand Lake, one of Swat’s most visited tourist attractions. Taking immediate notice of the incident, Swat Deputy Commissioner (DC) Saleem Ja...