Cervical cancer initiative launched

Monday, August 09, 2010 Our correspondent IslamabadAssisted by UNFPA, the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Centre of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has launched piloting of cervi…

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UNFPA rushes delivery, hygiene supplies

Thursday, August 05, 2010 Our correspondent IslamabadResponding to the worst flood to hit Pakistan since 1929, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has rushed supplies to help with childbirt…

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World Population Day tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: World Population Day would be commemorated on July 11 (Sunday) with the theme “Everyone Counts” with special focus on women and children. The theme of the day has been decided considering the fact that counting everyone is an integral part of ensuring everyone’’s equal rights. World Population Day was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNFPA) in 1989 as a way to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. It was an outgrowth of the interest generated by the Day of Five Billion, which was observed on 11 July 1987. World Population Day 2010, Everyone Counts, will underscore the importance of data for development. It will foster an understanding of why reliable, disaggregated data is so crucial to progress and encourage people to participate in the census and other data collection efforts. The day emphasized that good demographic data is critical for planning schools, health system and public transportation for designing policies based on future population projections for monitoring the effectiveness of service delivery and much more. The year World Population Day highlights the importance of data for development. The focus is on the 2010 round the population and housing census, data analysis for development and UNFPA’’s lead role in population and development. Reliable data makes a difference and the key is to collect, analyze and disseminate data in a way that drives good decision making.

Written on July 10, 2010 | Posted in 2010, Health, ISI, NFP, News, cia, import, islam, islamabad, live, women | Leave a comment

Charsi’s Corner: Mullah Nadaan vs. Zion Hamid

Mullah Nadaan is a prominent cleric of the ’secular’ firqa of Islam. This firqa developed after some Muslims learned English during British Rule. This made them far advanced than Islam which was originally designed for Bedouin Arabs who speak Arabic rather than English speaking urban desi wannabe Yuppie’s which they wanted to be. So they

Written on July 2, 2010 | Posted in Entertainment, NFP, News, Politics, ban, conspiracy-theory, islam, muslims, nadeem faroooq paracha, zaid hamid | Leave a comment

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