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Saving mothers

By Zubeida Mustafa

“A COUNTRY that has an atom bomb; whose armed forces have the most sophisticated and costly weapons; whose politicians are counted among the world’s richest men; also has underprivileged women who die in childbirth because their families cannot take a timely decision on when a woman in labour needs to be taken to a hospital.” These are Dr Sadiqua Jafarey’s words as quoted in Dr Shershah Syed’s recently launched book, Gulmohar. This publication is an account of the lives of the eminent couple, Drs Naeem and Sadiqua Jafarey.

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کالم: زبیدہ مصطفیٰ

افسوس اس بات کا ہے کہ دنیا کی بڑی طاقتیں اپنے اس کھیل میں دنیا کی چھوٹی ریاستوں کو اپنا شکار بنا لیتی ہیں، جس میں ان کی ترقی اور عوامی انصاف مار کھاتے ہیں۔ اب یہی کہا جا سکتا ہے کہ تاریخ کا خاتمہ بلکل نہیں ہوا بلکہ ایک نئے قسم کا تاریخی دور شروع ہوا ہے، جو پہلے سے زیادہ خطرناک ہے اور تیسری دنیا کے ممالک کے لیے زیادہ تکلیف دہ ثابت ہو گا۔

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Crisis in Pakistan: After the Deluge

Relief efforts begin after devastating flooding in Pakistan

Karachi, October 13, 2022 — In August and September, the southern Pakistani regions of Sindh and Balochistan received extraordinarily heavy rains following an unusually hot summer. Soon thereafter came devastating floods, caused by the rains and also the accelerating melting of the glaciers in the country’s mountainous northern areas of Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.  

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