Second Chinese medical team leaves for Gwadar to provide medical assistance

BEIJING: The second batch of Chinese Red Cross medical team comprising 14 doctors and medical staff has left here for Gwadar to provide humanitarian medical assistance at emergency medical center.The second batch will replace the first batch which has been providing medical assistance for the last six months at the center.The China Red Cross Society and the Chinese Red Cross Foundation have established the first public welfare project to jointly carry out the One Belt One Road International Humanitarian Assistance at Gwadar in February last year, according to official sources on Monday.The steel structure boardroom and medical equipment of the center were donated by domestic enterprises.The medical personnel were selected by the Chinese Red Cross Society and the National Health and Family Planning Commission from the doctors of the cooperative hospital.In September 2017, the 12 medical staff of the first medical teams began to provide half-year medical services to Pakistani residents and staff of Chinese companies in Gwadar.As of the end of March this year, the center had received more than 1,000 visits by Chinese and Pakistani patients and had also conducted 260 medical examinations for elementary school students from Elementary School and the Gwadar Port Authority, which were built in Gwadar by China.With the development of medical teamwork, the local patients and people have appreciated the performance of the medical team.The second batch of medical teams dispatched this time will take over the first batch of medical teams and begin a six-month medical service.This batch of foreign aid medical teams consists of medical personnel from Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, the 999 Emergency Center of Beijing Red Cross Society, Hospital of Fudan University and the project staff of the Chinese Red Cross Foundation.The Chinese Red Cross Society and the National Health and Family Planning Commission jointly held a pre-mobilization meeting and training for the medical team.Wang Ping, Vice President and Secretary General of the Chinese Red Cross Society and Liu Xuanguo, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Red Cross Foundation, Zhou Jie, the International Exchange Center of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, and the relevant leaders of the 999 Emergency Center of the Beijing Red Cross Society attended the mobilization meeting.Experts from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) East Asia Office and the National Health and Family Planning Commission's International Exchange and Cooperation Center have trained the medical team members in overseas training on humanitarian assistance.Entrusted by the Red Cross Society of China, Liu Xuanguo, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Red Cross Foundation, led the second group of Chinese Red Cross Aid Medical Teams to Pakistan to guide the handover of the first and second batch of medical teams, and to connect with the Red Crescent Society of Pakistan.Fu Daoying, Deputy Secretary of Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, and Liu Xiuhua, Secretary of the 999 Emergency Center of the Beijing Red Cross Society, are travelling with the team.The medical team consists of two medical experts with rich clinical and foreign experience, including medical experts and nursing staff in emergency, orthopaedics, and gynaecology, neurosurgery, and testing.

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Musharraf promises a return if provided ?satisfying? security

ISLAMABAD: Former president and All-Pakistan Muslim League chief General (retired) Pervez Musharraf on Monday announced that he is waiting for a secure time to return homeland and expects justice from the judiciary.Speaking to media after a telephonic address to party members, Musharraf guaranteed a return to Pakistan if the next regime would offer a promising and secure environment.Taking jibe against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) quaid, he said Nawaz Sharif constantly contends about respecting public's votes, but he, himself, doesn't respect nation's votes and is digging himself a grave.He added that he will reside in whichever city that would provide him with the most support.He said he will analyse as per local leadership regarding when and where to show his support during the upcoming elections 2018.

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Defiant Nawaz Sharif says ?will not surrender?

ISLAMABAD: Deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Monday that PML-N would continue its ‘respect to vote’ campaign and he will not surrender before the dark forces.Addressing party lawmakers alongside Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) President and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Nawaz said if the party legislators will support him they will definitely win.Nawaz said PML-N believes in serving the masses and if its agenda of development was given ten to twenty years’ time, destiny of Pakistan would be changed.Castigating Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, Nawaz said, Imran Khan should stop his duplicity and spreading lies as this was not the method to make a new Pakistan.He asked Imran what his party has done for public welfare in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), where the PTI is in power for past five years.Talking about the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), he asked why the PPP did not initiate the Karachi Operation in 2013 on its own. "Karachi has turned into a pile of garbage," he remarked.Referring to PPP co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari, Nawaz said, there were allegations against him of taking the country into the dark ages.Nawaz Sharif challenged his opponents in KP and Sindh to compare their provinces to Punjab, where the PML-N is in power.He also asked his opponents to make comparison of Karachi and Peshawar with Punjab capital Lahore and they will feel the difference as Lahore was far better.He said he launched work on several motorway projects after coming to power in 2013 and with their completion dream of the people will be realized.He said if his party agenda of service and development was given 10 to 20 years’ time, destiny of the nation would be changed.But he said unfortunately he was not allowed to serve the people of Pakistan by interventions.

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Sindh Food Authority to launch food inspection drive

KARACHI: The Sindh Food Authority (SFA) has now kick started as a regulatory body to instigate a massive foods quality-check drive around the city. The Sindh government on Monday approved the launch of a food inspection drive which will examine quality processes of every existing food place running in the metropolitan.The food inspection drive has instigated with its first check on five, seven-star hotels, restaurants and hospital canteens.According to the Food Authority, all five star hotels, big or small restaurants, bakeries, sweets sellers and other eateries will be provided a license once they pass the inspection, which will be mandatory for any eatery to continue business.SFA officials and staff will launch quality analysis into preparation and selling measures in mineral water companies, raw food manufacturers, vegetable bakeries, departmental stores, hoteliers, restaurants, including the platforms of vegetable farming.Director Operation Sindh Food Authority Abrar Sheikh said it is obligatory for every food platform to maintain hygiene and carry out clean measures for preparation and storation of food.Chairman All Restaurant Association Shaukat Ali Suleman said a restaurant management has also been formed to improve the quality of food provision.It is pertinent to mention here that the idea for the formation of SFA was proposed on April 1. It was decided upon salient rules and regulations. The scrutiny was decided to be headed by Authority Board of Governors, secretaries of different departments, a three-member Assembly, as well as authorized food enthusiasts and consumer representatives. The team will be formed to carry out the food examination as per the decided rules and regulations.The authority will base its analysis on a total of 523 concerns, which will adjust the inspection accordingly with the nature of the eatery to declare its liability.Every chef and commercial cook will have to acquire a medical certificate, the authority decided.

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PAF?s C-130 lands at new Islamabad airport to assess quality

ISLAMABAD: Following the tradition of assisting national organizations and the instructions of its senior leadership, PAF has lent a hand to Civil Aviation Authority for smooth and safe conduct of operations at the newly constructed Islamabad International Airport.In coordination with and on request of CAA, a C-130 flight with passengers and luggage landed at the newly constructed runway of the airport on Friday to assess instrument landing pattern and the quality of the landing strip.Earlier, various PAF aircrafts including light weight Super Mushshak trainer to PAF Hercules Transport aircraft had also landed at the runway, paving its way for the successful landing of the first PIA mock flight at the airport.To de-conflict the air traffic, PAF in consultation with CAA air traffic controllers has readjusted its flying training areas and routes for smooth approach paths of New Islamabad International Airport. Moreover, PAF has also established a state of the art Air Traffic Control Squadron, manned by qualified controllers to ensure the smooth air traffic flow round the clock at the new airport. Acting Director General Civil Aviation Authority, Air Vice Marshal Usaid-ur-Rehman Usmani has acknowledged the vigorous support of PAF in running the new airport and hoped that this mega project will usher in a new era of prosperity of country.

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Firstly speak of KP?s developments in eleven points: Talal Chaudhry rules out Imran

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Talal Chaudhry on Monday cited that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Imran Khan should firstly elaborate in eleven points the developments brought to KP during his occupancy.While briefing the media persons outside the Supreme Court, the PML-N spokesperson reprimanded the PTI chief’s Minar-e-Pakistan rally held Sunday night.He said we awaited the entire rally in seek of any demonstration from which ‘any development’ carried out in KP within his occupancy could be ‘evident’ but the rally only spoke of eleven points.“We yearned to see if corruption has diminish from KP, if education has been duplicated of Oxford’s quality, but the eleven points failed to depict a single development made throughout the five years,” he said.Castigating to Imran’s promised development plans; one being to drive out corruption from the country when he wins the governing tenure, Talal pointed out how the anti-corruption division has already been sacked.He said Imran’s remarks about the health and education clauses promised that all hospitals will operate like Shaukat Khanum and all universities will run like Namal University – “but legitimately, all universities including Peshawar University are providing fake degrees”. He also questioned what developments are evident in the hospitals operating in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.He remarked that those eleven points did not declare anything innovative and were based on old talks.“Imran was speaking as if he was not in the country during the past seven years; he had authority over KP for the recent five years. He should have brought on screen the developments he brought to hospitals and schools in KP during his tenure, but he had nothing to demonstrate,” Talal added. He said Khan has instigated a secretive deal of garnering votes for Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) expecting that both the parties’ leaders can win the seat of either the president or the prime minister, he added, the elections would not end up as we witnessed during the Senate trickery.“The elections for the president or the prime minister would be unlikely of the Senate episode. These elections will be walking through the polling stations”. He lashed out that if Imran Khan has failed it doesn’t mean that Pakistan should be dragged to failure too. He said the elections will be carried out as per the decided schedule.The PML-N leader added that the party’s quaid Nawaz Sharif is only facing consequences for speaking up for the honour of public’s mandate, for speaking to change the 70 years old state, for speaking firmly.He said we [PML-N] never spoke of revolution, never declared ourselves ‘Momin’, but those who did, view their group photos from 2011 to 2018 and you wouldn’t guess whether it is a PTI rally or of PML-N. “Imran Khan has gathered such ‘lotay’ [members] which are never of a benefit to any area’s mosque,” he added.

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Traffic warden rewarded after risking life for a dead cat

A traffic policeman has received considerable accolade after a video showing him risking his life to remove the carcass of a cat in Karachi, went viral on social media.As per reports by Geo News, the traffic warden identified as Waqar Ali was on duty at the signal-free Shahra-e-Faisal when he decided to put his life in danger to move a cat that had been killed by a speeding car on the signal-free road.Footage of him moving unfazed through the rapidly moving traffic to remove the dead animal was posted on social media by a bystander, which was received positively by people all around.After the video went viral, Sindh Inspector General AD Khawaja had announced to reward Waqar with a cash prize of Rs100,000.He had also been rewarded Rs20,000 by the Sukkur DIG and Rs5,000 by DIG Traffic.

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Nawaz pitted me against establishment, alleges Zardari

LAHORE: Asif Zardari opened up for the first time about his differences with Nawaz Sharif in a meeting with party leaders and said that Sharif pitted him against the establishment.Pakistan Peoples’ Party Co-chairman said the elder Sharif is more cunning and opportunist than he thought and he always backstabbed him.Zardari said that when PPP demanded impeachment of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, he stepped back. ‘Although we supported the treason trial against ex-president, but Nawaz let him go abroad. We came to know later that he was allowed to leave under a deal.’Referring to his June 2015 anti-establishment statement, PPP supremo said it was Nawaz who provoked me for this. Zardari had lashed out at the military establishment for overstepping its domain. After this controversial speech, Nawaz Sharif, who was then the prime minister, cancelled his planned meeting with Zardari.Accusing Nawaz for backstabbing him, PPP co-chairman said he used my statement to his benefit and tried to mend fences with General Raheel Sharif.I wanted to have good relations with him but he activated NAB and other agencies against us and now I will not support him, he added.

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Sindh Rangers put on new uniforms

KARACHI: Pattern of Pakistan Rangers Sindh uinform has been changed days after the paramilitary force authorized new uniform change.The paramilitary troops are wearing new unifrom from today.on April 15,  the Rangers had said in statement that the pattern of uniform was being changed for all ranks deployed in Sindh province and its capital Karachi.The statement also carried samples of old and new uniforms in order to enable the people to identify the personnel of Sindh Rangers. The Rangers have been carrying out an operation against criminal elements in Karachi in collaboration with Sindh police since 2013.During their campaign, the police and the paramilitary forces have established peace in Karachi, home to 20 million people and commercial hub of the nuclear armed nation .  

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US diplomat released after brief detention over hitting bikers

ISLAMABAD: Another incident of hitting bikers occurred in Islamabad when a US diplomat’s vehicle struck a bike, injuring two persons late on Sunday. While police have released the diplomat from the Secretariat Police Station after a brief detention. As per details, US diplomat Chad Rex Ausburn, who struck bikers on Sunday night in a fresh incident, has been released from Secretariat Police Station after a brief detention. Soon after the accident, area police arrived at the scene and took US official into custody. Shortly after, several locals and foreigners arrived in the Police Station after that he was released. The injured were immediately were shifted to nearby medical facility where their condition is said to be stable.This is the forth road accident in recent years in which US diplomats have hit and killed or injured people in Islamabad.

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Punjab Drug Act 2017: Medical stores remain shut on strike?s fourth day

LAHORE: Local medical stores remained closed on Sunday on the fourth consecutive day of strike imposed by Pakistan Chemists and Druggist Association (PCDA) against Punjab Drug Act 2017.The strike, which is being observed against the government-proposed amendment in the Drug Act, has led to closure of medical stores in various cities across Punjab, including Multan, Gujranwala, Kabirwala, Rajanpur, Mandi Bahauddin, Jhang and Bahawalpur. The strike is to continue reportedly till provincial government revokes enforcement of the amendment, informed various medical shop owners. Punjab Drug Act 2017 amendment that has caused resistance from medical shop owners had previously declared it mandatory for every medical shop to seat a certified pharmacist at all times, including maintenance of hygiene at all stores, failing which will subject them to heavy penalties. The amendment also announced increased penalties in case of fake medicines’ sales, leading to 3-10 years of imprisonment for manufacturing and selling unlicensed drugs that includes a fine of Rs.50 million.

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