By Lyric Li in The Washington Post, Aug 6, 2023 at 4:58 a.m. EDTBangladesh’s worst dengue fever outbreak on record has killed more than 300 people this year, overwhelming the country’s vulnerable medical system and prompting calls for a more coordinated response amid a spike in new cases. The mosquito-borne disease has claimed at least 303 lives and infected nearly 63,700 people across the South Asian nation, according to the latest government figures on Saturday,…
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by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, February 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan reeled from the terror wave, January 2023 remained one of the deadliest months since July 2018, as 134 people lost their lives — a 139 per cent spike — and 254 received injuries in at least 44 militant attacks across the country. According to statistics released by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), an Islamabad-based think-tank, the pattern of terrorist attacks continued…
Our darkest day
Editorial in The News, December 16, 2023December 16 is a date that Pakistan is not likely to forget, for today marks the ninth anniversary of arguably the darkest chapter in our history. On this day in 2014, heavily armed TTP terrorists stormed the Army Public School in Peshawar and martyred at least 144 people, mostly children. The horrific attack shook the nation to its core, the lives lost that day forever etched into its collective…