by Muhammad Ilyas/Aihtesham Khan/Razzak Abro in The Express Tribune, Nov 8, 2023PESHAWAR/ LAHORE/ KARACHI: Zain Ijaz, a resident of Gujrat, had a long-standing dream of studying in the United Kingdom. When he finally secured admission to a university in the UK, it seemed like his dream was within reach. However, an extraordinary delay in obtaining his passport now threatens to shatter his aspirations. A scarcity of lamination paper, which is used in passports and is…
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report in Khaama Press online, Sept 5, 2023The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has reduced rations for an additional two million Afghans this month. The agency’s country director has raised concerns about an impending “catastrophic” winter if funding is depleted, leaving remote communities with insufficient food supplies. Amidst increasing concern over declining aid for Afghanistan, the reduction in rations occurs. The UN humanitarian response plan for the country is currently only a quarter funded despite…
by Imran Ayub in Dawn, September 4th, 2023• Several key medicines and non-essential drugs are not available at pharmacies as black market flourishes• Govt takes notice of crisis, officials asked to submit report on remedial measures KARACHI: While people are still struggling to pay inflated electricity bills amid skyrocketing inflation, a large number of patients across the province, and those who are on medication, are hit by severe shortage of several essential medicines along with…
by Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, July 25, 2023Sri Lanka will import one million eggs per day from five selected chicken farms in Tamil Nadu, India to be sold through the state–run retail chain called ‘Lanka SATHOSA’ primarily in the Western Province to address the shortage, an official said. Chairman of State Engineering Corporation Asiri Walisundara told Daily Mirror that a team of officials from the Department of Animal Production and Health visited these farms…
By Dipendra Shakya in The Kathmandu Post, April 27, 2023The writer is the Sankhuwasabha correspondent for Kantipur Publications.Food shortage is looming large in the Bhotkhola area of Sankhuwasabha, a hill district in Koshi Province. The villagers, who live near the border with China in Bhotkhola Rural Municipality and are dependent on Tibetan markets for daily supplies, are facing a shortage of food grain and other essentials after the border closed by China since the Covid…