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Pakistan housing finance sector: Birth, growth and scope

By Yousuf Ibnul Hasan (Pakistan News & Features Services) The last seven decades have been witnessing the transformation of the basic characteristic of Pakistan from rural to an urban country. Since independence in 1947, the population of Pakistan has shown phenomenal upward trend. In 2020, the figure has reached over 200 million people within the boundaries of the country. Accordingly, with a reasonable approach, a paper was written in 2000, anticipating the direction towards greater labor, intensity production and the market-oriented the economy would gain momentum to provide much higher employment, focused in the urban area.  Regrettably, it was upturned adverse due to non-governance of state affairs in which nation priorities were superseded to self-priorities by the state managers resulting in unemployment, political instability, inflation, anarchy and abuse of human rights.  Since 2008, non-economic in general and socioeconomic issues, in particular, were dripped for...

US diplomats meet Sindh Governor

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi  (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Governor of Sindh, Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan has reckoned that peace has been fast restored in Pakistan particularly in Karachi due to Zarb-e-Azb and the Sindh government was endeavoring to further strengthen the law and order situation and the forces and political leadership were acting under short middle term and long term plans in this regard. He said that foreign investors can take full benefit of restoration of law and order and in order to eliminate poverty and elimination of factors through which crimes come up.  "A strong Pakistan is inevitable for maintenance of peace and development in the area. He said that restoration of law and order and development in Pakistan is dependent on peace, tranquility and development in Karachi", the Governor said in a meeting with newly posted US Counsel General, Grace Shelton, and the outgoing CG Brian Heath who called on him at the Governor House....

Motorcycles distributed to vaccinators in Mirpurkhas

  By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The government of Sindh is spending a substantial part of its budget on the betterment of health sector but there are little or no signs of improvement in this particular sector. This was stated by MPA Khairunissa Mughal while addressing on the occasion of distribution of motorcycles to vaccinators at DHO Office in cooperation with the USAID in Mirpurkhas.  She regretted that the percentage of protective vaccination in urban areas was 29% while in rural areas it was 14%, which should have been 100%.  She said that government was taking practical steps to bring improvement in the sectors of education and health. She advised the vaccinators to discharge their duty with the sense of responsibility. She directed the officials of health department to keep an eye on the working of vaccinators and suspended them if found negligent in duty.  Addressing the occasion Dep...