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Orchids For Your Home

 Those of you lucky enough to visit the Far East this year, where tissue culture orchids are often sold at airports, have a wonderful opportunity to pick up some beauties.
17 April, 2013
Zahrah Nasir
Daily Dawn
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27 June, 2012
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Health Experts: One Last Push Needed to Eliminate Polio

The three countries where polio is still endemic - Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan - are conducting aggressive immunization campaigns to vaccinate more children against the disease. Experts say with India now polio-free and the total number of cases at the lowest level ever, this is an opportunity to change history and irradicate the disease entirely.

04 September, 2012
VOA
Vidushi Sinha
campaigns, children, disease, Pakistan, polio, vaccinate, virus, WHO
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Pakistan urged to focus on water crisis, not India

WASHINGTON, Dec 13: The international community must embark on back-channel diplomacy to bring Pakistan and India closer together and must assist cooperative projects to make water distribution more equitable, says a report on Pakistan’s water crisis.

14 December, 2010
Daily Dawn
Our Correspondent
india, Pakistan, water, water crisis
14 December, 2010
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Pneumonia looms large in flood-hit areas

MULTAN, Dec 10: Children in the flood-hit areas are at high risk of catching pneumonia as winter temperatures plummet, warns a non-government organisation.

13 December, 2010
Daily Dawn
Our Staff Reporter
children, disease, families, Flood, flood-hit areas, Food, infection, ngo, Pakistan, patients, pneumonia, winter
11 December, 2010
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International Volunteer Day Everyone can be part of solution to climate change

ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: Pakistan is one the top five countries where volunteers have registered more than 1.5 million hours of efforts to tackle climate change and other environmental issues.
International Volunteer Day is being observed worldwide on Sunday.

07 December, 2010
Our Staff Reporter
climate change, environment, environmental, ngo, Pakistan, volunteers
05 December, 2010
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Train between Turkey and Pakistan to start soon

LAHORE, Nov 20: Rail service will soon be launched between Pakistan and Turkey whereas Turkey is taking solid steps to promote trade and overcome energy crises in Pakistan. These views were expressed by heads of Turkish traders’ delegation Turgut Puyan and Dogan Kaynak during a media briefing, says a handout issued here on Saturday.

03 December, 2010
Daily Dawn
Energy, Flood, Pakistan, rail, turkey
21 November, 2010
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Pakistan, US sign wind power deal

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States signed a $375 million (Rs32 billion) agreement on Sunday to carry out a 150 megawatts wind power generation project.
The agreement was signed by US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke and Water and Power Secretary Javed Iqbal.

02 December, 2010
Daily Dawn
Energy, gharo, karachi, megawatts, Pakistan, power, thatta, united states, water, wind power
15 November, 2010
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Alarming decline in shark catch over 11 years

KARACHI, Aug 5: With over 81 per cent decline in shark landing registered since 1999 and lack of a proper mechanism to regulate shark fishing, marine experts feared that the country might get deprived of this marine species in coming years.
06 August, 2010
Faiza Ilyas
Daily Dawn
agriculture, dangerous, ecosystems, export, fishing, Food, marine species, Pakistan, shark, shark catch
06 August, 2010
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KARACHI: Health care for disabled women urged

KARACHI, March 7: That women face hardships in our society due to gender discrimination and social inequalities is a well-known fact. 

06 August, 2010
Daily Dawn
Faiza Ilyas
disability, healthcare, healthy, ngo, Pakistan, pma, shershah syed, society, women
08 March, 2009
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Renewable energy: Power on the go

 Pakistan is presently facing a major problem with respect to power crisis. But this can be managed by exploiting our indigenous resources, i.e. natural resources like solar, wind, hydro and involving our energetic public. The solution would be long-lasting and sustainable because it will be based on our own resources unlike the power and gas supplies from other regional countries, ...
06 July, 2010
Shafiq Khan
Daily Dawn
central asia, fossil fuel, gas supplies, global warming, hydro, indigenous, iran, Pakistan, power crisis, resources, solar, sustainable, wind
04 July, 2010
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