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Dengue Fever treatments
Dec 17th
Dengue Fever Symptoms and Signs
After being bitten by a mosquito carrying the virus, the incubation period ranges from three to 15 (usually five to eight) days before the signs and symptoms of dengue appear. Dengue starts with chills, headache, pain upon moving the eyes, and low backache. Painful aching in the legs and joints occurs during the first hours of illness. The temperature rises quickly as high as 104 F (40 C), with relative low heart rate (bradycardia) and low blood pressure (hypotension). The eyes become reddened. A flushing or pale pink rash comes over the face and then More >
Karachi Garment city
Nov 20th
Introduction
In Trade Policy 2003-04, Government of Pakistan decided to setup three Garment Cities in Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad. The Provincial Governments were to allocate land to set up Garment Cities.
Cost of land is increasing tremendously. Even then the industrialists are showing keen interest to establish business and become a part of garment city. The Prime Minister and President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan are both looking forward to establishment of Karachi Garment City Project work, at earliest.
Economic Benefits,
Value Added Garments:
The project would provide great opportunity for investment by local and foreign entrepreneurs in the value added garments sector and would More >
Take a vow!
Oct 31st
by Aamna Haider Isani
Take a vow! It’s time someone stepped in to revive and reinvent the multi-million rupee bridal industry in Pakistan
While the world may never sit up and notice a ball gown designed by a Pakistani designer, the intricacy of a Bunto Kazmi Farshi gharara is mesmerising enough to get anyone’s attention. Barring those awful confectionary concoctions that are being churned out so very commercially, the quintessential Pakistani bridal is an art form that must not be lost.
T he biggest market for fashion in Pakistan isn’t the show. It’s the shaadi.
With Pakistan’s fashion- conscious middle class being a slim More >
'Uncomfortable questions' (pakistan Match fixing)
Oct 29th
‘Uncomfortable questions’
A joint statement issued by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said that no player nor team officials had “been arrested in relation to this incident”.
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Live text – Eng v Pak It added: “As this is now subject to a police investigation neither ICC, ECB, PCB nor the ground authority, the MCC, will make any further comment.”
The statement said the ICC, ECB, More >
pakistan very danger under flood video
Oct 28th
Increased aid to Pakistan’s flood victims, including $180.5 million pledged at the United Nations yesterday, will help to keep terrorists from capitalizing on the crisis, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said.
“We are not going to allow them to take advantage or exploit this natural disaster,” Qureshi told reporters in New York yesterday. The result “depends on how effective and quick the response is. That is why it is so important that the international assistance comes immediately.”
Three weeks after Pakistan’s worst-ever floods began their sweep through northwest villages hit by militants and down the Indus River, the cost threatens to More >
poultry Introduction
Oct 26th
Introduction
Contract poultry farming is when a company and a farmer signs a contract to produce broilers, breeders or replacement pullets and commercial laying hens. This method of production has been used in the poultry industry for more than 50 years and has proven to be one of the most secure and financially successful forms of agricultural production. Its success is based upon the assumption that both parties will do their part to attain maximum performance from the flock. The company furnishes feed that has been formulated by professional nutritionists to satisfy all the performance needs of the birds. They hatch More >
Paper versus plastic
Oct 12th
By Haider Warraich
T HE process wherein words are produced starts when a stimulus enters the cortical realm of the writer, trysting with ideas, notions and patterns that pre-exist in his/her head which are then processed using a known or new literary technique.
This occurs in the majority of cases, since an original idea that arises de novo, independent of outside stimulus, is a rather rare occurrence.
An important phase in the process of writing is the physical act itself. Holding a pen in the hand with an empty page staring back is a very different experience than sitting in front of a More >
Fashion turns a new leaf but could be greener
Oct 11th
The Labels’ gala lined up six designers to raise funds for Dil, though one wishes it had raised the bar for fashion too I t was an evening that held Karachi hostage to the cyclone brewing deep in the Arabian Sea, threatening to arrive with an entourage of torrential rains, thunder and lightening. There were ‘rain checks’ that survived the pun along with certain fashion models from Lahore who backed out of traveling south in fear of the impending Phet. Situated bang on the banks of the sea, the Golf Club played host to the Benefit and for many, being More >
