Pakistan has the fifth greatest burden of TB. With an estimated 27,000 drug-resistant TB cases each year Pakistan also ranks 6th for drug resistant TB among the 30 high burden countries.
Over 44,000 people die of tuberculosis (TB) in Pakistan every year.
The World Bank has kept Pakistan’s economic growth forecast for the fiscal year 2021-22 unchanged at 3.4%.
“Growth in Pakistan surprised on the upside, supported by improving domestic demand, record-high remittance inflows, and a narrow targeting of lockdowns,” the World Bank noted.
As many as 89 citizens were killed in 1,415 accusations and cases of blasphemy in Pakistan from 1947 to 2021, 18 women and 71 men were also extra-judicially killed over blasphemy accusations.
Henley Passport Index 2022 was recently released. The latest edition shows record-breaking levels of travel freedom for the top-ranking countries, Japan and Singapore. Pakistan was ranked at 108th position with score of 31.
Pakistan ranks 4th globally in terms of the number of people covered and 3rd globally in terms of percentage of population covered among those that covered over 100 million people.
Renowned philanthropist and humanitarian Bilquis Edhi has been selected as the 'Person of the Decade' by international web-based organization Impact Hallmarks.
Bilquis Bano Edhi is a professional nurse and she heads the Bilquis Edhi Foundation. She has spent more than six decades of her life in serving humanity in need. Her charity has saved over 42,000 unwanted babies so far by placing "jhoolas" [cradles] at the Edhi Homes and centers across the country.
Umair Masood, a student of COMSATS University has won the ‘Young Scientist Award 2021’ from the American Lab-Root organization at an annual conference on biotechnology about genetics and molecules.
