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.
Ms. Komal Ali Shah,MPhil Student at Department of Strategic Studies, National Defence University (NDU) Flag of Pakistan, has been selected as the first Pakistani for the Hiroshima-ICAN Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security 2021
With global agreement to speed up action on climate change, Pakistan is among 130 countries committed to reversing deforestation along with cutting methane emissions by 30pc by the year 2030.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released its annual report as per which Pakistan has been ranked ninth among 12 countries where journalists have been killed and the murderers are still at large.
according to the index are 1-Somalia, 2- Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Mexico, the Philippines, Brazil, 9- Pakistan, Russia, Bangladesh and 12- India.
