Notices issued over blocking of roads during PSL matches
Karachi
February 24, 2021
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday issued notices to the home department’s focal person and the traffic police SP on a contempt application filed against them for violating the undertaking before court with regard to not blocking roads around the National Stadium during the Pakistan Super League (PSL) cricket tournament matches.
Aziz Fatima, media coordinator of the Pasban Democratic Party, said in the contempt-of-court application that despite the undertaking before the court that the road from the Central Jail Karachi to Nipa and Sir Shah Muhammad Suleman Road from New Town to Dalmia (Aga Khan University Hospital Road) will not be blocked during PSL matches, they had been blocked again by the alleged contemnors with containers and other obstructions.
University Road and Sir Shah Muhammad Suleman Road will not be blocked during the Pakistan Super League cricket tournament matches at the National Stadium, home department and traffic police.
Call for early detection, treatment of blood cancers
Karachi
January 7, 2021
According to recent statistics, leukaemia and Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma are both amongst the top five cancers diagnosed in both men and women within Pakistan, said Dr Uzma Zaidi, consultant clinical haematologist, transplant physician and assistant professor at the National Institute of Blood Diseases, Karachi, at a webinar organised by the Neurospinal and Cancer Care Institute on Wednesday.
“Blood cancers essentially affect the production and function of your blood cells, and most originate in the bone marrow where blood cells are produced. So far, there are 137 types of blood cancers and related disorders, including leukaemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma,” she said.