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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s federal health minister on Monday proposed ending permanent jobs in public hospitals and instead hiring employees on performance-based contracts, days after a deadly fire at a prominent government hospital in Islamabad killed 14 newborns

Pakistan’s prime minister said eight officials were suspended and called for criminal proceedings against them, after 14 infants were killed in a fire in the maternity ward of a hospital in the country’s capital

ISLAMABAD– Members of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination said on Thursday that the fire at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), which claimed the lives of 14 infants, may have been caused by a “technical fault”

At least 14 newborn babies have died in a fire on a hospital ward in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad

A group of former cricket captains, including Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar and one of England’s longest-serving skippers Sir Alastair Cook, have called on Pakistan to ensure its ex-PM Imran Khan be given proper care while in custody

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