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Sino-Pak traditional medicine cooperation booming under health corridor

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ISLAMABAD, Jan. 11 (DNA): With the establishment of the China-Pakistan health corridor and more and more join hands in the medicine field, traditional medicine cooperation between the two countries is booming.

A Gwadar Pro’s report says, authorities of the two countries are speeding up efforts to develop new drugs based on traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions to boost the fight against the pandemic.

It is worth-mentioning that more than 92 percent of confirmed COVID-19 patients in China had used traditional medicine, according to a white paper released by the Chinese central government.

“Pakistan is in a very good time in the pharmaceutical sector. Even during COVID-19, there is some medicine taken from Pakistan to China.

Many companies are also exploring the markets in the development of new medicines and traditional medicines to fight against the disease,” said Dr. Syed Iftikhar Hussain, senior vice president of Agribytand pharma consultant in CPEC related medicinal crops projects in Lahore.

“There are more than 3700 types of medical plants that have been identified in Pakistan. We even have some high-valued medicines that are not available in China.”

According to Syed, agricultural zones of pharmaceutical plants are widely scattered in Pakistan, yet there are hardly any qualified personnel to access the areas to take care and collect the plants. Syed and his team planed a program to solve the problem.

“From those areas, there are young generations who graduated from big cities like Islamabad and Lahore. Now we are giving them the apprenticeship training program.

The youngsters will then be the inspector supervisor to the areas to collect the information of the plant species and production. They will also help the local farmers to plant and collect the medical plants scientifically.”

“With the information collected, a network of suppliers can also be established. The role of middleman will be minimized and further boost up of marketing values of medical plants.” He said.

Syed also told us that the system that China has developed to grow the sample medicine is certainly a role model for Pakistan.

“Medicinal and nutritional crops, cultivation, processing, value-added packing, efficient market supply chain, manpower training and R&D are all potential domains to be considered and worked out utilizing the bilateral corporate resources.” he said.

Remote Pak-China online agriculture training to be arranged

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ISLAMABAD, Jan. 11,  DNA –  University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) will set up a learning and coaching center that will pave the way of arranging remote Pak-China online agriculture training.

The Center will be a model farm where students and farmers would be imparted training about the use of modern technology for agriculture.

Spread over 12 acres, the learning and coaching center, and model farm would be set up under academia-industry linkages, says a report published by Gwadar Pro.

“In Pakistan, 80% of farmers are small farmers,” said Prof Dr. Muhammad Jalal Arif, principal officer of UAF. “Small farmers are now confused about where to catch the information, the seed, and the advanced technologies and facing mechanization and the profitability issues.

So our university wants to provide services to those farmers. Since farmers and students are trained together, students can also learn from farmers with practical experience.”

Within the training center, different departments are playing different parts. “As a professor of entomology, we give the training about how to apply pesticide without harming the environment.

The seed department provides services about how we can use the safe and certified seed and how we can execute the better seed quality. In the department of soil and environmental sciences, they provide training on the use of fertilizer and nutrients.

Similarly, we are also training on the growing of vegetables and fruits, giving them the whole plan from production to export.”

“Farmers used to turn up sessions physically. Now, most of the training is online through the website and the media.”

The online training experience also makes the remote Pak-China online agriculture training possible. “We have Pakistan’s number one Chinese Confucius center at our university, where the Chinese language is being taught. We also trained our graduates from China.

We have learned many technological advances from the government of China through academician researchers.

I will talk to the Confucius center and other authorities about the provision of how farmers and experts from both countries can exchange agriculture technology online,” he said.

‘HEC Agrees On Two-Year Bachelor, Masters Programs Till 2022’

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ISLAMABAD, JAN 11 – The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has decided to accept the two-year Bachelor’s and Masters’s degree programmes till 2022 and students can now get admissions in various undergraduate and graduate programs for the next two years.

Vice-Chancellor, the University of Peshawar while talking to a news channel, said the HEC has agreed to continue the programs for the next two years.

He said the students would now have no issue with regard to admissions in these programs up till 2022.

Last year in November, the HEC had issued directives to all educational institutions to stop two-year bachelor’s degree programmes as it will not recognise any such programmes undertaken after the academic year 2018.

In this regard, the commission had also written a letter to all public and private sector degree awarding institutions in the country.

“It has been noticed with grave concerns that these programs are still being offered by universities, degree awarding institutes (DAIs), and their affiliated colleges,” read the notification issued by the commission.

I’m not only factor behind Pakistan’s team bad performance: Misbah

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Lahore : Pakistan men’s team head coach Misbah-ul-Haq thinks that he is not the only factor behind the national team’s bad performances over the past year.

The 46-year-old Misbah will appear before the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) cricket committee along with bowling coach Waqar Younis after the team’s disappointing performance on the tour of New Zealand.

Misbah wants the cricket committee to do ‘fact-based analysis’ which will further help the cricket of Pakistan.

“We have to understand all factors behind team’s defeat. There can’t just be me behind the dipping in performances. Nothing will change If one person leaves the system but we must address all the problems realistically,” Misbah said in a presser at Gaddafi Stadium.

Misbah took responsibility for the team’s defeat but wants critics to understand the reasons behind failures.

“The players worked hard in the available resources and conditions after going through a tough quarantine in New Zealand,” he added.

“COVID-19 is impacting not just our performances but it has affected other teams like India and Sri Lanka too. Cricket is completely changing due to the virus but now we have to get accustomed to this,” he maintained.

Misbah believes skipper Babar Azam’s injury was also the biggest factor behind the defeat. “Babar’s injury was a big miss for us as he has been among runs in the past year or so. Pakistan without Babar is like New Zealand without Kane,” he added.

“We should also accept that the Blackcaps were better than us in all three departments. They have been playing good cricket for the past couple of years. We also tried our best on the field during the series but unfortunately, results did not go our way,” he maintained.

Federal cabinet likely to approve budget for new accountability courts

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ISLAMABAD : Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair the federal cabinet meeting on Tuesday (tomorrow) where the members are likely to approve Rs400 million budget for the establishment of new accountability courts.

The federal cabinet members will deliberate upon the 15-point agenda including political, economic, and power-related matters in the forthcoming meeting.

A draft bill regarding the Auditor General Office will be presented in the upcoming meeting, whereas, the appointment of the director-general (DG) of Legal and Justice Authority is also included in the agenda.
The federal capital is likely to make important decisions including approval of a budget worth Rs400 million for the establishment of new accountability courts in the country.

It is pertinent to mention here that the Supreme Court (SC) had directed the federal government to make 30 new accountability courts functional within a month besides issuing orders to appoint the law secretary.

Moreover, it will also approve the provision of additional stocks of wheat to state-owned utility stores in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

The other items include approval to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Commercial Banking Lahore to declare a police station; appointment of an administration and elections of National Council For Tibb; additional charge of director-general (DG) of Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP); construction of a multi-storey building on railway land in Nowshera.

It is expected that the participants of the meeting will approve the December 23’s decisions of the cabinet’s committee on reforms, as well as decisions of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) and the committee on privatisation.

Pakistan and the United States Partner to Prevent COVID-19 in Prisons

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Islamabad, Jan 11, 2021 – From December 28 to January 7, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) section collaborated with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Prisons Department to deliver PKR 9,762,700 in personal protective equipment (PPE), hand sanitizer, soap, and gloves to staff and inmates to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The provision of PPE for staff and personal hygiene items for inmates during the pandemic is part of an ongoing partnership between the U.S. Mission to Pakistan and the KP Prisons Department to improve prisons and build capacity of corrections officials throughout Pakistan.

Under this trusted partnership, INL and the KP Prisons Department remain committed to training prison department officials in basic and advanced correctional institution management and providing hundreds of its staff with security, protective, and digital equipment to enhance their capacity to manage prisons more efficiently and ensure security of prisons.

Pakistan enters the Dark Mode

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By Muhammad Omar Iftikhar

All cities of Pakistan were engulfed in darkness on the night of January 09, 2021. While the cause is still being ascertained, some reports claimed it to be an “engineering fault.” At 11:41, the system tripped causing the flow of power to be interrupted. The electricity across the country was resumed after a lapse of nearly 12 to 15 hours. The social media users, especially those on Facebook and Twitter, began sharing their reasons behind the blackout. Some said it to be a military coup while some humorously connected it to an alien invasion. While some were talking sense by saying that the power grid has tripped, the rest were sharing memes about this incident. While such a power shutdown and a blackout do not bode well for the effectiveness of the government, it did show us a lighter side of our nation. A similar power breakdown in a Western country may have compelled people to take on the streets, loot stores, and create havoc, the people in Karachi showed an opposite reaction. They began sharing memes and jokes about the power breakdown on social media. Such a blackout wasn’t taken seriously by the Pakistanis as we as a nation are accustomed to spontaneous interruptions of power that at times do last for more than 12 to 24 hours. Moreover, we have become prone to such incidents and events. Imagine the time in 2010 when Cyclone Phet entered Sindh and it was predicted that heavy rainfalls would occur in the province. The people of Karachi went to the Sea View to witness the incoming Cyclone Phet. They did so despite the authorities asking them not to. The power blackout was again a strong reminder to the people of Pakistan and to the world that we as a nation can withstand any hurdle unless it is not backed by political or religious differences.

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Pakistan records 1,877 fresh Covid-19 infections, 32 fatalities

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ISLAMABAD : Pakistan recorded as many as 1,877 new cases of the coronavirus in a single day with 32 more fatalities.

According to the latest update released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 1,877 new cases emerged after 34,524 samples were tested during the previous 24 hours.The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country has soared to 504,293 with addition of the fresh infections while the countrywide death toll jumped to 10,676.

The NCOC said the positivity ratio of infections was recorded at 5.43 per cent. There are a total of 35,246 active cases, out of which 2,286 have been billed as critical.

The country saw 1,402 patients recovering from the disease over the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recovered patients to 458, 871.

Since the Covid-19 outbreak began last year in Feb, Sindh has reported a total of 226,338 infections, Punjab 145,508, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 61,424, Balochistan 18,412, Islamabad 39,242, Azad Jammu and Kashmir 8,489, and Gilgit Baltistan 4,880.

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