Tag: punjab province

  • Death toll rises to 38 after school bus accident in Pakistan

    The death toll has risen to nearly 40 after a school bus carrying more than 100 young people overturned in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Monday evening, police said on Tuesday. The accident happened near the town of Kallar Kahar, located in Chakwal District, where the students had visited a salt mine and joined a school…

  • Almost 10,000 people infected with dengue fever in Pakistan

    A team of World Health Organization (WHO) is arriving on Sunday in Pakistan to help cope with dengue fever that has affected almost 10,000 people in the country, the Pakistani news agency INN reported, referring to official sources. In recent weeks, dengue fever has rapidly spread across Pakistan but the country’s north-eastern Punjab province has…