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		<title>Flood relief work in South Pakistan at risk from lack of funds</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/08/flood-relief-work-in-south-pakistan-at-risk-from-lack-of-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Widow Hoori Fatima, 76, was still struggling with grief over the death of her son Ali Raza, the family’s only breadwinner, in late October.
Wiping her tears away with her headscarf, Fatima said her son ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling water woes thru rainwater harvesting in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/10/26/tackling-water-woes-thru-rainwater-harvesting-in-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rainwater Harvesting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saleem Shaikh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sindh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sukaar Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tharparkar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tharparkar, Pakistan: Wearing colourful traditional dresses with silver jewellery and bangles on their arms, the women of Tharparkar district look festive. But the empty earthen pots they carry tell a different story.
“Walking for three miles ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sindh chief secy seeks timely completion of water-sewerage project</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/14/sind-chief-secy-seeks-timely-completion-of-water-sewerage-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/14/sind-chief-secy-seeks-timely-completion-of-water-sewerage-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drinking water in Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manchar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manchar Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sindh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water purification]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Karachi, July 13: Chief Secretary Sindh, Raja Muhammad Abbas, has stressed for pacing up the work on water projects and purification of the Manchar Lake Water to provide safe drinking water to the people and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Lahories and Food: Inevitables</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/13/lahories-and-food-inevitables/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/13/lahories-and-food-inevitables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rai M Azlan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foods & cuisines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food culture in Lahore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pak-times.com/?p=16053</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lahore is a historical city, historians relate it to the son of famous Hindu mythological character Ram. Well whatever is the reason behind the name of the city Lahore, one thing will remain the fact ...]]></description>
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		<title>Japan to help Pakistan eradicate polio</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/08/japan-to-help-pakistan-eradicate-polio/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/08/japan-to-help-pakistan-eradicate-polio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polio Eradication Program]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Japan will provide additional 50 million dollars to Pakistan for the polio eradication program. This was stated by Japanese ambassador Hiroshi Oe in his meeting with Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani at PM ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rising of polio cases as ‘tragic’, says Sindh acting governor</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/08/rising-of-polio-cases-as-tragic-says-sindh-acting-governor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/08/rising-of-polio-cases-as-tragic-says-sindh-acting-governor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-polio campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polio cases in Sindh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI:  Acting Sindh Governor, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, has termed the emergence of new cases of polio in the province as tragic.  He was chairing a high level meeting at the Governor House here ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;AIDS drugs can cause premature aging&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/27/aids-drugs-can-cause-premature-aging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/27/aids-drugs-can-cause-premature-aging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nabeel Malik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pak-times.com/?p=15830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A class of anti-retro-viral drugs commonly used to treat HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa and low income countries, can cause premature aging, a new study has claimed. The study, published in the journal Nature Genetics, found ...]]></description>
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		<title>Control diabetes to cut cancer risk</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/26/control-diabetes-to-cut-cancer-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/26/control-diabetes-to-cut-cancer-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Diabetes is associated with lower risk of prostate cancer in men but with higher risk of other cancers in both men and women, according to a new study. The NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study ...]]></description>
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		<title>Media&#8217;s role for sensitisation of people on reproductive health issues highlighted</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/21/medias-role-for-sensitisation-of-people-on-reproductive-health-issues-highlighted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/21/medias-role-for-sensitisation-of-people-on-reproductive-health-issues-highlighted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pak-times.com/?p=15901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Islamabad: A Policy Dialogue on Reproductive Health was organized by LEAD Pakistan in Lahore today. The basic objective of this Dialogue was to discuss and debate research conducted under “Enabling Effective Leadership for Reproductive Health”, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Insufficient food for most in Pakistan: global food survey</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/18/insufficient-food-for-most-in-pakistan-global-food-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/18/insufficient-food-for-most-in-pakistan-global-food-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foods & cuisines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food crisis in Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food insecurity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Karachi: People across the world are changing what they eat because of the rising cost of food, according to a new global survey released today as part of Oxfam’s international GROW campaign, and Pakistan’s newly-formed ...]]></description>
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		<title>Outbreak of gastroenteritis, malaria in the wake of monsoon warned</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/08/outbreak-of-gastroenteritis-malaria-in-the-wake-of-monsoon-warned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/08/outbreak-of-gastroenteritis-malaria-in-the-wake-of-monsoon-warned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dengue fever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gastroenteritis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monsoon in Pakistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Child specialist warned against possible outbreak of pre-monsoon as well as post rainy season malaria and gastroenteritis among children in the city. Prof. Ayesha Mehnaz, Head of Pediatrics Department, Civil Hospital, Karachi told Pakistan ...]]></description>
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		<title>PIMS short of  life saving equipments</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/06/pims-short-of-life-saving-equipments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/06/pims-short-of-life-saving-equipments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nabeel Malik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) is lacking life saving equipments. Attendants and patients were in tension when this scribe visited ICU and dialysis unit in the hospital on Monday. “What does dialysis mean ...]]></description>
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		<title>Green tea helps fight autoimmune disease</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/04/green-tea-helps-fight-autoimmune-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/04/green-tea-helps-fight-autoimmune-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nabeel Malik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health benefits of green tea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Researchers at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University have discovered that one of the beneficial compounds found in green tea has a powerful ability to fight autoimmune disease. They found that the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Milk in tea could prevent weight loss</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/04/milk-in-tea-could-prevent-weight-loss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/04/milk-in-tea-could-prevent-weight-loss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nabeel Malik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Beware, especially if you want to lose weight &#8211; don`t add milk to tea, or you would pile on the pounds. Scientists have discovered that tea contains high levels of compounds that help reduce ...]]></description>
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		<title>Drink lots of milk to cut heart disease</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/04/drink-lots-of-milk-to-cut-heart-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/06/04/drink-lots-of-milk-to-cut-heart-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nabeel Malik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart diseases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Drinking three glasses of milk per day decreases the risk of cardiovascular disease by 18 percent, says researchers. Wageningen and Harvard University researchers examined 17 studies from Europe, USA and Japan, and found no ...]]></description>
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