Pakistan hands over 'state-of-the-art 'Jinnah Hospital in Kabul to Afghan authorities
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The Government of Pakistan on Saturday officially handed over the Kabul-based Jinnah Hospital to Afghanistan, according to a press release issued by the Foreign Office.
The FO said that Afghan Vice-President Sarwar Danish, Afghan Minister of Public Health Dr Ferozuddin Feroz and Pakistani Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Muhammad Khan, jointly inaugurated the "200-bed state-of-the-art" hospital in a ceremony held in Kabul today.
Khan, the Pakistani representative, expressed hope that the Jinnah Hospital — completed at a cost of $24 million — would be a "substantial contribution" to the health sector of Afghanistan.
The minister, as per the press release, also conveyed Prime Minister Imran Khan's message that Pakistan would continue to take all possible measures for the welfare of the people of Afghanistan, adding that the premier wished to see a "stable, secure, peaceful, prosperous and sovereign Islamic Republic of Afghanistan".
Afghan minister Dr Feroz expressed his gratitude for the "generous gift" and appreciated "Pakistan’s immense assistance in the health sector," which also includes the Nishtar Kidney Center in Jalalabad and the under-construction 100-bed Naeb Aminullah Khan Hospital in Logar.
Pakistan's Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zahid Nasrullah Khan, said that the Jinnah Hospital was a "flagship project" of the nation's US$1 billion development assistance to Afghanistan, which according to the press release, was in "in pursuance of Pakistan’s policy objective of deepening and broadening people-to-people connections between the two countries".
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Apr 20, 2019 05:37pm
Mashallah, great work!
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Apr 20, 2019 05:43pm
Wow we are building state of the art hospitals in foreign land.......but why are our polititians are going to foreign for theor treatment. Some of them have not even returned from there....
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Apr 20, 2019 05:48pm
Good news...
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Apr 20, 2019 05:51pm
Great move by the government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to hand over the state-of-the-art 200-bed Jinnah Hospital, based in the historic capital city of Kabul, to the wonderful land and gallant people of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as part of its US$ 1 billion assistance to the brotherly neighboring country and it's brave, hard working, talented and smart people.
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Apr 20, 2019 05:51pm
Don’t have drugs or meds in public hospital. WHAT AN INCOMPETENT SECISION
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Apr 20, 2019 05:52pm
Interesting news indeed.
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Apr 20, 2019 05:57pm
I love our Muslim brothers and sisters in Afghanistan. They deserve peace and tranquillity but I am not sure if this gesture will do anything to bring the two nations together. Pakistan has suffered a lot but the puppet regime always supports India and regularly accuses Pakistan.
I believe this Hospital would have been set up in Peshawar where people from both countries would have benefited.
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Apr 20, 2019 05:58pm
What about welfare of Pakistanis own people, why Pakistani need to go to India for treatment.
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Apr 20, 2019 05:59pm
It is indeed a good gesture..but charity starts from home..We do desperately need more hospitals in Pakistan..and 25 million USD is lot ...under current economic conditions...
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Apr 20, 2019 06:07pm
And still after all the hardship of Pakistan’s venture in to Afghan territory will the Afghan leadership and their stooges still side with India to destabilise Pakistan.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:20pm
Let it be a good example. India and Pakistan should compete each other to build more school, colleges, Dams, hospitals in Afghanistan instead of doing arm race.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:27pm
Good move. Help the people not rulers
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Apr 20, 2019 06:31pm
Hospital should have been handed over to Afghan people not to the puppet Govt.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:37pm
Excellent, Pakistan acting as the benevolent regional power and taking care of the countries that need care.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:38pm
Isn't it ridiculous... pak can build state of art hospital for Afghans but not of themselves.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:39pm
We should build more hospitals in pakistan first as most of our people rush to India for medical treatment. Wastage of taxpayers money amid dwindling economy.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:41pm
valuable contribution from pakistan and yet ungrateful Afghanistan still blames Pakistan and carries out negative tirade propaganda and action against its benefactores. they even do not fully recognize and appreciate that pakistan hosted Millions of its cirizens for umpeen yuearsIi
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Apr 20, 2019 06:42pm
What the heck? There is no good hospital in BallochIstan, NWFP, AK.....but the government has enough money to build a hospital in Afghanistan.....when are you going to build hospital in under developed region of pakistan? Never... .
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Apr 20, 2019 06:44pm
Great step by Pakistan government to faciliate people of Afghanistan. People to people contact with neighbouring countries is need of the hour.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:52pm
Good. Action!
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Apr 20, 2019 06:53pm
Cancer hospital next. Good move.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:53pm
Thr best diplomatic iniiative for bettrr pak afghan ties
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Apr 20, 2019 06:54pm
Best syep foreard by pakistan
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Apr 20, 2019 06:58pm
Good job Pakistan.
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Apr 20, 2019 06:59pm
Fix are own hospitals first and invest in Pakistan first
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Apr 20, 2019 07:00pm
State of the art hospital vs a library no Afghan knows about. Thank you brothers.
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Apr 20, 2019 07:00pm
Amazing news.
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Apr 20, 2019 07:04pm
Congratulations !!
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Apr 20, 2019 07:05pm
Afghan Should welcome this First Ever Positive Gift
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Apr 20, 2019 07:05pm
No Indian troll comments. I guess busy respinning the Swaraj story.
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Apr 20, 2019 07:13pm
Should have spend in Pakistan
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Apr 20, 2019 07:19pm
This is really funny! Can’t get a ‘state of the art ‘ hospital for this nation and we handover one to another nation! Unbelievable!
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Apr 20, 2019 07:19pm
Instead of improving health facilities in Pakistan where people have to beg neighborhood Foreign ministry for visas and face humiliation,this is rubbing salt on their wounds.
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Apr 20, 2019 07:20pm
Impressed, good job!
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Apr 20, 2019 07:20pm
Plz make such state of art hospitals for Pakistanis who have to travel neighborhood for treatment
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Apr 20, 2019 07:20pm
That’s one of the best ways to spread love
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Apr 20, 2019 07:24pm
Charity begins at home.Common Pakistani's travelling to India for medical reasons and you are opening state of art hospital in Afghanistan
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Apr 20, 2019 07:26pm
What a waste to hand all this to a nation of ingrates. Day and night their leaders spew venom against our nation, the only things stopping them from carrying out their fantasies against us being their impotence and the fact that their national sport is to spend their time killing each other. And what do we do in response? We end up hosting millions of Afghan refugees for most of our nation's existence at a tremendous cost to us, not just monetary, but also in terms of societal damage, crime and terrorism. As if this were not enough, we build brand new hospitals and other facilities in their nation.
The time has come to move swiftly and end this bizarre relationship. We should use the opportunity of the endgame being played out right now in Afghanistan, in which we are coaxing all Afghan parties to settle their differences, to do a course correction. The Afghan refugees must be sent home, and the Durand line closed till Afghanistan learns to be content with its international borders.
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Apr 20, 2019 07:39pm
May I know where is state-of-the-art hospital in Pakistan? I had to take my family to India or UAE for treatment.
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Apr 20, 2019 07:41pm
One has also building good hospitals in the country for the local population apart from these geopolitical state of the art hospitals in other countries.
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Apr 20, 2019 07:41pm
@Krishna, "Let it be a good example. India and Pakistan should compete each other to build more school, colleges, Dams, hospitals in Afghanistan instead of doing arm race."
There is no comparison here. Pakistan has hosted millions of Afghan refugees for 40 years at a tremendous cost to itself. You simply cannot compare this to the building of a library or giving a handful of buses. Hosting refugees is incredibly expensive in many different ways. Just recall how India used the excuse of a similar refugee influx, that only lasted a few months, not decades, to declare war on Pakistan in 1971, or the lengths India is going to avoid Rhoyniga refugees.
And also remember that the original cause of the refugee exodus from Afghanistan and its descent into violence was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, something that India did not condemn; indeed India recognised and supported the Soviet backed regime in Kabul, despite hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of refugees.
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Apr 20, 2019 07:55pm
This money could have been better used in Pakistan. Afghanistan’s border must be sealed and Afghan deported.
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Apr 20, 2019 08:02pm
Good job!
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Apr 20, 2019 08:13pm
@Zak, great sense of humor
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Apr 20, 2019 08:15pm
@Mo, The Afghan puppet government supposts India but the people of Afghanistan support Pakistan. Hospital is for them. Hope Pakistani appointed Doctors run it for efficiency free of corruption.
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Apr 20, 2019 08:18pm
@Syed H, well elaborated but the Indian fictional history books teach them something totally opposite. That's the tragedy. That's why they don't understand anything.
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Apr 20, 2019 08:19pm
@modi, After few mishaps in Indian hospitals, no one wants to ggo to India. In fact Indians want to come to SKH in Lahore.
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Apr 20, 2019 08:22pm
Proud of Pakistan.
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Apr 20, 2019 08:24pm
Pakistan commitment for continued peace in Afghanistan. We have supported Afghans since 40 years and we will support them for next 100 years.
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Apr 20, 2019 08:28pm
Don't forget modern hospital requires good personnel!
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Apr 20, 2019 08:54pm
Surprise! A country with crumbling medical facilities dedicates state of art modern hospital to Afghanistan? What's the catch?
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Apr 20, 2019 09:11pm
Hospitals and schools are what required in war torn country. Good job.
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Apr 20, 2019 09:15pm
more such initiatives are needed in Afghanistan.
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Apr 20, 2019 09:16pm
Great
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Apr 20, 2019 09:23pm
Spend the funds inside Pakistan. We have helped Afghanistan for over 30 years and yet even those Afghan born in Pakistan has shown hate for Pakistan once they cross border
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Apr 20, 2019 09:27pm
It is only an infra, good qualified doctors will make the difference. From where they are going to get that is the question.
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Apr 20, 2019 09:33pm
@Pukhtoon, do you know Afghan parliament
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Apr 20, 2019 09:38pm
state of art hospital in Kabul? why not in Pakistan? My Pakistani brother keep waiting in queue for medical visa other country. It is same on Pakistan foreign policy
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Apr 20, 2019 09:43pm
@fairplay, Good positive step from Pakistan.
As far as Pakistani coming to India for treatment is not because of lack of hospitals. Quality, resources, advanced machinery, specialization matters. I think for that you need good medical hospitals and mentors.
And yes we proud of Sushma Swaraj ji who just follow the humanity, nothing else while helping people from other countries. Just ask your brothers and sisters who realised that.
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Apr 20, 2019 09:58pm
Let American and Indians build hospitals in Afganistan.
Let our government take care of sick in Pakistan first.
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Apr 20, 2019 10:01pm
So these state of art hospital construction started during nawaz Shariff regime. But he himself went to London for medical treatment.
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Apr 20, 2019 10:04pm
The hospital should have been managed / run by Pakistan.
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Apr 20, 2019 10:16pm
We don't have a decent hospital in Pakistan but yet building state of the art hospital in Afghanistan what a joke
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Apr 20, 2019 10:24pm
It will be better if Pakistan build hospital to treat its own patients so that they don't have to come to India.
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Apr 20, 2019 10:36pm
What is this joke, Afghans hate us
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Apr 20, 2019 10:38pm
Folks should understand that people go outside the country or to India for treatment because it is cheaper there in India compared to Pakistan. It is not that Pakistan does not have state of the art hospital. It is just that they are expensive then Indians ones. On the quality basis, both countries hospitals are same.
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Apr 20, 2019 10:44pm
@Ravi, there are many state of the art hospitals in pakistan. The way they are being run, now that's another story.
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Apr 20, 2019 10:45pm
Do Pakistani citizens deserve such state of the art hospitals? We are not even getting medicines in our hospitals.
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Apr 20, 2019 11:44pm
@Zak, nice dream. Now wake up.
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Apr 20, 2019 11:50pm
How about building decent primary care centers here in Pakistan?
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Apr 20, 2019 11:50pm
Thanks to all my Pakistani Brothers and Sisters, Lets spread Love and Eliminate Hate.
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Apr 21, 2019 12:17am
I am surprised the Afghans let this happen given that it has Jinnah name.
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Apr 21, 2019 12:30am
This is a nice gesture that i hope afghanistan wud interpret in positive manner.
I wud also urge the government to give proper attention to public healthcare in pakistan too.
Private hospitals are too expensive for common people to bear.
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Apr 21, 2019 12:31am
@Krishna, man of peace thanks.
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Apr 21, 2019 02:17am
All animosities and competition between India and Pakistan aside, all Pakistanis who have come to India for medical treatment have gone back happy at being treated nicely by one and all inside the hospital and outside as well. The feedback has always been very positive on all fronts, as it should be.
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Apr 21, 2019 02:55am
Pakistan is a land for all, there should be no talk of go home.
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Apr 21, 2019 03:27am
Good deed indeed for all the atrocities done by Pakistan a good act is always appreciated and acknowledged
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Apr 21, 2019 03:45am
@Jehengir khan,
I agree. Why keep borrowing money from all over the world to do charity.
Charity is for those countries who have surplus reserve funds and not for a country moving around with a bowl
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Apr 21, 2019 04:33am
@fairplay, Never. Ask Dawn to let us speak. Yes we are happy at Pakistan's gesture. Such care is exemplary and laudable.
Thanks Pakistan.
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Apr 21, 2019 04:54am
Wow a bigger and a donor.
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Apr 21, 2019 05:55am
state of what art
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Apr 21, 2019 06:05am
The Afghan people have suffered immensely from wars imposed on them for the past 35 odd years. The health sector is just one example where they are left vulnerable to neglect, deceit and exploitation. I see afghan families loose their lives saving evaporate a matter of a few days in Islamabad of Rawalpindi. This misery ought to end.
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Apr 21, 2019 06:43am
okay.. cannot understand where is this $ money coming from .. when Pakistan is going to begging bowl to gulf nation, China, Malaysia, Turkey and IMF.. unless it’s stolen money from Afghanistan in terms of getting US grant for passage rights thru Pakistan.
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Apr 21, 2019 07:14am
Looking after your neighbours.
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Apr 21, 2019 07:14am
A hospital is a lot more than hard facilities. It's the doctors, nurses and staff which makes the difference, the training, upkeep of equipment and medicines in the pharmacy. Will Pakistan finance this? Will pakistani doctors be sent to run it?
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Apr 21, 2019 07:20am
This is the good gesture of peace, but the ungrateful will not be loyal to Pakistan. State of the art hospital should also built in Sondh and Balochistan.
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Apr 21, 2019 07:59am
How many countries Pakistan helping while it’s own population is dying of bad health care system. Now we also know where is the money going.
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Apr 21, 2019 08:15am
to all those creating furore over why can't pakistan built state of the art hospital for itself too,...I just want to say ,relaxed,It's not the state of the art hospital.
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Apr 21, 2019 08:18am
The motivation to spend money abroad is not humanitarian but wickedness. Pakistan very badly needs good hospitals but expenditure at home is traceable. So politicians cant steal as much as from a foreign project. This is the motivation for wicked politicians to spend abroad - another dirty trick learned from USA. US government allots billions abroad in the name of humanitarian aid but only a tiny fraction reaches the targets. The remaining are siphoned off and stolen by the crooked politicians.
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Apr 21, 2019 08:34am
Well done.
But priority should be better and more hospitals in Pakistan.
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Apr 21, 2019 08:52am
Well done Pakistan.
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Apr 21, 2019 09:06am
I am sorry, I have missed the beginning.
How is Pakistan handing over a hospital to Afghanistan that is in Afghanistan?
Did Pakistan build the hospital in Afghanistan? I don't think so.
I apologize for my ignorance. Can someone please enlighten me.
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Apr 21, 2019 12:01pm
@Ravi, we have state of the art hospitals, like NICVD, Shaukat Khanam, Tabba, Agha Khan and so on
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Apr 21, 2019 02:20pm
Pakistan building a Hospital in Afghanistan? That's like US going and teaching Cricket to Mexico.
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Apr 21, 2019 02:47pm
So many people cutting a single ribbon! Guess, each of them will fight among themselves for the credit.
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Apr 21, 2019 06:40pm
So, $1 billion assistance to Afghanistan for a brand new hospital, while the country is in an economic mess.
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Apr 21, 2019 06:42pm
This is like giving money to your struggling estranged brother, while you don’t have money to send your kids to school.
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Apr 21, 2019 06:44pm
@Krishna, how about building better facilities in our own countries first. Let Afghanistan sort out its own mess. Developing countries like Indian and Pakistan should focus on their own development and let rich countries help Afghanistan.
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Apr 21, 2019 09:58pm
Will Pakistani politicians go for treatment to this hospital now instead of the UK?
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Apr 21, 2019 11:08pm
@Syed Hafeez Imran, You had taken money from the Americans to fight their war . You provided the logistics also your country has claimed money for the upkeep of the refugees.
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Apr 21, 2019 11:35pm
Pakistan has deep interest in the stability of Afghanistan to ensure that peace reigns in both countries with common heritage...both countries have paid a heavy price over the decades due to invasions and militant attacks... it's time for it to end... this gesture is one way to rebuild trust, friendship and enhance economic development for mutual benefit..
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Apr 22, 2019 01:10am
@B N Sharma, From Pakistan, the best. Most top American Doctors are from Pakistan.
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Apr 22, 2019 07:25am
@Zak, you are lying again.
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Apr 22, 2019 08:01am
Great work!!!
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Apr 22, 2019 09:50am
When Pakistan is unable to desing, build, maintain, operate "state of the art" hospitals here in Pakistan, how can we claim to build this facility in other countries,
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