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PUBLIC INTEREST AND MEDIA: A CASE STUDY OF PAKISTAN Pakistan was created in 1947, as a homeland for Muslims in South Asia, and about 97 percent of Pakistanis are Muslim.The founders of Pakistan aimed that religion would provide a cognitive focus for national identity, a focus that would take over the country's ethnic and linguistic variations. Although this aspiration has not been completely fulfilled, Islam is the dominating religion in Pakistani society, and debate continues about its appropriate role in national civic life. PAKISTAN AS A SOCIETY Pakistani society is a diverse society with reference to birth, origins, or cultural background.Pakistan is an agriculture based country where almost 80% of its population lives in village. women consist of 52% of the population but It is a male-dominated society in which social development has lagged considerably behind economic change, Pakistani society is facing challenges like sanitation, access to health care, and literacy, espe...

DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT CAMPAIGN FOR HEALTH UNIT IN VILLAGE In the remote village of Chandiya at Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab a huge population is waiting for their turn to receive medical treatment.There is no health facility in this village in a radius of 6 kilometres. They have to take their women to far off villages. Most of the time they have to rely on quacks or traditional healers, thus putting the lives of their children and women in danger. Dera Ghazi Khan is one of eight districts sharing borders with polio high risk areas of Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa having active virus circulation and polio cases. The district is notorious for low immunization coverage, poor health services and misconceptions permeating among parents about oral polio vaccine. BASIC PROBLEMS OF THIS AREA 1:No medical facilitiation available Due to lack of medical facilities the children don’t receive any vaccination resulting in poor immunity 2: No Basic hygiene awareness There isn’t a...