PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday accused the PTI-led government of sabotaging the Sindh government’s efforts to tackle the coronavirus outbreak. “The federal government has sabotaged our every attempt through their speeches […] from the start. Through their incompetency, they have let down each and every province,” he said at a press conference in Karachi. […]
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The total number of Covid-19 cases in Karachi jumped by 446 on Friday, taking the total to 4,873 — over a quarter of Pakistan’s total of 17,611. Covid-19 cases have risen almost 200pc in Karachi over the last 11 days, from 1,691 on April 20 to 4,873 on May 1. According to Sindh Chief Minister […]
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Karachi is likely to experience a heatwave from May 5 till May 8, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department’s (PMD) forecast on Friday. As per a heat wave alert issued on the PMD website, the daytime temperature will range from 40 to 42 degrees Celsius during this period. The alert added that the wind direction will be […]
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KARACHI: A Chinese trader, who had gone missing in the Defence area last week, was safely recovered in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said a senior official here on Tuesday. The police did not come up with much detail, but confirmed that the Chinese citizen was safe. “He was traced with the help of modern technology and was recovered […]
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LAHORE: An accountability court on Tuesday sent Jang group editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman to jail on judicial remand as the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) did not seek his further custody in a 34-year-old case of 54-kanal land allegedly allotted to him by then Punjab chief minister Nawaz Sharif. At the outset of the remand hearing, […]
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• PPP alleges fewer tests are aimed at artificially flattening the curve• PM’s aide says decrease in Covid-19 tests is just for a few days ISLAMABAD: While 341 of the 751 new cases of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) were detected in Sindh in a single day, data of the Ministry of National Health Services showed on […]
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Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Security Dr Moeed Yusuf on Wednesday clarified that the two-day mandatory quarantine period for citizens returning to the country does not mean that they would necessarily be allowed to go home afterwards. Speaking at a press conference in Islamabad, he said that every passenger coming to Pakistan […]
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Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday said that Indian troops will always receive a “befitting response” to ceasefire violations along the Line of Control (LoC), calling their actions a “threat to regional peace and stability”. According to a statement by the military’s media wing, the COAS made the remarks while […]
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ISLAMABAD: Estimating a shortfall of about 16 per cent against the target for the current financial year, the government has decided to facilitate remittances from overseas Pakistanis through tax exemptions and other incentives under a special loyalty programme with effect from the start of next fiscal year. The downward revision in the current year’s target […]
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US oil prices rebounded above $14 a barrel on Wednesday, a day after a sell-off sparked by a major fund selling its short-term holdings of the commodity amid virus-triggered storage concerns. West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, for June delivery jumped 14.5 per cent to $14.13 a barrel in Asian morning trade. It had plunged […]
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