ISLAMABAD: The executive board of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday decided to take action against those involved in creating recently a shortage of sugar and wheat flour in the country. A meeting of the executive board presided over by NAB chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal “approved conducting of comprehensive investigations of prime mega […]
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Pakistan’s lockdown has been in place now for over four weeks, with the government having eased some restrictions recently, saying that if a complete lockdown was extended, the poor would be badly affected and there would be mass unemployment. During this time, all educational institutions remain closed, workplaces switched to working remotely and all non-essential […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday that it was “impressed” by Pakistan’s efforts to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. WHO’s Twitter account, in multiple tweets quoting its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that it was “impressed by the progress being made” by certain countries, among which was Pakistan for its “commitment to establishing […]
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The United Arab Emirates and Pakistan are working to add more flights to repatriate Pakistani citizens from the Gulf Arab state, a Dubai government source said on Wednesday. Islamabad last week began repatriating some of its citizens from the UAE, which had earlier warned countries refusing to take back nationals stranded by the coronavirus pandemic […]
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PARIS/WASHINGTON: More than 160,000 people have died from the new coronavirus around the world, almost two thirds of them in Europe, according to a tally on Sunday based on official sources. A total of 160,502 fatalities have been registered out of 2,331,318 cases. These include 101,398 deaths and 1,151,820 infections in Europe, the continent hardest […]
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LONDON: The British government insisted on Sunday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was “on top of things” as he recovers from the coronavirus facing criticism of his early handling of the crisis. The Conservative leader spent three days in intensive care after contracting the virus, and has been off work since March 27, but was […]
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A gunman who drove a mock-up police car killed at least 16 people in an Atlantic Canada shooting rampage, federal police said on Sunday, the worst case of its kind in Canadian history. The shooter, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51, was shot dead by officers after a 12-hour manhunt in Nova Scotia province ended on […]
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India recorded its biggest single-day spike in coronavirus cases on Monday as the government eased one of the world’s strictest lockdowns to allow some manufacturing and agricultural activity to resume. An additional 1,553 cases were reported over 24 hours, raising the national total past 17,000. At least 543 people have died from Covid-19, the respiratory […]
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Tattoo parlours and hair salons in Denmark. Beaches in Australia. Bookstores in Germany. Nations around the world took advantage Monday of their flattening coronavirus infection curves to tentatively ease lockdowns, edging towards a new yet unknown state of normal amid a devastating pandemic. China, where the virus started its relentless march around the globe late […]
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