Category: Pakistan

PTI Senator Shibli Faraz has been appointed the new information minister of the country, federal minister Fawad Chaudhry and state-run Pakistan Television announced on Monday. Meanwhile, retired Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa has been appointed as special assistant to the prime minister (SAPM) for information, a title previously held by Firdous Ashiq Awan. “The prime minister … […]

AMIN of Khanewal has to be one of the unluckiest persons alive. The world is in the grip of an ugly pandemic. His own country is struggling to escape with the minimum possible damage. Not a single moment passes without someone somewhere in the great national pile-up coming up with a complaint. Doctors are getting […]

Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar on Friday said that India’s attempt to “link coronavirus with Muslims and Pakistanis has failed badly”. Addressing a press conference in Rawalpindi, the DG ISPR said: “At a time when the the entire world is battling the coronavirus pandemic, extremists in India have proved […]

In a first, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will conduct pool testing for Covid-19, which according to health and finance minister Taimur Khan Jhagra has increased the province’s capacity by three to five times. Jhagra said on Friday that the Covid-19 testing laboratory at Khyber Medical University (KMU) is now authorised to conduct pool testing. “After successfully conducting […]

At least 253 healthcare providers and medical workers have been infected with coronavirus in Pakistan so far, according to data shared by the National Emergency Operation Centre on Thursday. Based on the report, which has data up until April 22, 124 doctors, 39 nurses and and 90 health workers have been infected by the virus […]

A group of female doctors in Karachi warned people on Friday against coming out unnecessarily from their homes during the coronavirus pandemic, saying that the pressure on doctors would “decrease” if people listened and stayed home. The female doctors — affiliated with different medical facilities in the city — were addressing the media at the […]

Officials suspect a Chinese trader was kidnapped after his colleague filed a complaint with police saying he had gone missing from Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority, it emerged on Wednesday. According to his colleague, the missing Chinese national had gone out on Monday night at around 7pm, saying he was supposed to meet his friends for […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]