Category: Pakistan

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari warned his party government in Sindh on Thursday to prepare for the “worst situation” emerging from the novel coronavirus outbreak. He wanted the PPP provincial government to equip itself with a comprehensive plan warning that he would not tolerate any shortfall in the provision of assistance to […]

LAHORE: An accountability court on Tuesday extended physical remand of Jang group editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman for another 11 days in a 34-year-old land allotment case, while the Lahore High Court dismissed two identical petitions for his bail and quashment of the remand. Earlier, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) produced Mr Rehman before the trial […]

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Airlines Pilots Association (Palpa) called off its strike after it was assured that personal protection equipment (PPE) will be provided to the cockpit and cabin crew staff. On the other hand, standard operating procedures (SOPs) designed by the government and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will be followed by the pilots. The decision […]

ISLAMABAD: Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa on Tuesday directed his commanders to assist the civilian administration in uninterrupted supply of essential items to remote regions. Chairing the 231st Corps Commanders’ Conference, the army chief, according to the ISPR, asked the commanders to “extend maximum assistance in moving critical resources and reaching out to mitigate suffering […]

LAHORE: Punjab has achieved the capacity of conducting 3,100 Covid-19 tests daily, which will be increased to 5,000 tests in the next few days, says Chief Minister Usman Buzdar while presiding over a video-link meeting of the cabinet committee for eradication of coronavirus here on Tuesday. As many as 1,785 people were tested on Monday, […]

The government will distribute the relief money from tomorrow among lower-income people who have been hit by financial crisis due to the ongoing lockdown, Prime Minister Imran Khan told the media on Wednesday. The premier said that a sum of Rs12,000 will be distributed among 12 million families from 17,000 different points. He insisted that […]

TAXILA: The government has cancelled Baisakhi celebrations scheduled to begin on April 14 in Hassanabdal, in which 3,000 Sikhs from India and 2,000 from elsewhere around the world were to participate. Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Deputy Secretary Shrines Imran Gondal said that a meeting of the ETPB and the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbadhank Committee […]

RAWALPINDI/TAXILA: A total of 31 pilgrims have been brought from the Taftan border and quarantined at facilities in Rawalpindi and Taxila. The Rawalpindi district administration on Sunday moved 19 pilgrims to a quarantine facility in the Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, and booked three hotels in Saddar to quarantine passengers travelling from abroad […]

LAHORE: Two main opposition parties – the PML-N and the PPP – have demanded immediate action against the influential people nominated in a report about sugar and wheat flour crises submitted to the prime minister by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday. Commenting on it on Sunday, PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif said the FIA […]

Balochistan Police arrested over a dozen young doctors in Quetta on Monday while they were protesting against the unavailability of personal protective equipment (PPEs) in provincial hospitals as the war against Covid-19 intensifies. Young Doctors Association (YDA) and paramedical staff began a demonstration from Civil Hospital and marched up to the chief minister’s secretariat where […]