Category: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Sunday announced that the process for payment of Rs144 billion under the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme would commence on April 8, to support millions of people affected by the countrywide lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic. Overall the federal government will provide Rs12,000 assistance to 12 million families each, while Punjab […]

GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan government on Thursday announced that the novel coronavirus had killed a resident and affected two more taking the region’s confirmed cases tally to 92. It also said eight residents had recovered from the virus. Information minister Shams Mir told a news conference here that the death toll from the virus in GB […]

LAHORE: A woman died of coronavirus in the provincial capital which also witnessed a sharp spike in cases after 101 more members at Tableeghi Jamaat Headquarters at Raiwind City tested positive for the virus besides 40 citizens in other parts of the city during the last 24 hours. This surge has perturbed the health authorities […]

A man self-immolated outside Prime Minister House in Islamabad on Friday, with Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Hamza Shafqaat saying he was “mentally disturbed”. Shafqaat added that the deceased, identified as Faisal Mehmood, was a resident of Murree and was mentally unstable and a drug addict. The claim about Mehmood’s mental health could not be independently verified. […]

Police enforced a strict lockdown across the country to restrict Friday prayer congregations and curb the spread of the coronavirus, officials said, after failing to prevent large gatherings last week. Health experts have warned of an epidemic in South Asia, home to a fifth of the world’s population, that could easily overwhelm its weak public […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan would start a week-long repatriation flight programme from Saturday for bringing back its nationals stranded overseas because of disruption of flights and tightening of travel restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said 17 repatriation flights would be flown between April 4 -11. Under the plan approved by the National […]

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Tuesday rejected a petition of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Faryal Talpur seeking to unfreeze her personal bank account, but restored two accounts of her daughters. Accountability Court-II Judge Azam Khan issued the order on Ms Talpur’s petition challenging the freezing of her account in connection with the fake bank […]

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Wednesday that the government planned to provide kits of protective gear to journalists visiting quarantine centres and intensive care units (ICUs) to report on the Covid-19 pandemic. She made these remarks while addressing a video conference of provincial information ministers […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Coronavirus Relief Fund is accepting donations from today (Wednesday) to help those “who have been made destitute by the lockdown” imposed due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Taking to Twitter, Prime Minister Imran urged the nation to come forward and donate to the fund. “[The fund] will be used to take care […]

A team of researchers in Pakistan, led by Dow University of Health Sciences Vice Chancellor Professor Mohammad Saeed Quraishy, think that the genetic make up of the novel coronavirus may alter in a locally transmitted case. The finding is not final as researchers are still studying the genome sequence of the virus and the research, […]