Category: Pakistan

Pakistan Day celebrations have been curtailed in light of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, with the country’s top leadership pledging to fight the pandemic that has claimed more than 14,000 lives across the world. On Monday morning, Pakistan’s death toll from the virus stood at six, while the total number of cases at 803. […]

ISLAMABAD: Fissures have started to emerge in the judicial hierarchy after the recent elevation to the Supreme Court as Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) Waqar Ahmed Seth has sent a complaint to Chief Justice of Pakis­tan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed, who is also chairman of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP). In a […]

KARACHI: In a rare gesture, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bila­wal Bhu­tto-Zardari on Thursday announced a “no criticism policy” against Prime Minis­ter Imran Khan and his government over its response to the coronavirus pandemic. He expressed the hope that the federal government will meet the challenges posed by the situation, but at the same time […]

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday submitted a requisition notice to the National Assembly secretariat, asking Speaker Asad Qaiser to convene a session of the lower house of parliament to discuss the prevailing situation in the country in the wake of coronavirus threat. The party submitted the notice under Article 54(3) of the […]

Pharmacies in Pakistan’s major cities of Karachi and Lahore have run out of medicines having hydroxychloroquine phosphate, also known as cholroquine, it emerged on Friday, after news began circulating on social media that the drug was effective in treating patients who test positive for the novel coronavirus. Several pharmacy chains in Karachi including Bin Hashim […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday expressed the hope that Pakistan’s “hot and dry” weather will help to mitigate the coronavirus outbreak, urging citizens to exercise social distancing and self-discipline. Speaking to senior journalists in Islamabad, the premier said: “We can manage [the outbreak]. There is a difference of opinion, but some doctors say that […]

Around 671 more returnees from Iran left their quarantine centre in Taftan for Sindh on Tuesday in a convoy of 18 buses while around 1,500 others are waiting to be sent to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces in the next few days. In the first wave of returnees, more than half were found to be […]

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Tuesday set up a special cell for coordination on coronavirus and introduced a number of social distancing measures. The newly-established cell, headed by Special Secretary (Admin) Moazzam Ahmed Khan, would liaise with diplomatic corps in the country as well as with Pakistani missions abroad, the FO said. The social distancing […]

• Restaurants, shopping malls, public parks, govt offices closed in province• Out-patient departments of hospitals also shut for 15 days• Inter-city bus services suspended from Friday ISLAMABAD: As the countrywide tally of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases rose to 212 on Tuesday, the Sindh government made a drastic decision under which restaurants, shopping malls, food streets, public parks […]

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday assured the nation that he was completely healthy but had “voluntarily decided” to self-isolate for five days after his return from China in order to “give a message”. “I am completely healthy […] but a message needs to be given that we should follow the guidance provided by […]