Category: Pakistan

The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) — in an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus — has made it compulsory for all international passengers arriving in the country to provide a copy of the test result for COVID-19. The number of coronavirus cases in the country rose to 237 on Tuesday as […]

LAHORE: The government has converted all public sector universities’ hostels into quarantine centres as an immediate arrangement for likely coronavirus patients as health authorities confirmed first COVID-19 case in the Punjab capital on Sunday. A senior Higher Education Department (HED) official told Dawn that hostels were being vacated and cleaned as a precautionary measure to turn rooms […]

ISLAMABAD: A second case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has been confirmed in the capital while a number of sectors and segments of society who are vulnerable to the disease have not been addressed. Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) media coordinator Dr Wasim Khawaja said the second patient is the […]

KARACHI: As many as 358 children — 252 boys and 106 girls — became victims of child abuse in Sindh between 2014 and 2019, it emerged on Sunday. A recent police study about child abuse cases in the province showed that girls found to be more vulnerable between ages of 1-5 and 16-18 while boys […]

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has emphasised the need for preventing coronavirus from spreading through national awareness and strict compliance with “simple measures by all of us”. “It is not a political issue but a national one. The war hero’s role is yours thru ur weapons of social media & ur phone messages. Don’t stop […]

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi will leave for China on Monday (today) on his first visit to the neighbouring country since assuming the office in September 2018. In a statement issued here on Sunday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said that the president would be visiting China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping of […]

ISLAMABAD: A day after the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Thursday asked the government to enforce health emergency and gear up efforts to check the spread of coronavirus in the country. Talking to reporters at the Parliament House building, chairman of the Senate Standing Committee […]

The National Security Committee (NSC) on Friday decided to take a number of steps to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country, including closing the borders with Iran and Afghanistan and cancelling the Pakistan Day parade held annually on March 23. The meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan and was attended by the […]

An accountability court in Lahore on Friday granted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) 12-day physical remand of Jang Group’s Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakilur Rahman in a property case. The court had originally granted NAB an 11-day physical remand but extended it by a day when Rahman’s counsel Aitizaz Ahsan said that he would not be available […]

Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Friday said it was unfair to term the arrest of Jang Group’s Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakilur Rahman a part of revenge tactics by the government for his media house’s stance. On Thursday, Rahman had been arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) […]