Category: Pakistan

Around three million jobs are expected to be lost in the “initial round” of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the finance ministry told the Senate in a written response submitted on Friday. Out of the three million jobs, the industrial sector is likely to lose one million and the remaining two million will be lost in […]

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday directed a committee to submit a status report on the progress in scrutiny of the PTI’s foreign funding within a week. The scrutiny committee was formed in March 2018 to audit the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s foreign fund accounts. The directives were issued by the ECP during the […]

People on Twitter, including politicians, on Wednesday demanded justice for an eight-year-old girl who succumbed to injuries inflicted by her employers ⁠— who allegedly tortured her for accidentally setting their parrots free. Zahra, who was a domestic worker at a household in Rawalpindi, was brought to the Begum Akhtar Rukhsana Memorial Hospital on Sunday in an injured […]

The Digital Rights Foundation has reported a 189 per cent increase in complaints registered with their Cyber Harassment Helpline during Pakistan’s countrywide lockdown, enforced to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. “As Pakistan entered its lockdown [in March] in response to the Covid-19 outbreak, we feared there would be an increase in cyber harassment […]

A Lahore High Court division bench granted pre-arrest bail till June 17 to Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday, a day after a team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) raided his Model Town residence to arrest him in cases related to money laundering and assets beyond known sources […]

Two members of the provincial assembly (MPAs), one from Punjab and the other from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, passed away from Covid-19 on Wednesday, a day after Sindh minister Ghulam Murtaza Baloch died from the disease. In KP, ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) Mian Jamshedud Din Kakakhel died in the morning at Islamabad’s Kalsoom Hospital. He was on […]

KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Sunday that in terms of detection of new coronavirus cases, deaths of patients and plane crash tragedy the month of May proved to be the heaviest and worst as far as loss of human life was concerned. In a statement issued from the CM House, he […]

• 2,785 more contract coronavirus in a day, tally rises to 71,068• Minister asks officials to plan strategy for further easing restrictions ISLAMABAD: As over 54,000 people contracted the novel coronavirus and more than 1,100 patients died in Pakistan during the month of May, the percentage of tests with positive result has also increased tremendously. The […]

MQM-P leader Farogh Naseem on Monday said that he has resigned from his post as law minister on the “request of the prime minister of Pakistan”. Naseem has stepped down in order to represent the government in the presidential references filed against Supreme Court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa. In an official statement, Naseem said: […]

An alarming summary presented by the Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department to Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar almost two weeks ago had revealed that “no workplace and residential area of any town is disease-free” in the provincial capital, and that total virus cases in the city are estimated at around 0.7 million, it emerged […]