US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had taken a coronavirus test, as the White House began protectively checking the temperature of anyone coming into close contact with him or Vice......
LET’S not kid ourselves: ‘mera jism, meri marzi’ (my body, my choice) is not a mere slogan. It is a call to arms.Those thugs who stoned the women participating in the Aurat March in Islamabad......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday made his first public statement on the coronavirus pandemic, telling the nation that he is "personally overseeing measures" to deal with the disease.Taking to......
An accountability court in Lahore on Saturday directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to facilitate the meetings of Jang Group editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman with his family members......
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Saturday directed officials to establish a quarantine room in each district to combat the spread of coronavirus, as the province reported another case of the......
THE powerful loudspeakers of my neighbourhood mosque have just announced a death. The introductory words never change: “Hazraat, aik zaroori ailaan sunyeh” (respectable sirs, hear now an important......
Veteran politician and one of the founding members of PPP, Dr Mubashir Hasan, passed away at his residence in Lahore on Saturday. He was 98.Dr Hasan had been unwell and under treatment for the past......
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Saturday urged PML-N and PPP lawmakers from South Punjab to join the PTI government in moving forward with establishing a separate province by forming......
LAHORE: The Government College University (GCU) has not extended the contract of a lecturer in Political Science allegedly for actively advocating students’ rights and their progressive ideas.Zaigham......
STATUS QUO has gone viral.Pakistan is slowly and grudgingly waking up to a pandemic. Soon we shall be told by the governments to do this that and the other, or not do it. The state and its minions......
President Donald Trump said Friday he will “most likely” be tested for the novel coronavirus, as questions swirled about why he, his top aides and his family weren’t doing more to protect themselves......
US President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency as the World Health Organisation named Europe the new epicenter of the coronavirus, with countries sealing borders, shutting schools......
Microsoft on Friday announced that co-founder Bill Gates has left its board of directors to devote more time to philanthropy.The 64-year-old stopped being involved in day-to-day operations at the......
India on Saturday increased taxes on petrol and diesel in a desperate attempt to increase government revenue at a time when tax collections have fallen amid the weakest economic growth in six......
For reasons unknown, children rarely have severe symptoms when infected by COVID-19 and may even be a bit less likely to get the disease in the first place, experts told AFP.But that doesn't mean......
KARACHI: School’s out until May 30 and colleges and universities until further notice due to the coronavirus scare, and parents who used to send their children to summer school during vacations can’t......
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has offered a reward for the development of antidote to the coronavirus, says a statement released on Friday.Nasir Shah said that any......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday directed the provincial authorities to immediately launch a fumigation drive in the prisons of the province in view of the coronavirus outbreak and to prevent......
KARACHI: A local court on Friday remanded to police custody for interrogation two suspects, including the owner of a multistorey building that collapsed in Gulbahar.The five-storey residential......
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden is shaking up his campaign leadership by naming a veteran of Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s White House bids as his campaign......
ANKARA: Turkey and Russia have agreed on the details of a ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib region after four days of talks in Ankara, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Friday, adding that joint patrols......
WASHINGTON: Former US Army soldier and WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning was released from prison on Thursday on a judge’s order after being held since May for refusing to testify in an ongoing US......
HOUSTON: A 19-year-old pregnant woman from Guatemala died this week from injuries suffered when she fell trying to climb the US border wall near El Paso, Texas, US and Guatemalan authorities......
SAINTES: A retired surgeon accused of sexually abusing as many as 349 young children over decades primarily his patients, in their hospital rooms is facing justice at last, in the worst such case to......
CHRISTCHURCH: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday that New Zealanders have become more engaged with the Muslim community in the year since a gunman killed 51 people at two mosques.Ardern was......
MUZAFFARGARH: A formal forward bloc in the opposition PML-N in the Punjab Assembly is in the offing if claims by its MPA Azhar Abbas Chandia are to be believed.The first-time MPA from Muzaffargarh......
JERUSALEM: Religious authorities cancelled or limited weekly prayer gatherings across the Middle East on Friday to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus as they encouraged the faithful to......
LAHORE: After the National Stadium, Karachi hosted its first match without any spectators on Friday, it was learnt that Gaddafi Stadium will also be staging matches sans any fans in the last leg of......
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to close all educational institutions in the territory until Apr 6 and imposed a health emergency due to the rising threat of......
ISLAMABAD: Confusion persisted over the ongoing Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams being conducted by the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE).Following the decision of......
MUMBAI: The start of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 tournament has been postponed until April 15 as a precautionary measure against the spread of the coronavirus, the Indian cricket board......
DAEGU: Across their foreheads, cheeks and noses, the nurses on the front line of South Korea’s struggle against the coronavirus outbreak wear bandages that have become badges of honour.They apply the......
RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Army Promotion Board on Friday promoted 36 brigadiers to the rank of major general.A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the board held at the General......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s role in the Afghan dispute remains very important as the United States tries to assess if the Taliban will live up to the commitments they made in Doha, says a top US......
FRANKFURT MAIN: The European Central Bank scrambled on Friday to ease eurozone jitters a day after President Christine Lagarde spectacularly failed to convince financial markets with big-bang......
QUETTA: The Quetta Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Friday called upon the government to order reopening borders with Afghanistan and Iran for trade as importers and exporters have been incurring......
SYDNEY: The fallout from the coronavirus spread across the Pacific on Friday, with Australian travel firms issuing profit warnings and Japanese carriers cutting capacity, while US airlines rushed to......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided in principle to evolve an automated system for payment of customs rebate and drawback of local taxes and levy (DLTL) under the export package.The automation......
KARACHI: After suffering massive losses this week the rupee on Friday made a partial recovery of Rs2.6 to Rs156.7 against the US dollar in the interbank market.However, no movement was recorded in......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a number of paan masala producers from Sindh to assail before the top judiciary the Oct 3 Sindh High Court (SHC) directive for registeration of cases......
QUETTA: Pilgrims and other people, who had completed their 14-day stay in quarantine in Taftan after returning from Iran, were allowed to leave the border town and go home.Over 1,800 people —......
KARACHI: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday reiterated the importance of uplifting Karachi’s infrastructure and linking ports with the city’s communications infrastructure, which he believed would......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has decided to investigate a complaint against Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Zafar Mirza and the Drug Regulatory......
SRINAGAR: Indian authorities on Friday released an influential Kashmiri lawmaker who had been held for seven months after New Delhi stripped India-held Jammu and Kashmir of its semi-autonomy and......
KARACHI: While Karachi’s National Stadium wore a deserted look during the HBL Pakistan Super League match on Friday, Peshawar Zalmi’s hopes of making through to the semi-finals hung in the balance......
LANDI KOTAL: The health and immigration authorities at the Torkham border deported at least six Afghans to their country after they were found having symptoms of coronavirus during scanning on......
• Fortnight closure of borders with Iran, Afghanistan from 16th • International flight operations restricted to three airports • All educational institutions shut till April 5 • Ministry of food......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday demanded immediate convening of a joint session of parliament for a briefing on the coronavirus issue.The demand was made at a......
TOKYO: Japan on Friday said it was determined to hold a “safe and secure” Tokyo Olympics on schedule, after US President Donald Trump suggested a one year delay because of the coronavirus......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on Friday to combine America’s public and private resources to fight coronavirus and also launched a new Google site to screen......
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Friday paid a surprise visit to the coronavirus management centre at Rawalpindi Institute of Urology (RIU) and inspected arrangements made for......
THE powerful loudspeakers of my neighbourhood mosque have just announced a death. The introductory words never change: “Hazraat, aik zaroori ailaan sunyeh” (respectable sirs, hear now an important......
STATUS QUO has gone viral.Pakistan is slowly and grudgingly waking up to a pandemic. Soon we shall be told by the governments to do this that and the other, or not do it. The state and its minions......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday sought details of steps taken by the government to fight coronavirus and the government’s response to redress grievances of Pakistanis stranded in......
LET’S not kid ourselves: ‘mera jism, meri marzi’ (my body, my choice) is not a mere slogan. It is a call to arms.Those thugs who stoned the women participating in the Aurat March in Islamabad......
ISLAMABAD: After assessing situation at the stock market in Karachi on Friday, senior officials of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) observed that its risk management system......
PARIS: Countries across the globe went on heightened virus alert on Friday, sealing borders and cancelling cultural and sporting events in a frenzied bid to slow the ballooning pandemic.Financial......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was informed on Friday that after removal of the names of over 800,000 “ineligible” beneficiaries from the list of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) over......
INDIA’S very largely free and fair electoral process was once the envy of the democratic world. This was due to the independence and integrity of the monitor of polls, the Election Commission of......
