Pakistan

SWAT: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that the PTI government is the most incompetent one in the history of the country as it has increased the miseries of people manifold. He was addressing a public meeting at Grassy Ground here on Sunday. JI provincial chief Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, Bakhtiar Maani, Abdul Wase, Hamidul Haq, Mohammad Amin and other …

PESHAWAR: The provincial government has ordered the medical teaching institutions to enhance the number of Covid-19 beds on emergency basis as hospitalisation due to coronavirus increased by 100 per cent during the past one week. Health officials said that the number of patients on ventilators had risen by 200 per cent over the last fortnight. “Health minister has instructed the …

NAROWAL: Former federal minister Anwar Aziz Chaudhry passed away at his residence in Lahore on Sunday after a sudden illness. He was 86. Chaudhry was the father of PML-N leader Daniyal Aziz and father-in-law of PML-N MNA Mehnaz Akbar. He began active participation in politics in 1963. In 1973, he became a close associate of the then prime minister Zulfikar …

KARACHI: The Sindh government finds itself in a fix after its own task force on coronavirus has strongly recommended immediately taking all possible measures that had been taken during the first wave of the pandemic. However, after almost a week since the recommendations were made, the government is yet to move at the same pace with which it had acted …

A meeting of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) was informed on Monday that hospitalisations due to Covid-19 in Pakistan have doubled in the last two weeks while the positivity ratio had increased to 7.46 per cent in the last 24 hours. According to the government’s database for tracking the spread of coronavirus in the country, 2,756 cases were …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader Captain (retd) Safdar Awan has again tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Safdar Awan had returned to Lahore from Gilgit after testing positive for COVID-19 on November 8. He was under treatment at the Sharif Medical City Lahore. After completing the quarantine process, the PML-N stalwart again went for the COVID-19 diagnosis test, …

ISLAMABAD: Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar took to Twitter on Sunday to share data showing how the number of Covid-19 patients on ventilators have gone up over the last 15 days. He tweeted that Peshawar witnessed a 200 per cent increase in Covid-19 patients struggling for life on ventilators, Multan 200pc, Karachi 148pc, Lahore 114pc, and Islamabad 65pc. He …

The Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday summoned the Indian Chargé d’Affaires in Islamabad to reject the “completely groundless allegations” by the Indian government suggesting Pakistan’s involvement in an alleged terror plot in Indian-occupied Kashmir. In a statement, the FO cautioned New Delhi against making any “miscalculation”, saying any attempt by it to implicate Pakistan in a “false-flag operation” will not carry …

LAHORE: A huge crowd gathered on Saturday around the Minar-i-Pakistan for the Namaz-i-Janaza of Khadim Hussain Rizvi, by all accounts the biggest ever funeral prayers in the history of the city. The prayers were led by the late Rizvi’s son, Saad Hussain Rizvi, who was then chosen by the party’s shura to lead the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) that has emerged …

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Hamza Shafqaat has ordered an inquiry into the death of a man in police custody a few days ago. When contacted, Mr Shafqaat that he has directed the subdivisional magistrate to conduct an inquiry within a month and submit a report to his office. The police claimed that the man was arrested for keeping an illegal …