Many Covid-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20 per cent of those infected with the coronavirus are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days. Anxiety, depression and insomnia were most common among recovered Covid-19 patients in the study who developed mental health problems, …

ISLAMABAD: With polio cases are on the rise within the country, a large number of union council polio officers (UCPO) protested outside the World Health Organisation (WHO) office, demanding an extension in the contracts of 1,800 officers. WHO Country Head Dr Palitha Mahipala rushed back to Islamabad from Peshawar to assure the protesters he will take up their case, and …

Armenia and Azerbaijan announced an agreement early Tuesday to halt fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan under a pact signed with Russia that calls for deployment of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers and territorial concessions. Nagorno-Karabakh has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a 1994 truce ended a separatist war in which an estimated …

HARIPUR: District police officer, Haripur, Kashif Zulfiqar has claimed that the killers of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Malik Tahir Iqbal would soon be arrested as the police had closed in on suspects identified during investigations conducted in the case on scientific lines. He was speaking during an open kutcheri held in Ghazi here the other day. Some of the participants had questioned the …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police department has claimed a ‘significant’ decrease in the incidents of extortion, targeted killing and kidnapping for ransom across the province during the last 10 months. It also insisted that kidnapping for ransom had been eliminated from the province, said a statement issued here on Monday. The statement said inspector general of police Dr Sanaullah Abbasi …

ISLAMABAD: A college student was booked by the capital police for allegedly using derogatory remarks about a companion of the Prophet (Peace be upon him), it is learnt on Monday. The case was registered at the Shalimar police station on the complaint of a member of the teaching staff on charges of the PPC’s section 295-A (Deliberate and malicious acts …

ISLAMABAD: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif is arriving here on Tuesday (today) on a two-day visit for talks on regional issues in addition to a review of bilateral ties. Mr Zarif is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Imran Khan, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser and Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa during his stay in …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Monday assured the Indian High Commission’s lawyer of fair trial of convicted spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and suggested a third consular access in order to implement the International Court of Justice’s directive for review and reconsideration of conviction. A three-judge IHC bench comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah, Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb …

LAHORE: The federal government has directed all the provinces to commence Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) for diagnosis of Covid-19. It has also directed the provincial governments to make procurement of the World Health Organization-approved RAT kits to start process with effect from Nov 15 stating that ‘the RAT has certain advantages over RT-PCR, such as relatively low cost and return …

A crucial meeting of parliamentary leaders in the National Assembly and Senate called by NA Speaker Asad Qaiser for Wednesday (tomorrow) in which they were to be briefed by “military officials on the current issues of national security” was cancelled on Tuesday amid the opposition’s boycott. “The session of parliamentary leaders in the National Assembly and Senate under National Assembly …