yas LAHORE: Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid has said all the appeals made to the opposition parties to avoid public gatherings have fallen on deaf ears and now the government is all set to establish its writ to save people’s lives when coronavirus is raging in major cities yet again. Dr Rashid said non-compliance with coronavirus standard operating procedures …

shah LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif has called for a national dialogue among political forces to steer “the country out of the present crisis”. “Socio-economic conditions in the country have worsened too much and can only be improved through collective efforts. There is a dire need for a national dialogue,” he said while talking to reporters who …

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Monday left her residence in Lahore to attend Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) rally in Multan, where the district administration and opposition workers have been at odds over the holding of the public event at a time when the incidence of coronavirus is rising. Speaking to the media prior to her departure, she said she would …

QUETTA: No clue was found on Sunday of missing Prof Dr Liaquat Sani, the head of Brahvi Department of Balochistan University, who was kidnapped on Saturday. Some unidentified armed men kidnapped Dr Sani along with two other teachers of Balochistan University, when they were traveling to Khuzdar for inspection of an examination centre as members of the vigilance committee of …

ISLAMABAD: Five major cities — Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Peshawar and Karachi — contribute 70 per cent of coronavirus cases in Pakistan, according to the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) data released on Sunday. A meeting of the NCOC was informed that Mirpur (Azad Jammu and Kashmir), Hyderabad, Karachi, Rawalpindi and Peshawar were among the top cities with persistently rising …

HOUSTON, Texas — A photo of a Houston doctor has gone viral after it showed him hugging and comforting a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit on Thanksgiving. The photo of Dr. Joseph Varon and the patient was taken in the ICU at United Memorial Medical Center.   Health officials and city leaders have repeatedly urged now that we’re in the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The body of a missing 26-year-old woman has been found, her family said on Sunday. Alexis Sharkey went missing on Friday, according to her mother, Stacey Robinault. In a Facebook post published by Robinault, she wrote, “It’s with deeply broken hearts that Mike and I want to let you all know that Lexi’s body has been …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A woman’s body found in the trunk of a car following a brief chase that ended Saturday morning in downtown Beaumont has been linked to a house in Houston. Investigators received a search warrant and entered the house located in the 4100 block of Maggie Street in the Sunnyside neighborhood Sunday morning. On Saturday, a DPS …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man died after falling from a ladder and down into a ship cargo hold at the Port of Houston, officials said. It happened around 12 p.m. on Sunday. The Houston Fire Department wrote in a tweet earlier that firefighters were performing an active rescue in a ship cargo hold.   The man was rushed to …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The TSA reported more than one million people traveled by plane the day before Thanksgiving nationwide, and thousands more flew home after the holiday. Augusto Bernal, spokesperson for the Houston Airport System, said Houston airports anticipated about 800,000 travelers leaving and arriving to Houston between Nov. 20 and Nov. 30 for the Thanksgiving holiday. That’s roughly about half …