ISLAMABAD: Administering of the coronavirus vaccine is not only halal but also the need of the hour, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Ashrafi, Special Representative of the Prime Minister for Interfaith Harmony, said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference here, Hafiz Ashrafi said that Darul Iftaa Pakistan had issued a decree in support of vaccination against the coronavirus disease. “We have already …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) to entertain, in accordance with eligibility criteria, an application of a transgender person for the examination being held to appoint Urdu lecturers. Justice Faisal Zaman Khan passed the order on a petition of Fayazullah, a transgender person, against rejection of his application for the examination and …

ISLAMABAD: Former adviser on aviation in ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s government Shujaat Azeem on Wednesday rejected as baseless the allegations levelled by Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar about kickbacks in the leasing of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft that had recently been seized in Malaysia. The ex-adviser, when contacted, said he was in charge of the aviation division but the …

ISLAMABAD: The Islam­abad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday confirmed the bail of former president Asif Ali Zardari in a case pertaining to suspicious transactions from Bahria Town accounts to fake bank accounts. A division bench comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani granted the post-arrest bail on medical grounds after the commission, which had been constituted last month …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Athar Minallah on Wednesday observed that the matter related to issuance of production order of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) stalwart Khawaja Mohammad Asif would be decided in the parliament. The IHC chief justice passed this observation while hearing the petition of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Rana Tanveer Hussain, seeking implementation …

ISLAMABAD: Investigators are making efforts to identify the man who was driving the Lexus, which hit a car on Srinagar Highway, killing four people on Monday night, sources told Dawn on Wednesday. Police, however, released the driver of the vehicle as he was not nominated in the case. Officers of the capital police told Dawn that the injured car passenger, Mujeebur Rehman, had actually …

The Chinese Sinopharm vaccine for Covid-19, which started being administered in Pakistan this week, is not recommended for people older than 60 years, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, he said the government’s expert committee while considering the preliminary analysis of Sinopharm data had recommended that the …

GUJRAT: Prime Minister Imran Khan has tasked Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi with playing a pivotal role in clinching maximum seats in the Senate from Punjab. The senior PML-Q leader is part of a three-member committee of the ruling coalition in the province. Its other members are Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and Governor Chaudhry Sarwar. The committee will devise …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi strongly criticised the opposition in Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly for not allowing discussion on the 26th constitutional amendment bill seeking open balloting in the Senate elections to progress forward. The government had presented the bill in the lower house yesterday amidst a ruckus created by the opposition which termed the tabling of the bill a …

The new vaccination hub in Grand Prairie is up and running, with officials already calling for more vaccines to be sent after the site went through its entire 500 dose allocation on the first day. The new site, operated in a partnership with Irving, opened Wednesday morning at The Theatre at Grand Prairie, 1001 Performance Place. The hub received an initial …