LONDON: Charity donations accepted by Britain’s Prince Charles were handled correctly, his office said after a newspaper reported that he received 3 million euros ($3.2 million) in cash from a former Qatari prime minister, some of it in shopping bags. The Sunday Times said that Charles accepted three lots of cash that were given to him personally by Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim …

The Foreign Office (FO) on Monday confirmed that a member of the five-nation summit BRICS “blocked Pakistan’s participation” in a dialogue for non-member states held virtually on the sidelines of the event last week. The BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) brings together five of the largest developing countries in the world, representing 41 per cent of the global population, 24pc of the …

Troops in Sri Lanka handed tokens on Monday to people queueing for petrol amid a severe fuel shortage in the nation battling its worst economic crisis in seven decades, while schools shut in Colombo and public employees were asked to work from home. With its foreign exchange reserves at a record low, the island of 22 million is struggling to …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Human Rights Riaz Pirzada claimed that some of the “missing persons” had been “engaged” by detained Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav or by neighbouring countries. The minister made the claim during an exclusive interview with DawnNews aired on Sunday night. “Some of these (missing persons) have been killed in terrorist activities ….. who were engaged by Kulbhushan Jadhav or …

KARACHI: The ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) emerged with the highest number of winning candidates on Sunday in the first phase of Sindh’s local government elections, unanimously rejected by the opposition parties and marred by firing, scuffles and deaths. At least two people were killed and several others were injured on the polling day, which also saw the kidnapping of polling staff members …

ISLAMABAD: While former prime minister Imran Khan has alleged that attempts were being made to assassinate him or stop him from speaking against the ruling elite, staff at his Banigala residence on Saturday night caught a man red-handed while installing a spy device in his bedroom. The chief of staff of the former premier, Dr Shahbaz Gill, handed over the …

ISLAMABAD: Retired Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam, former head of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), remained in the media spotlight on Sunday after reports surfaced that he had apparently waded into the political sphere and ‘joined’ a political party. However, Gen Islam has not commented on these reports so far. On Sunday, journalist Saleem Safi posted a picture of the former DG ISI …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday formally launched its by-election campaign in Punjab with party chairman Imran Khan making whirlwind visits to four constituencies of Lahore to motivate workers to teach ‘turncoats’ a lesson with a humiliating defeat. The PTI has pitched four party diehards against dissidents (now PML-N candidates), who ditched the party at a crucial juncture of …

ISLAMABAD: The second Sub-National Immunisation Days (SNIDs) campaign of 2022 will begin on Monday (today) aiming to vaccinate 12.6 million children. The campaign will start in all four provinces, covering 25 very high-risk districts for polio, to vaccinate children under the age of five. Over 100,000 trained health workers will be engaged in the drive to inoculate children at their …

Karachi’s Covid-19 positivity rate on Monday crossed 22 per cent, the highest in the country, amid concerns of a surge in cases. According to data shared by the National Institute of Health (NIH), the positivity rate in the metropolitan city was recorded as 22.65pc over the last 24 hours. Muzaffarabad came in second with a positivity rate of 6.25pc, followed …