The speaker of Malaysia’s House rejected interim leader Mahathir Mohamad’s call for a vote next week to chose a new premier, deepening the country’s political turmoil after the ruling alliance collapsed this week. Malaysia’s nine ethnic Malay rulers are to meet on Friday to help resolve the wrangle. Mahathir said on Thursday that King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah failed …

CHAGAI / QUETTA: Spe­cial Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services Dr Zafar Mirza said on Thursday that effective measures were being taken to deal with novel coronavirus in Pakistan. He was talking to journalists during his visit to the Taftan border where he along with federal health secretary Dr Allah Bakhsh Malik and provincial ministers Zahoor Buledi …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Ch Fawad Hussain on Thursday announced that Ramazan was expected to begin in Pakistan from April 25. ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Ch Fawad Hussain on Thursday announced that Ramazan was expected to begin in Pakistan from April 25. Taking to twitter, Fawad Chaudhry said the moon of Ramazan would be …

KARACHI: In second such decision, an anti-harassment ombudsman has found two officers of the Sindh health department guilty of harassing their female colleague. Official sources said on Thursday that the Sindh Ombudsman for the Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplace imposed a fine of Rs100,000 on one accused and stopped for three years the promotion of the other …

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood on Thursday exchanged views on the federal government’s plan to introduce a uniform syllabus designed by the federal education ministry across the country. During a meeting with Mr Mahmood at CM House, the chief minister said designing of school syllabus was a provincial subject after the …

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: With the confirmation of the first coronavirus patient at Pakistan Institute of Medial Sciences (Pims), respiratory masks have disappeared from the markets due to high demand and the decision to allow their export and other personal protection equipment (PPE). A Pakistani citizen tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday and was shifted to the isolation ward of Pims. In a …

QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly witnessed a heated debate on Thursday between the opposition and treasury benches after the former levelled corruption allegations against the coalition government. Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetiran, who is a member of the cabinet headed by Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani, rejected the allegations and described the opposition’s accusations against the government as an attempt aimed …

LAHORE: A poor woman delivered baby in the washroom of a mosque after gynaecologists allegedly denied her treatment at the Jinnah Hospital “for not bringing test reports from a private lab of choice”. Asifa Hammad was twice brought to the Jinnah Hospital but the gynaecologists refused to admit her without having her blood tests done from a ‘specified private laboratory’ …

ISLAMABAD: The accountability court, Islamabad, on Thursday reserved its judgement on the reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the Nandipur power project case. Ruling PTI leader Dr Babar Awan and former law secretary retired Justice Riaz Kiani were acquitted in the case last year by the then accountability court judge Mohammad Arshad Malik. Judge Malik was later …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday directed several state functionaries to respond to a petition seeking contempt proceedings against them for not implementing its orders to try former spokesperson for the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan Ehsanullah Ehsan, who escaped from custody lately. A bench consisting of Justice Ikramullah Khan and Justice Ijaz Anwar issued notices to respondents in the petition asking them …