A citizen journalist who was reporting from Wuhan — the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak — allegedly went missing last week, CNN reported on Monday quoting his friends and family. According to CNN, Chen Qiushi had arrived in Wuhan on January 24 from where he uploaded videos online of what he saw during visits to “overflowing hospitals, funeral parlours and makeshift isolation wards”. The …

A polio vaccination drive will be carried out in Karachi starting February 10 and will go on till the 16th of the month, an official at the National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio told Dawn.com. The drive will be conducted in all six districts of Karachi and will target children less than five years of age. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the …

Looks like the legal battle over The Legend of Maula Jatt has finally come to an end. Muttaqi Sarwar, the son of Muhammad Sarwar Bhatti, who produced the hit 1979 film starring Sultan Rahi and Mustafa Qureshi has been claiming for a while now that the upcoming Maula Jatt flick directed by Bilal Lashari and produced by Ammara Hikmet is being marketed in violation …

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change has decided to recycle the plastic bags it has confiscated since banning them in the capital into waste bins, flowerpots and even furniture. Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Saleem told Dawn on Sunday: “It is nothing new. Furniture and other home products made from recycled plastic bottles and other kinds of plastics are already available in …

KARACHI: The Sindh police are set to appoint more than 18,000 policemen — said to be the highest number of recruitment in recent years — in a move to enhance the manpower and improve the policeman-population ratio, which has remained abysmally low in the region for the past several years, officials said. Of the total posts, 6,000 plus openings are …

GWADAR: Former chief minister of Balochistan Dr Abdul Malik Baloch believes that federal and provincial governments should prioritise the inclusion of Balochistan’s local communities in all projects being executed under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). “Their interests and identities need to be protected through legislation for economically sustainable and socially acceptable development,” he said, according to a press release. Addressing …

The Lahore High Court (LHC) issued a stay order against the turning of former finance minister Ishaq Dar’s house into a shelter home in a hearing on Monday. Justice Shahid Bilal Hasan also directed the provincial government to submit a response within 10 days. According to petitioner Tabassum Ishaq Dar, wife of the former minister, the decision to turn Dar’s residence into …

LAHORE: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has claimed the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government’s relations with its allies were exemplary and the opposition will have to face humiliation for spreading despair. In a statement issued here on Sunday, he said the opposition’s attempt to create cracks in the ruling coalition would be foiled as it was doing “politics of anarchy”. He also claimed …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday said India’s ruling Bhartya Janata Party (BJP) was facing imminent defeat in New Delhi polls due to premier Narendra Modi’s contentious moves concerning new citizenship laws. Addressing a gathering of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) in Karachi, the foreign minister said since the BJP’s victory in the 2019 general elections …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government is set to hold talks with the Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) leadership to resolve longstanding and pending issues with its coalition partner primarily on development funds and administrative powers. The government’s new three-member committee comprising Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar, Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and federal minister Shafqat Mahmood is set to hold its maiden …