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ISLAMABAD: The novel coronavirus has claimed the lives of three media persons in the country and infected 156 others, according to a report released by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Wednesday. The report highlights that camera journalists and photojournalists have been the biggest sufferers since the outbreak of Covid-19. The report, compiled by Zulfiqar Ali Mehto who …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said a large number of developing countries did not have fiscal space to deal with the economic fallout of the Covid-19 outbreak and called for debt relief to deal with the situation. Addressing the “Covid Action Platform” hosted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) through video link, he said G-20 countries were coming …

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Thursday urged people to celebrate the upcoming Eidul Fitr in a “simple way” as the number of Covid-19 cases in the province neared 20,000. Speaking at a press conference in Karachi, Shah asked people not to travel to their villages for Eid so the spread of the virus could be contained. He said …

KARACHI: There was some semblance of the ‘old normal’ on Tuesday morning as shopping malls in the city reopened after a couple of months’ lockdown break. A visit to a known mall in Clifton proved to be an encouraging experience. (It’s early days, mind you.) The SOPs were followed to a great extent, and one had to praise the mall’s …

ISLAMABAD: The government seems to be determined to place the name of Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif on the no-fly list “so that he could not escape and face fresh corruption cases being made against him”. “It is under consideration, and it should happen that the name of Shahbaz Sharif should be …

MIRAMSHAH: The Bannu regional police officer has constituted a four-member joint investigation team for probing the honour killing of two teenage girls, whose ‘objectionable’ video went viral lately. The police have so far arrested four suspects, including the video recorder and the one, released on social media. North Waziristan district police officer Shafiullah Gandapur will supervise the JIT, whose members …

KARACHI: The Sindh government has revised the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for funerals of Covid-19 patients relaxing the tough conditions and allowing normal rituals. On the recommendations of health experts, “very much normal” rituals have been restored through the revised SOPs issued by the provincial health department. However, people have been advised to strictly adhere to the precautions, explained in …

A PTI member of the Punjab Assembly (MPA) from Gujranwala, Shaheen Raza, passed away on Wednesday at Lahore’s Mayo Hospital after having tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Raza was shifted to the isolation ward of Mayo Hospital, Lahore, on Monday and was put on a ventilator after her condition deteriorated. On Saturday night, Raza was quarantined at DHQ hospital …

KARACHI: In an apparent reaction to Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed’s directions on Monday that shopping malls across the country be reopened, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari expressed his hopes that the superior judiciary would give judgements “based on facts and medical realities”. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, on the other hand, welcoming the decision, demanded that the Sindh government allow …

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday sentenced two men, said to be associated with the militant Islamic State group, to death in a case pertaining to the 2017 suicide blast at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan that killed around 70 people and wounded dozens of others. The judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court-XVI found Nadir Ali and Furqan guilty of …