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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has called upon the government to come up with an action plan to effectively check the threat of famine in the country posed by locusts. “Farmers across Pakistan are suffering the worst plague of locusts in recent history which will cause a loss of Rs600 billion to Pakistani economy,” PPP parliamentary leader in the …

PPP has filed a complaint with the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing against Cynthia D Ritchie, a blogger from the US who has based herself in Pakistan, for “hateful comments and slander” against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. PPP Islamabad President Advocate Shakeel Abbasi filed the application on Thursday against Ritchie for posting on Twitter “very derogatory and slanderous remarks” about …

ISLAMABAD: As the country registered thousands of new Covid-19 patients and witnessed many deaths from the virus on Thursday, the government expressed “satisfaction” over the situation in hospitals, saying it has no immediate plan to go for a stricter lockdown. He said the participants and the prime minister were updated on the facts and figures of coronavirus patients and the …

ISLAMABAD: Two characters involved in Judge Arshad Malik video scam have been tagged by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) as ‘most wanted terrorists’. A list of high-profile terrorists maintained by the FIA, a copy of which is available with Dawn, includes the names of the two accused in the judge video scandal — Nasir Mehmood, a resident of Rawalpindi, and …

KARACHI: Amid concerns being raised by families who are yet to get bodies of their loved ones, authorities said on Wednesday that remains of six victims of the Pakistan International Airline’s plane crash tragedy had been identified through DNA tests. They said the bodies would be handed over to relatives as soon as the legal process was completed. Speaking to Dawn, a health …

KARACHI: Experts belonging to Airbus continued to examine and collect evidence for the second day on Wednesday along with official investigators of the Air­craft Accident and Investi­gation Board (AAIB) about last week’s crash of a Pakistan International Airlines airliner. However, the investigators were still looking for the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the A320 aircraft carrying 99 passengers and crewmembers …

Senior journalist Fakhruddin Syed passed away due to the coronavirus, early on Thursday morning at Peshawar’s Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC). HMC spokesperson Toueed Zulfiqar, while confirming the news, said the journalist had been in home isolation after testing positive for the virus but was shifted to the hospital five days ago after his condition worsened. He added that Syed was …

The intelligence services are deploying secretive surveillance technology normally used to locate militants to instead track coronavirus patients and the people they come into contact with. In a programme publicly touted by Prime Minister Imran Khan, the government has turned to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for help in tackling the virus, which still is spreading at an accelerating rate across …

FAISALABAD: The district administration has got arrested a bridegroom and about a dozen guests on charges of arranging a wedding ceremony at a marquee on Canal Road despite a ban by the Punjab government. On a tip-off, City Assistant Commissioner Umer Maqbool raided the Royal Marquee on Monday night on Canal Road where the wedding ceremony of Naveed Akram was …

ISLAMABAD: Apart from coronavirus pandemic, two more threats — locust attack and possible flooding — are looming over Pakis­tan and the authorities have been working on measures to cou­nter all of them, said Nat­ional Disaster Manage­ment Authority (NDMA) Cha­­irman Lt Gen Moham­mad Afzal on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference, the NDMA chief said that operations against locusts had already been …