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ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan said on Tuesday that the black box of Airbus 320 that crashed in Karachi had been found within 24 hours, but efforts were under way to recover the cockpit voice recorder. The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane, with 99 people on board, crashed in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in …

LAHORE: The Covid-19 pandemic may lead to a surge in the number of critically-ill patients and shortage of ventilators in the intensive care units of teaching hospitals in Punjab in the coming weeks. The medical and health experts say the situation is not as alarming as is being portrayed as around 30-40 per cent ventilators are occupied in Punjab. According …

Two policemen were killed on Tuesday night after unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in the Chowrangi No. 26 area of Turnol in Islamabad. The policemen were identified as Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Mohsin Zafar and Head Constable Sajjad. An Islamabad police spokesperson said Inspector General (IG) Mohammad Amir Zulfiqar Khan had taken notice of the incident. He said two teams …

KARACHI: The city administration finalised a list of the loss of property caused by the May 22 plane crash in the Jinnah Garden area of Model Colony, finding 18 houses partially damaged and two completely damaged as the federal government on Tuesday vowed to bear all financial burden of the compensation to the affected families. A committee formed by Karachi Commissioner Iftikhar …

KARACHI: The Sindh government denied speculations that the provincial government had decided to impose a province-wide curfew as COVID-19 cases continue to surge, on Monday. The advisor to the chief minister and Sindh government spokesperson rubbished rumours on social media that the provincial government had decided to impose a curfew in a bid to contain the coronavirus from spreading faster …

PARIS: The team of renowned plane manufacturing company, Airbus, has arrived in Pakistan to investigate the recent crash of one of its own manufactured aircraft in Karachi. The team of technical advisers left for Pakistan on board special flight AEB1888 of Airbus A330 from French city, Toulouse. The team arrived in the country on Tuesday morning. The team members will …

MULTAN/KANDHKOT/MUZAFFARGARH: Locusts dealt a severe blow to mango, cotton and other crops on Monday, sparking fears of a looming food shortage in case the government fails to act soon. The locust attack took place in different areas of Multan, Rajanpur, district Muzaffargarh and Kandhkot. Mango, cotton crops and rice saplings were severely damaged by the attack. In Multan, locusts attacked …

KARACHI: Five hundred and seventy-three new COVID-19 cases emerged in Sindh over the past 24 hours, said Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday. According to a statement from the chief minister, 2,327 samples were tested for the virus over the past 24 hours out of which 573 results came back positive at 24.6%. The government has tested 161628 samples …

Adviser to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister on Information Ajmal Wazir has warned that the provincial government may have to enforce a lockdown again if the number of COVID-19 cases in the province surge. “KP’s health system is fighting the coronavirus better,” Wazir told media during his visit to the Hayatabad Medical Complex in Peshawar. He also thanked God that the …

Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) claimed on Monday to have captured another “Pakistani spy pigeon” and handed it over to police in Indian occupied Kashmir, NDTV reported. The pigeon, “with a prominent pink patch and a tag on its leg”, was logged at the police station as a “suspected Pakistani spy”, said NDTV. The report said that the pigeon is being suspected of …