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QUETTA: A top-level meeting of the provincial government was informed on Thursday that a Pakistan Army medical battalion comprising doctors and other staff had been deployed at Pakistan-Iran border town of Taftan and Hazarganji area to perform medical check-up of all pilgrims and businessmen returning from the neighbouring country to detect symptoms of coronavirus. The Director General of Provincial Disaster …

LAHORE: Regretting ‘unfair’ treatment of religious schools by the government, Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Senator Sirajul Haq has demanded allocation of educational funds for them in the annual budget. Speaking to students of Darul Uloom Mansoora here on Thursday, he said the rulers were bent upon taking full control of religious schools on the alleged dictation of the IMF and western powers. …

ISLAMABAD: A day after the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Thursday asked the government to enforce health emergency and gear up efforts to check the spread of coronavirus in the country. Talking to reporters at the Parliament House building, chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior and PPP leader …

An accountability court in Lahore on Friday granted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) 12-day physical remand of Jang Group’s Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakilur Rahman in a property case. The court had originally granted NAB an 11-day physical remand but extended it by a day when Rahman’s counsel Aitizaz Ahsan said that he would not be available for proceedings on March 24. …

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Friday said “important decisions” for the protection of the people will be taken during a special meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) regarding coronavirus later today. In a tweet, the premier’s special assistant said Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair the meeting which the …

The National Assembly on Friday cut its session short by a week and prorogued proceedings due to concerns raised by treasury and opposition members over coronavirus. When the session had begun on March 9, the House Business Advisory Committee had decided that the assembly was to remain in session till March 20. Earlier in the day, Sindh confirmed its first “secondary contact case”, …

Oil prices fell on Thursday following surprise travel restrictions imposed by United States President Donald Trump in an attempt to halt the spread of coronavirus after the World Health Organisation described the outbreak as a pandemic. The slump in oil is being compounded by the threat of a flood of cheap supply after Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates said they would …

Shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange took a hammering once again on Thursday, with the benchmark KSE-100 index closing 1,707 points or 4.53 per cent down, mimicking the trajectory of global financial markets after the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and the United States banned travel from Europe. Earlier today, trading was halted just days after …

LAHORE: Karachi Kings’ all-rounder Aamer Yamin has been ruled out of the HBL PSL due to a hamstring injury. He will be replaced by Waqas Maqsood, it was announced by the Pakistan Cricket Board here on Wednesday. Aamer, 29, sustained the injury while bowling during his side’s fixture against Lahore Qalandars on Sunday. He represented the Kings in three matches …

A report published by the The New York Times on Thursday said that recent evidence suggests that New Delhi police “concertedly moved against Muslims” and “actively helped Hindu mobs” that targeted Muslims and their homes during the deadly riots that gripped the Indian capital last month. At least 50 people were killed in Delhi’s worst communcal violence in decades, over two-thirds of …