Pakistan

• 19pc of cases found in educational institutions • NCOC reports 38,348 active patients • PMA says virus more lethal in second wave ISLAMABAD: The highest positivity ratio of the current season was recorded on Monday as Pakistan continues to reel under the impact of Covid-19. According to the data released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the …

Information Minister Shibli Faraz on Tuesday said there were no restrictions in place on former premier Nawaz Sharif, his sons and former finance minister Ishaq Dar barring them from coming to Pakistan to attend the funeral of the PML-N supremo’s mother. Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif’s mother, Begum Shamim Akhtar, passed away in London on November 22. She was in her 90s and …

• People defy ban on Peshawar show despite pandemic, security warning • Fazl asks establishment to stop backing ‘illegitimate’ govt • Maryam leaves venue when learns about grandmother’s death PESHAWAR: In a ren­ewed attack on the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government, the Pak­istan Democratic Movement (PDM) leaders on Sunday sought an end to the ‘puppet rule’, warning that actions and policies …

KARACHI: Expressing his party’s concern over a lack of strategy on the part of government to clear city drains of encroachments, Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal has demanded that people whose houses are being demolished be provided alternative accommodations before the action. He made this demand while speaking at an event on Sunday to announce “hundreds of …

ISLAMABAD: The city managers have developed a new tourist site having a lotus lake near the natural history museum. Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Amer Ali Ahmed on Sunday inaugurated the site which will be known as ‘Family Park’. “The purpose of the facility is to provide a peaceful environment close to nature. The lotus lake will be another attraction …

ISLAMABAD: The city managers have received bids from four consortiums of international town planning firms for the revision of Islamabad’s master plan. Sources in the CDA said after evaluation the financial bids would be opened in about a month to award the contract to the lowest bidder. The master plan was prepared in 1960 and supposed to be revised after …

KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Sunday claimed to have arrested three suspected militants belonging to the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Gulshan-i-Maymar. They said the held suspects were planning attacks on airport, US consulate general and security printing press. A Rangers spokesperson said that the paramilitary force along with police carried out an intelligence-based joint action and detained Yaseen alias …

SWAT: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that the PTI government is the most incompetent one in the history of the country as it has increased the miseries of people manifold. He was addressing a public meeting at Grassy Ground here on Sunday. JI provincial chief Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, Bakhtiar Maani, Abdul Wase, Hamidul Haq, Mohammad Amin and other …

PESHAWAR: The provincial government has ordered the medical teaching institutions to enhance the number of Covid-19 beds on emergency basis as hospitalisation due to coronavirus increased by 100 per cent during the past one week. Health officials said that the number of patients on ventilators had risen by 200 per cent over the last fortnight. “Health minister has instructed the …

NAROWAL: Former federal minister Anwar Aziz Chaudhry passed away at his residence in Lahore on Sunday after a sudden illness. He was 86. Chaudhry was the father of PML-N leader Daniyal Aziz and father-in-law of PML-N MNA Mehnaz Akbar. He began active participation in politics in 1963. In 1973, he became a close associate of the then prime minister Zulfikar …