Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broa­dcasting Senator Shibli Faraz has said the opposition is trying to destabilise the country with its narrative only to benefit the enemies. Addressing a press conference on Saturday, he said the opposition leaders had stooped too low only to protect their personal interests by directly attacking the institutions with the aim of creating divisions among …

ISLAMABAD: Five more streets in F-6, F-10 and I-10 have been sealed to limit the spread of Covid-19. According to an order issued by the office of the deputy commissioner, Street 18 in F-6, Street 1 in F-6/3, Street 53 in F-6/4, Street 55 in F-10/4 and Gali 17 in I-10/2 have been locked down. Exemptions to the order include …

KASUR: Punjab wild life department staffers from Lahore finally captured the lioness that had escaped from a breeding farm on Ganda Singh Road while she was being shifted from one cage to another on the night between Thursday and Friday. After escaping from the breeding farm, the lioness had entered an adjoining poultry farm and hid herself on the premises. …

LAHORE: An accountability court on Saturday issued show- cause notices to the inspector general of prisons, capital city police officer of Lahore and SP headquarters as Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz was not brought to the court to attend proceedings against him in Ramzan Sugar Mills reference. At the outset of the hearing, Presiding Judge Amjad Nazir …

ISLAMABAD: One third of the journalists facing legal cases filed mainly by the Pakistani state are at risk of being charged under the Anti-Terrorism Law, a research study has found. Print media practitioners are twice as likely to be the target of legal action that television media practitioners, and Sindh is the most dangerous region for journalists in Pakistan when …

ISLAMABAD: For the first time since the end of July, the number of coronavirus cases being reported on a daily basis has surpassed the 1,000 mark, while active cases have also doubled in one and a half months with around 100 patients requiring ventilators at present. In view of the deteriorating situation, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on …

ISLAMABAD: The government has agreed to talks with traders’ leaders to address their demand to expel the French ambassador from Pakistan. Traders and a number of religious groups protested in the capital on Friday against the publication of defamatory caricatures in France. Security measures were in place at Khayaban-i-Suharwardy to intercept the protesters as they headed towards the Embassy of …

KARACHI: The Indus Hospital (TIH) — one of the five sites in Pakistan selected for the multi-country phase-III clinical trial of a potential Covid-19 vaccine — has seen a positive public response to the recent low-key launch of the trial, raising the hope that the effort would meet its target. Till Saturday — day 18 of the trial — over …

QUETTA: Retired Lt Gen Abdul Qadir Baloch, who heads the Balochistan chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has developed serious differences with the central leadership of the party for not inviting former chief minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri to the recently held Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) rally in Quetta and over the remarks of former speaker of the National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq. …

Khloe Kardashian is constantly at war with herself over having to co-parent with her ex Tristen Thompson, mostly since it is a “challenging” ordeal. However, at the end of the day, Khloe knows it is something that “pays off” in the end. The reality TV star opened up about the tumultuous co-parenting journey, during her interview on The Ellen Show and …