Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) retired Justice Javed Iqbal expressed satisfaction over a monthly report of a Combined Investigation Team (CIT) formed to investigate the sugar scam on Wednesday and asked the officials concerned to complete the investigation in an impartial, transparent, and professional manner soon. Reviewing the progress made by CIT in their probe, the NAB chief asked …

PESHAWAR: Around 350 volunteers of the Tiger Force having affiliation with the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and belonging to 35 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will attend convention in Islamabad on Oct 17 at the government’s expenses, sources said. The sources said the office of the chief secretary had directed all deputy commissioners to send 10 members of the Corona Tiger Force …

Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar has urged the nation to take standard operating procedures (SOPs) for curbing the spread of the coronavirus seriously once again in the face of a rising positivity rate. “National positivity of Covid cases was 2.37 per cent. This is the highest positivity rate in more than 50 days. The last time this level …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday decided to refer to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) a case pertaining to the alleged misuse of public funds in the election campaign of Kulsoom Nawaz, the late wife of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) supreme leader Nawaz Sharif, in the 2017 by-poll for NA-120 seat. During …

LAHORE: Violation of Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) provided a ‘good justification’ to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government to book over 400 workers of opposition parties, mainly the PML-N, in different parts of Punjab on Wednesday ahead of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) first public show on Oct 16 in Gujranwala. The PML-N alleged on Wednesday that Punjab police also took scores of …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday called Pakistan’s re-election to the United Nations Human Rights Council an “important diplomatic achievement”, Radio Pakistan reported. In a statement, he said that Pakistan was supported by every region in its re-election while influential and important countries had also backed the country’s bid. He added that the vote vouched for Pakistan’s performance in the council over the …

g PESHAWAR: Coronavirus has infected lesser number of women and caused lesser deaths among them than men since the outbreak of the pandemic in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, says a report by World Health Organisation. The health experts said that women had less exposure to gatherings than men due to which they didn’t contract the infection more than males. The report of …

KARACHI: Patients reporting at the outpatient departments (OPDs) of public sector hospitals on Tuesday in parts of Sindh had to return home without getting treatment as doctors and paramedical staff boycotted health services in protest, demanding restoration of Covid-19 health risk allowance. The healthcare providers were protesting on a strike call given by the Grand Health Alliance Sindh which is …

k MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) cabinet on Tuesday accorded approval to amendments in a law to give protection to the lawful ownership of land. Under the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2020, harsh punishment was proposed for the offence of illegal occupation of private or crown land and a mechanism was fixed for early disposal of such cases. …

ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday asked all the chief secretaries of provinces and the chief commissioner of Islamabad to formulate fresh modalities/SOPs based on guidelines issued by it to contain the spread of Covid-19. The NCOC issued the guidelines for public gathering (to minimise wedding and sports activities) as the number of positive cases kept …