Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that the province of Sindh is not a place for humans to live with decency. Addressing a press conference at the National Press Club on Thursday, he said the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had been in power in Sindh for the last 13 years, but “the corrupt and biased …

RAWALPINDI: Due to the heavy snowfall in Murree, tourists were seen stranded on roads in the hilly area. Assistant Commissioner Mohammad Omar Maqbool visited various roads and squares of the city, including Jhika Gali Chowk, and reviewed the flow of traffic. He encouraged traffic wardens on duty, saying despite heavy snowfall they were discharging their duties with responsibly. He said …

LAHORE: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior and Accountability Shehzad Akbar has directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to play its effective role in achieving the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) targets ahead of its forthcoming meeting in March/April. During his visit to the FIA provincial headquarters here on Thursday, he held a meeting with the additional director general (north) and …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday postponed the framing of charges in a contempt of court case against former Gilgit-Baltistan chief justice Rana Shamim, Jang Group owner Mir Shakeelur Rehman and senior journalists Ansar Abbasi and Aamir Ghauri on Friday in connection with a news report about an affidavit that accused former chief justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar of trying to …

ISLAMABAD: The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday ended its meeting in protest after the panel came to know that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal would not be attending it as he had asked a senior official to represent him with the approval of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The members, who had come …

ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday announced its advisory councils for Punjab, Sindh and other areas. The announcement was made by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry at a press conference after a meeting of the party’s Central Executive Committee. Except for Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the PTI had announced its executive and advisory boards in Punjab …

ISLAMABAD: The positivity rate of the twin cities has more than doubled in the last four days as fresh cases of the new Covid-19 variant continue to spread, and the administrations of both cities are considering smart lockdowns to curb the transmission of the virus. According to the Islamabad District Health Officer (DHO) Zaeem Zia – where 36 more people …

LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday announced that PPP would start its long march on Islamabad against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government on Feb 27. “The deteriorating economic conditions have worried people, who are fed up of the incompetent and inept rulers and want to get rid of them at the earliest. Therefore, we have decided to …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported 1,085 COVID-19 cases in a single day, its highest tally in two months, as authorities warned of a fifth wave of infections and made preparations to try to contain the fast-spreading Omicron variant. According to the latest figures shared by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), a total of 46,585 samples were tested during this …

KARACHI: In an alarming trend, the positivity ratio of COVID-19 cases in Karachi has reached beyond nine percent, the provincial health department said on Thursday amid concerns over rising cases of Omicron variant. According to the Sindh health department, the positivity ratio has reached 9.23 percent, a day after it was reported at 8.91 percent, showing an alarming increase of …