Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Monday allowed booster shots for people over the age of 30 years as Covid-19’s latest strain, Omicron, infects 58,000 people in 95 countries. On the other hand, as a large number of people have been denied travel by several countries because of vaccine “discrimination”, mix-and-match booster vaccine shots have been permitted …

By: Raja Zahid A Khanzada FortWorth Texas:The leader of American Muslim Democratic Caucus Syed Fayyaz Hassan filed his nomination papers with Tarrant County Democratic Party office in Fort Worth for the office of District Clerk. Texas State Representative Terry Meza, Democratic activist and former Dallas Peace Center President Aftab Siddiqui, Deborah Spell Amjad and Nadia Bhular and Muslim Caucus media …

RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa said on Sunday the 17th extraordinary session of OIC foreign ministers was extremely important to channelise international efforts and save Afghanistan from a humanitarian crisis. The army chief said this during a meeting with the Saudi foreign minister. He reiterated that Pakistan valued its historical and brotherly relations with …

KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Sunday announced that it would protest against the recently passed Sindh Local Govern­ment Amendment Bill 2021 and stage a sit-in outside the provincial assembly on Dec 31 in an effort to compel the Pakistan Peoples Party ‘dictatorship’ to reverse the ‘black law’. The announcement came at a JI rally titled ‘Karachi Bachao March’ staged against the LG …

TAXILA: Police arrested a man on Sunday for allegedly making disparaging remarks against a companion of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). The man was arrested after a delegation comprising local religious leaders led by Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s area president Yasir Mehmood Rizvi informed the Wah Saddar police that the suspect had allegedly used derogatory language against one of the …

RAWALPINDI: Police have registered a case under section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and other charges in connection with the alleged police encounter with a gang of suspected robbers which left two suspects dead and three police officials injured in Bahria Town Phase VIII early on Saturday morning. Meanwhile, raids by specialised units of Islamabad police were underway to arrest the …

KARACHI: A passer-by was killed in what police described as an incident of crossfire between armed muggers and police in a Korangi area in the small hours of Sunday morning. However, the victim’s family staged a protest demonstration and submitted an application seeking registration of a murder case against police for allegedly killing 32-year-old passer-by, Wasif Riaz, in Mehran Town. …

KARACHI: Amid growing challenge of pollution, the federal government has hinted at playing its role for gathering and maintaining Karachi’s air quality data, as the city despite being the business capital of the country relies on findings of a foreign station because two such facilities of the Sindh government are non-functional for the past several years, officials and sources said …

ISLAMABAD: Over 5,000 officials of law enforcement agencies and intelligence services have been deputed in the federal capital for the security of 70 delegates from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member and non-member states and international organisations who are expected to leave the capital city on Monday. The delegates, 20 led by foreign ministers, reached Islamabad to attend the …

Former Gilgit-Baltistan chief justice Rana Shamim on Monday submitted in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) his original affidavit — in which he reportedly accuses fellow former jurist Mian Saqib Nisar of collusion to deny bails to top PML-N leadership prior to the 2018 general elections — more than a month after the affidavit was mentioned in an investigative report in The …