Pakistan

The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) announced on Tuesday that all air passengers, including those on incoming and outgoing international flights, would need to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by Sep 30. In its review of the measures put in place to contain the spread of the coronavirus, particularly in view of the spread of the Delta variant, planning …

PESHAWAR: Twenty-five more persons died and 783 Covid-19 patients were detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday amid door-to-door vaccination in Peshawar division to prevent the rapid transmission of the virus. Peshawar division is home to most coronavirus-related deaths and incidence as compared to the other six divisions in the province. The province’s tally of deaths due to the virus reached …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Mus­lim League-Nawaz (PML-N) says it is ready to support a no-confidence motion to topple the government provided the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) comes up with a workable proposal. “We’re ready to support the PPP’s idea for dislodging the PTI government through a no-confidence motion but it should put forward a workable proposal for this purpose,” PML-N secretary …

RAWALPINDI: A sanitation worker of the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) was caught hiding on a special plane en route to the Netherlands at the Islamabad International Airport (IIA). He was later sent to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Anti-Human Trafficking Cell (AHTC) for further investigation. The aircraft was carrying staff of the Dutch embassy from Kabul to the Netherlands. …

KARACHI: Dr Mahnoor Farzand, a flight lieutenant in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), died of Covid-19 early on Sunday morning, taking the tally of doctors falling victim to coronavirus so far in Sindh to 77. Since Feb last year, 220 doctors in the country have died of coronavirus. According to Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Dr Mahnoor was eight months pregnant …

ISLAMABAD: Religious scholars belonging to various schools of thought have condemned the rape of a girl in a seminary in Rawalpindi and demanded that perpetrators of such heinous crimes should be given punishment in public through speedy trial. In a joint declaration issued after attending a consultative meeting held under the aegis of the Pakistan Ulema Council on Sunday, they …

ISLAMABAD / KARACHI: As the number of hospitalised Covid-19 patients has increased by almost three folds in the past 45 days, the Sindh government has decided that educational institutes in the province will remain closed till their staff is vaccinated. Meanwhile, a consignment of two million doses of vaccine reached Pakistan from China on Sunday. While 3,842 were infected with …

ISLAMABAD: The federal capital remains the only city out of the 25 major cities having a population of one million to have surpassed the 40pc vaccinated population target set by the government to be achieved by Aug 31. According to data of the district administration, 61pc citizens of Islamabad are either partially or fully inoculated. On the other hand, 321 …

Incidents of violence targetting women are not ‘isolated’ in Pakistan as many blindly argue but the last one month has been particularly distressing with multiple stories coming to the fore. Reacting to one such story shared by journalist Sabin Agha on Twitter, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari called for banning single men from public spaces. “Another harrowing experience – witnessed by police …

Chung Police registered on Monday a first information report (FIR) against a rickshaw driver and another man for gang-raping a woman and her teenage daughter on Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Avenue in Lahore the previous day. The FIR was registered on the woman’s complaint under section 376 (punishment for rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code. According to the FIR, a …