ISLAMABAD: Polio immunisation efforts resumed in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad after seven months on Monday. In Islamabad, the vaccination campaign was inaugurated by Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz, who told the press at Musharraf Colony in G-8 that the vaccine will be administered to around 350,000 children up to the age of five. He said the campaign would …

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet at a meeting scheduled to be held on Tuesday is going to consider an exemption in a section of the drug law, reduction in the price of an injection given to the Covid-19 patients and may also allow an increase in the prices of some medicines. According to sources in the Ministry of National Health Services …

ISLAMABAD: The government has involved three non-government organisations to monitor the prime minister’s flagship Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme (TBTTP). This was stated by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change (SAPM) Malik Amin Aslam and Minister of State Zartaj Gul during a rare joint media briefing on Monday, which dispelled the impression that there were differences between …

ISLAMABAD: Religious leaders from various Islamic sects said they would disassociate from those in their ranks who make derogatory comments about religious figures, or fan hatred and sectarianism in the country. They made the decision at the Wahdat-i-Ummat Conference held at the Presidency, chaired by President Dr Arif Alvi. “We should keep check not to take ideological differences to the …

ISLAMABAD: The government will introduce two important bills in the next session of the National Assembly — one related to removal of camp offices of the president and the prime minister and the other against sexual abuse of women and children. Both bills were discussed by Prime Minister Imran Khan during a meeting with his Adviser on Parliamentary Affairs Dr …

ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday termed the speech of former premier Nawaz Sharif at the opposition’s multiparty conference (PMC) “anti-Pakistan” and said Prime Minister Imran Khan was leading the country and the army was assisting him in important national affairs. At a joint press conference, a day after the MPC, senior federal ministers Shah Mehmood Qure­shi, Asad Umar, Fawad Chaudhry and Shibli …

The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday announced the launch of phase 3 clinical trials in Pakistan for a potential vaccine being developed by China’s CanSino Biologics for the novel coronavirus. Trials for phase 1 and 2 for the vaccine were held in China. Pakistan, under a public-private partnership between the National Institute of Health (NIH) and CanSino, …