ISLAMABAD: The capital recorded its highest rise in Covid-19 cases this month with 74 more patients reported on Sunday. The number is more than twice the total number of cases reported in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province the same day. Five doctors at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) have also contracted the disease since outpatient departments reopened on Aug …

LONDON: Exactly a week after former prime minister Nawaz Sharif made a fiery speech criticising the military’s alleged interference in political matters, nearly two dozen young men gathered outside Avenfield House on Sunday evening and yelled slogans against him. According to footage available with Dawn, over 20 young men in hoods and face masks gathered on Dunraven Street, across from the PML-N leader’s …

ISLAMABAD: It is under active consideration of the federal government to implement one of the recommendations of the judicial commission that probed the terrorist attack on Army Public School-Warsak in Peshawar by upgrading the school and granting it university status, the Supreme Court was informed. A three-judge SC bench, headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, was apprised during a hearing on Friday …