MADRID: Protesters hit the streets of Madrid against virus restrictions on Sunday, a day before a partial lockdown is extended to more areas of Spain’s capital region try to curb a surge in coronavirus cases. The city with its surrounding region is at the epicentre of a second wave of infections sweeping Spain. Covid-19 has already claimed more than 31,000 …

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that Pakistan Railways will follow Supreme Court’s orders regarding revival of the Karachi Circular Railways (KCR). He was addressing a brief press conference at the Shah Abdul Latif station in the SITE area here on Sunday morning. There was a bit of confusion as the media was told to expect …

LAHORE: The traffic police department seems to be an attractive sector for financial embezzlement, as another mega scam worth Rs77.4 million has been detected — the second in as many months. These irregularities were detected in the department’s accounts having been committed allegedly with the connivance of officials of the accountant general office during 2017-18. Farooq Mazhar, a BS-21 police …

QUETTA: Pakistan’s journalist fraternity on Sunday issued a declaration expressing serious concern over torture, abduction and arrest of journalists, unannounced censorship through financial curbs on media houses, threats to owners and journalists by anti-media forces to compel them to toe the official line or face government’s wrath. The declaration, which held Tehreek-i-Insaf government under Prime Minister Imran Khan directly responsible …

• PPP says it will not become part of any committee under speaker • Information minister challenges opposition to resign from parliament ISLAMABAD: Following the opposition’s decision to boycott, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Sunday cancelled the parliamentary leaders’ meeting he had convened on Monday (today) on coming Gilgit-Baltistan elections as the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) announced that it would not …

KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Sunday announced a countrywide movement to build momentum for the rights of Karachi and warned that the existing policies of the federal and provincial governments for the country’s business capital would cause suffering to the masses and could lead to a national disaster. JI chief Senator Sirajul Haq made this announcement at the party’s big …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan National Council of Arts’ (PNCA) board of governors announced on Sunday that it had made a unanimous decision to return Anwar Jamal Shemza’s paintings to their rightful owner. In a statement, the PNCA said that the board, which was appointed by the present government, is committed to making the council a professional and national council. It said …

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 …