US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he and first lady Melania have tested positive for the coronavirus — just a month before the presidential election. “We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” Trump tweeted early Friday. Melania, through her official account, said she and Trump were quarantining at home after testing positive …

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a letter to the president of the UN Security Council has highlighted the threats to peace from Indian actions in occupied Kashmir. Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri at the weekly media briefing on Thursday said the latest letter to the UNSC president was “part of Pakistan’s efforts to keep the UN Security …

ISLAMABAD: Afghan pea­ce­maker Abdullah Abdullah has said that Pakistan is “on the same page” as Afghanistan in relation to the need for reduction in violence and flexibility in Doha intra-Afghan negotiations by Taliban. In an interview on Wednes­day, hours before returning to Kabul after completing his three-day visit to Pakistan, the chairman of High Council for National Reconciliation in Afgh­anistan, said: “We …

Pakistan on Friday rejected “speculative and baseless” media reports claiming the Pakistan Army was fighting alongside Azerbaijani forces against Armenia in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. “Such reports are irresponsible,” Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudri said in a statement. Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are currently engaged in the heaviest fighting in years over Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian province that broke away from …

LAHORE: Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Umar Sheikh has refused to deploy police personnel at the Lahore-Sialkot Motorway for the security of the motorists, citing shortage of the force. Inspector General of Punjab Police (IGP) Inam Ghani had ordered the Lahore police to deploy personnel for patrolling the Lahore-Sialkot motorway after a woman was gang raped there on Sept 9 in …

QUETTA: The Supreme Court on Thursday termed unsatisfactory a police report on targeted killings of the Hazara community people as well as missing persons and ordered them to submit a comprehensive report in this regard in two weeks. A three-judge SC bench comprising Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Faisal Arab and Justice Ejaz-ul-Hasan also took notice of plying of non-customs …

KARACHI: The Sindh government on Thursday extended ‘mini smart lockdown’ to more city neighbourhoods as the number of coronavirus cases continued to increase and an advisory issued by the health department recommended restricted movement in the affected parts of the metropolis. Two localities of district South were identified as ‘fresh hotspots’ of the pandemic and were placed under a ‘mini …

ISLAMABAD: A scrutiny committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday met to take up hearings of foreign funding cases against the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) but adjourned proceedings without any progress. Both parties were told that information from banks was awaited henceforth it was not possible to move forward and the …

ISLAMABAD: The government has restored the pension of the former director general of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) retired Lt Gen Asad Durrani, he told the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday. However, Mr Durrani also asked the court to seek an explanation from the government as to why his pension was suspended. Justice Shahid Jamil …

KARACHI: Retired Gen Muzaffar Usmani, a former vice chief of army staff and corps commander of Karachi, was found dead in his car near Do Darya in Defence phase-VIII in the early hours of Thursday morning. Police said that the body of the retired general was found lying on the driving seat of his car, parked off the main road …