ISLAMABAD: Islamabad reported its highest single day rise in Covid-19 cases in the last two months, with 186 people testing positive on Saturday, while two people died of the disease in Rawalpindi. An educational institution was sealed and 10 were reopened after being disinfected and cleared. On Friday, the Islamabad Postgraduate College for Women in F-7/2 was sealed once more …

LAHORE: An accountability court on Saturday directed the superintendent of Kot Lakhpat central jail to provide home-cooked food, a mattress and all other entitled facilities under the law to Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz, an under-trial prisoner in a money laundering and illegal assets reference. Hamza’s counsel Amjad Pervez filed an application before the court pleading that …

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Ryanair have signed an agreement under which the former will provide its Boeing-777 aircraft to the latter to operate cargo flights between Urumqi and Pakistan. PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez said on Saturday that PIA has cut down its flight operations because of travel restrictions brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving many of its …

ISLAMABAD: Former Sen­ate chairman Mian Raza Rabb­ani has informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that an ordinance issued without meeting requirements of Article 89 of the Constitution can be scrapped. Senator Rabbani, an amicus in the petition filed against promulgation of ‘excessive’ ordinances, told the court that when an ordinance is promulgated in violation of the requirements of pre-promulgation of …

ISLAMABAD: After more than 30 years of effort, the African region was certified as free of wild polio in August this year, and Pakistan could be the next country on the journey to a polio-free world, World Health Organisation Country Representative Dr Palitha Mahipala said on Saturday. Dr Mahipala was speaking at an event on World Polio Day, observed to …

HYDERABAD: Federal Minister for Planning Asad Umar has said regardless of judges’ observations in the Justice Qazi Faez Isa case, the response in verdict is positive as it says “questions about properties were indeed raised to approach the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC)”. The minister, who is a senior leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), said “the rest are details like use of …