US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Monday are down to the final full week of campaigning before the November 3 election, as surging coronavirus cases and a Covid-19 outbreak within Vice President Mike Pence’s staff keep the focus of the race on the pandemic. Trump claimed progress in combating the disease even as the United States …

PESHAWAR: The health department has been advised by National Command and Operation Centre to strictly monitor the trend of admission in hospitals, positivity of swabs and surveillance to be able to take appropriate measures to prevent the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. “Situation is under control as the positivity of suspected patients has dropped to 0.7 per cent which means …

QUETTA: Three people were killed and over a dozen others injured in a bomb blast in the Hazarganji area on the outskirts of the provincial capital on Sunday. The blast occurred when the leaders of the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) were addressing their third anti-government public meeting at Ayub Stadium, some 20km from the explosion site. A spokesman for …

LAHORE: City’s Air Quality Index appeared to be very unhealthy on Sunday amid forecast of massive rise in smog with continuous drop in temperatures and increase in stubble-burning and round-the-clock operation of brick kilns in suburbs and rural parts of the neighbouring country. “The AQI status of Town Hall has been recorded at 207. And it is a moderate one, …

ISLAMABAD: The capital administration has sealed 10 streets in seven residential sectors after another 157 cases of Covid-19 were reported on Sunday. “Every street that has been sealed has five or more cases of Covid-19. The decision has been made to keep the residents in isolation so that the spread of the virus can be stopped,” Deputy Commissioner Hamza Shafqaat …

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani has expressed concern over Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan leader Owais Noorani’s speech at the public meeting organised by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) in the city on Sunday in which he talked about making Balochistan a separate state. In a statement issued on Twitter late on Sunday night, the chief minister asked the PDM leadership whose …

LAHORE: The PML-N leaders organised a separate ceremony to inaugurate the Orange Line Metro Train Project at Jain Mandir and celebrated the occasion. Before the inauguration by Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar, the PML-N leaders, including Khawaja Saad Rafique and Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, reached the spot in a truck along with a crowd of the party workers and cut the …

ISLAMABAD: Taking serious notice of the use of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) platform for raising the slogan of “independent Balochistan”, the federal government may adopt a new strategy to deal with the opposition’s ongoing protest campaign. This was stated by federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz while talking to Dawn hours after a news conference here on Sunday in which he had …

LAHORE: The coronavirus resurgence due to the constant rise in the number of cases rings alarm bells in Punjab. The second wave is said to be worse than the initial spread of the disease the world over. Strict observance of the SOPs is the key to fend off the second wave of coronavirus but the situation on ground presents an …

A two-day seminar for exploring opportunities to boost investment and trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan began in Islamabad on Monday. On the invitation of National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, a 17-member Afghan parliamentary delegation, led by Speaker of Wolsey Jirga Mr Rahmani, arrived in Islamabad to participate in the seminar, titled Pakistan-Afghanistan Trade and Investment Forum 2020. Speaking at the …