ISLAMABAD: As the government is going to launch Covid-19 vaccination drive for senior citizens on March 10 (tomorrow), the people holding Pakistan Origin Cards (POCs) and foreign national spouses of Pakistanis are found ineligible to be inoculated, it emerged on Monday. The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) admitted that the POC holders are very much Pakistanis and decided to …

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday told the federal cabinet that he wanted regular updates on mechanisms being developed to ensure overseas Pakistanis can vote, in addition to the use of technology such as electronic voting machines (EVM). The premier made the comments during the beginning of a session of the federal cabinet which was telecast live by state-run broadcasters. …

The Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly on Tuesday unanimously adopted a joint resolution demanding that Prime Minister Imran Khan and state institutions grant the region provisional provincial status, and provide it with representation in Parliament and other constitutional bodies. The resolution was jointly tabled by GB Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid Khan from the PTI, opposition leader Amjad Hussain Advocate from the PPP, …

Major fitness clubs Gold’s Gym and Life Time will remove occupancy limits and no longer require masks at Texas locations beginning Wednesday. Minnesota-based Life Time, a health club chain with 10 North Texas locations, including Addison and Highland Park, notified members by email that masks would no longer be required at its clubs. “Our clubs are adjusting our protocols throughout …

A Dallas actor and film producer accused of assaulting police officers with a crutch during the U.S. Capitol riot convinced a federal judge on Monday to release him with conditions pending his trial in Washington, D.C. But Luke Coffee, 41, isn’t free yet. A prosecutor asked for and received a stay of U.S. Magistrate Judge David Horan’s ruling to give …

Fort Worth police are asking for the public’s help identifying two men involved in a fatal game-room robbery last week. Officers were called about 2 a.m. Thursday to the game room in a strip mall in the 3800 block of Altamesa Boulevard, near Woodway Drive in south Fort Worth. President of Central Market, H-E-B, about mask protocol at stores Subscribe …

Low-income families in Texas and beyond are close to getting a big boost, with Congress poised to expand the Child Tax Credit as part of the $1.9 trillion stimulus package. The bill, which passed the Senate on Saturday, would broaden eligibility and increase payments of up to $3,600 for children under 6 and $3,000 for children ages 7 to 17. …

EL PASO — Hundreds of migrant families are being flown from South Texas to this region by the Department of Homeland Security to help ease pandemic-related overcrowding at facilities in the Rio Grande Valley as the flow of people crossing the border increases. County officials and migrant advocates in El Paso said Monday that it is expected that as many …

A suspect is in custody nearly five months after a hit-and-run crash that left a motorcyclist dead in Arlington. Chuco Mario Martinez II, 27, was arrested early Sunday in Castle Hills, just north of downtown San Antonio, on a charge of accident involving death. Arlington officers were called the evening of Oct. 13 to the scene of the crash at …

Dallas police Officer Bryan Riser, who was arrested on two capital murder charges last week, patrolled the streets of Dallas for several years — even as authorities were looking into him and his father, Byron “Blue” Riser, in connection with one of the killings in 2017, records obtained by show. Thirty-year-old Liza Saenz was murdered in March 2017, and her …