The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS), responding to letter by Transparency International Pakistan (TIP), on Wednesday said the federal government’s decision to allow private imports of Covid-19 vaccines was a “deliberate policy tool”. NHS Secretary Aamir Ashraf Khawaja, in the letter, said the government allowed private imports so those population segments which were not part of the government’s priority …

LAHORE: PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal has asked the PPP to respect the decision taken by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) regarding nomination of opposition leader in the Senate. “In the PDM it had been decided that the opposition leader in the Senate would be from PML-N. Now the PPP should respect this decision,” Mr Iqbal said while talking to …

ISLAMABAD: While Covid-19 vaccination card is going to become a travel document, over 29,000 people so far vaccinated in the federal capital have not been issued the cards. District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Zaeem Zia agreed that the vaccination card would be a travel document in the near future and claimed that the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) would …

RAWALPINDI: Police on Tuesday claimed to have also killed the second suspect in the murder case of Racecourse SHO Inspector Mian Imran Abbas during an ‘encounter’ at a checkpoint in Westridge. Now both the suspects in the murder case have been killed in police encounters. A police spokesman said the suspect was identified as Chaudhry Zahid who along with his …

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Shehryar Khan Afridi has said that regional peace is linked to right to self-determination of the people of Kashmir and they will soon get freedom from illegal occupation of Indian state. Mr Afridi expressed these views while speaking on Tuesday at a seminar held under the aegis of the Ittehad-i-Islami and Pakistan …

KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said his government was ready to hold local government elections in the province, but constituencies were to be delimited after the approval of 2017 census. “The Council of Common Interests (CCI) has to decide about Census 2017, but I have heard that the PTI government, on the demand of their coalition partners [MQM], …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former president Asif Ali Zardari has said that the country has been suffering due to imposition of rulers without the will of the people. This was stated by the former president in a message to the nation on the occasion of the Pakistan Day issued here on Tuesday. Mr Zardari, whose party is …

ISLAMABAD: The provincial bureaucracy has expedited efforts to take back control of the administrative posts in the four provinces as it challenged in court a notification to increase the allocation of provincial seats to federal bureaucrats. The establishment division had on March 12 amended Rule 17 of the Civil Service of Pakistan (Compo­sition and Cadre) Rules 1954, changing the composition …

ISLAMABAD: As over 3,000 new Covid-19 cases were reported for the sixth consecutive day on Tuesday and the number of active cases doubled in less than three weeks, Pakistan has contacted China for more vaccine. Federal Minister for Plan­ning and Development Asad Umar said that Pakistan would receive its first purchase of over one million doses of Chinese Sinopharm and …

The head of the nonprofit management group of South Dallas’ Fair Park says the goal is to open the new Community Park, a prime feature of the historic site’s redevelopment, by 2024, despite offers to extend the timeline because of the pandemic. Brian Luallen, executive director of Fair Park First, said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday that …