LAHORE: With coronavirus continuing to spread rapidly and 1,725 new cases reported during the last 24 hours in the Punjab capital alone, the divisional administration is considering a proposal to close the entire city to all those travelling to and from here daily. Entry and exit would only be allowed in extreme emergency cases, Dawn has learnt. The Lahore administration also launched …

ISLAMABAD: As 538 Covid-19 cases surfaced in the federal capital, the administration decided to seal 11 more residential areas and banned all gatherings, including outdoor marriages. Moreover, educational institutions have been stopped from conducting exams. Scores of people were also arrested over violation of the standard operating procedures (SOPs). As per directions of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), …

KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami on Sunday took out a big rally from Quaidabad to Governor House and warned that it would stage a sit-in outside the Chief Minister House in the next phase if its demands regarding a fresh census, end to job quota system and an empowered local government system were not met. Riding motorbikes, cars, vans, buses and other …

RAWALPINDI: A group of unidentified people attacked an over 100-year-old Hindu temple at Purana Qila on Saturday, causing damage to its ongoing renovation work, stairs and doors. Earlier, the encroachment mafia had occupied the surroundings of the temple over a long time by making shops and kiosks. The district administration assisted by the police recently removed all encroachments. After the …

GUJAR KHAN: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) believes in supremacy of parliamentary politics as parliament is the august house of a democratic system, former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said while talking to journalists here on Sunday. At the forum of PDM, the PPP advocated for participation in PDM allies in the by-elections and these polls were overwhelmingly won by the …

ISLAMABAD: The Saudi government has announced to plant 10 billion saplings, following in the footsteps of the PTI government’s Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme, said Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam. “Pakistan has offered Saudi government technical support for its implementation of the programme,” Mr Aslam said at a press conference here on Sunday. However, …

Saudi govt to emulate PTI’s plantation programme: PM’s aide Talks between the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and local tribesmen, protesting the killing of four teenage boys in the province’s Bannu district, were successful on Monday. The tribesmen and the relatives of the slain teenagers — aged between 13 to 17 years — had been protesting the brutal killings for the last …

LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Sunday summoned chief financial officers (CFOs) and heads of sales of eight major sugar groups in connection with the ‘speculative price-hike’ of the sweetener. “The FIA has summoned the chief financial officers (CFOs) and heads of sales of PTI’s Jahangir Tareen’s JDW Sugar Mills for April 2, Maryam Nawaz and Sharif family’s Chaudhry …

ISLAMABAD: The spring session of the National Assembly is set to begin on Monday (today) amid a surge in Covid-19 cases as the opposition protested over the government’s move to call the session in haste. The opposition members expressed surprise over the government’s decision to call the session at a time when the National Command and Operation Centre had decided …

Across the state, 2,415 more coronavirus cases were reported Sunday, including 2,285 new cases and 130 older ones that were recently reported by labs. The state also added 63 COVID-19 deaths, raising its toll to 47,156. Of the new cases, 1,918 were confirmed and 367 were probable. Of the older cases, 123 were confirmed and 7 were probable. The state’s …