Pakistan will receive 15 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine under the Covax facility, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced on Monday after a meeting with his German counterpart ​Heiko Maas. Qureshi, who is on a two-day visit to Germany, said the 15m doses would be delivered by May. The Covax scheme is aimed at ensuring equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines. …

Crowds of mourners and protesters gathered in a Minnesota city where the family of a 20-year-old black man say he was shot by police before getting back into his car and driving away, then crashing several blocks away. The family of Daunte Wright said he was later pronounced dead. The death sparked protests in Brooklyn Center into the early hours …

Prince Harry, whose explosive interview alongside his wife Meghan plunged the royal family into its biggest crisis in decades, has arrived back in Britain for Prince Philip’s funeral on Saturday. Philip, the husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth who had been at her side throughout her 69-year reign, died at Windsor Castle on Friday. Harry, Philip’s grandson, arrived in London on Sunday from …

Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said on Monday that the United Kingdom’s decision to include Pakistan in the list of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing High-Risk Countries was not based on facts. In a statement issued from Islamabad, Chaudhri expressed the hope that the “UK would review its regulations in light of facts on ground and avoid politically …

KARACHI: A tech-based initiative of the Sindh police in collaboration with the Citizens-Police Liasion Committee (CPLC) and a non-government poverty alleviation organisation is emerging as a fresh success in building a database of domestic labourers, industrial and corporate workers and hundreds of thousands of blue-collar employees of different organisations where their data can be verified before appointment with the aim …

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) misstated before the Supreme Court about the illegal construction of courts on the premises of the sessions courts Islamabad. This was disclosed in a written reply submitted to the Supreme Court by the registrar of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in response to the apex court’s order of April 5. A bench headed by …

GILGIT: Prominent scholar and veteran politician Syed Yahya Shah passed away on Sunday. He was 93. He left behind five daughters, a son and a widow to mourn his death. His funeral prayers were held in Markazi Jamia Masjid Gilgit that were attended by a large number of people including Opposition Leader in BG Assembly Advocate Amjad Hussain and former …

ISLAMABAD: One month after emergence of the new Senate, political parties having representation in the upper house of parliament are now eyeing chairmanship of key committees as negotiations between the government and the opposition are under way to reach an understanding over the share of each side. Sources in the government and the opposition parties told Dawn on Sunday that an understanding …

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz said on Monday that the member parties of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) were all committed and that she trusted the leadership of PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Speaking to the media outside the Lahore High Court (LHC), Maryam said that the PDM alliance was still going strong. “The parties in the PDM are very …

LAHORE: Health minister Dr Yasmin Rashid says the health department is witnessing an alarming rise in the number of critically-ill patients and sudden rise of admissions to the ICUs. Chairing a meeting at Chief Minister’s Secretariat on Sunday to review the situation of the coronavirus pandemic in the wake of alarming rise in number of patients at the ICUs, Dr …