LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Pakistan (PTI) estranged leader Jahangir Khan Tareen’s MNA Raja Riaz and provincial minister Ajmal Cheema called on Governor Chaudhry Sarwar on Friday and expressed their concerns over cases against Mr Tareen. The governor assured them that political revenge was out of the question and justice would be served in Mr Tareen’s case. Both Mr Riaz and Mr Cheema …

RAWALPINDI: As many as 50 workers and activists of the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) were shifted to Jhelum from Adiala jail on Friday. According to sources, police have arrested 176 individuals due to their alleged involvement in the recent violent demonstrations, and detained 58 others under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) ordinance. The sources said out of the arrested …

QUETTA: Parliamentary leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the Balochistan Assembly Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind has threatened to resign from the post of special assistant to the prime minister on water, power and natural resources (for the province) if he fails to resolve electricity and gas supply issues. Speaking on a resolution moved by JUI-F MPA Mohammad Asghar Tareen …

RAWALPINDI: As Pakistan introduced a stricter travel ban on 23 countries amid the rising Covid-19 cases involving new variants, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) further extended travel restrictions to April 30. In the wake of a surge in Covid-19 cases in India, the federal government on April 19 placed India in category C countries and banning all chartered and private …

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly session was prorogued on Friday soon after its commencement when the opposition and some treasury members, in a rare show of unity, staged a joint demonstration in front of the speaker’s dais demanding the eviction of the French ambassador from Pakistan for blasphemy. The NA Secretariat later announced that the parliament house would remain closed for …

Dallas County reported nine more COVID-19 deaths and 181 new coronavirus cases Friday. Five of the latest victims were Dallas residents: a man in his 40s, a man in his 50s, two women in their 60s and a man in his 80s. The others were a DeSoto man in his 50s, a Duncanville woman in her 80s, a Garland man …

A Texas Department of Public Safety special agent was wounded in a shooting in Denton County on Friday afternoon, authorities said, and police have taken one person into custody. Fort Worth police were called about 2:30 p.m. about a man walking with a gun in the 14400 block of Mainstay Way in Haslet. That neighborhood is in southwestern Denton County, …

U.S. health officials lifted an 11-day pause on COVID-19 vaccinations using Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose shot on Friday, after scientific advisers decided its benefits outweigh a rare risk of blood clot. The government uncovered 15 vaccine recipients who developed a highly unusual kind of blood clot, out of nearly 8 million people given the J&J shot. All were women, most …

A Texas woman was hospitalized with possible blood clots after receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, the state health department said. The Texas Department of State Health Services was notified about the case Wednesday afternoon by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through its Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, said spokesman Douglas Loveday. The patient is an adult …

Authorities are looking for the thieves behind a string of break-ins at North Texas gun stores in recent weeks. The first burglary took place about 2:15 a.m. April 13, according to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Five people broke into Elliot White Gun Co. in the 6200 block of Rufe Snow Drive in North Richland Hills …