RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army, Rangers and local police in collaboration with the district administration on Friday started an operation to ensure implementation of Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) in the garrison city. During the operation, Assistant Commissioner (City) Waqas Sikandar and ASP Taimur raided different markets and imposed fines on three shops on Murree Road, two restaurants and arrested two persons …

LAHORE: Keeping in view the worsening Covid-19 situation, the government has decided to place Lahore under a complete lockdown on Saturday and Sunday (May 1 and 2). The lockdown restrictions will not be applicable to the industry operating under coronavirus-related standard operating procedures (SOPs). On the other hand, the Lahore City District Administration urged the public at large to wear …

ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has decided to provide provisional admission to A2 students, whose Cambridge exams have been postponed to October-November, in the Fall 2021 semester in universities to avoid their loss. O-A levels students in most of the other countries have been allowed by the Cambridge International Examination (CIE) to have school assessed grades but in Pakistan, …

ISLAMABAD: A day after Prime Minister Imran Khan rejected the serious allegations levelled by former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general Bashir Memon against him and his adviser concerning the Justice Qazi Faez Isa case, Special Assistant to the PM on Political Information Dr Shahbaz Gill alleged that the ex-DG had misused his authority to set up three industries in tax-free tribal …

ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Khalid Jawed Khan on Friday highlighted the need for developing an objective mechanism for an exercise by the Supreme Court of its inherent jurisdiction in enforcing fundamental rights under Article 184(3) of the Constitution. “This power has been exercised by the apex court with great caution and most sparingly,” the AGP conceded, but suggested that the time …

• Minister says body to decide on request in 30 days • Govt proscribed outfit after violent protests by supporters ISLAMABAD: The banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has filed an appeal with the interior ministry, seeking revocation of the ban imposed on it, sources told on Friday. An official said a right of review was available under section 11C (1) of the Anti-Terrorism …

A woman was in custody after a bomb threat at a McKinney bank Tuesday afternoon. McKinney police said just before 2 p.m. that they were investigating a bomb threat in the parking lot of the Valliance Bank in the 5900 block of South Lake Forest Drive, near the Sam Rayburn Tollway. Police cautioned people to avoid the area. The Plano …

Dallas County reported eight more COVID-19 deaths and 361 new coronavirus cases Friday. The latest victims were three Mesquite residents, a woman in her 50s and a man and a woman in their 70s; two Balch Springs men, in their 40s and 60s; a Cedar Hill woman in her 90s; a Dallas man in his 90s; and an Irving man …

Saturday begins cloudy with areas of fog, followed by increasing rain and storm chances. An unsettled weather pattern is going to continue through tonight across much of North Texas. Expect showers from time to time, but several dry hours as well. In DFW, up to an inch of additional rain is possible through tonight. The steadiest and heaviest rain will …

More than a year after she was killed, the Army confirmed Friday that Vanessa Guillén was sexually harassed by a supervisor, but not by the soldier who the Army believes killed her.While Guillén’s family maintained that she was being harassed at work, the Army previously said it found no evidence of that claim. The 271-page report released Friday found those claims to …