Twenty two Palestinians were wounded in overnight clashes with Israeli police in annexed east Jerusalem, the Red Crescent said on Thursday, as tensions flare over a controversial land rights case. Police confirmed 11 arrests in the latest unrest to rock the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood near Jerusalem’s walled Old City, where land disputes between Palestinians and Jewish settlers have fuelled hostility …

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind waiving intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines, bowing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and more than 100 other countries, but angering pharmaceutical companies. Biden voiced his support for a waiver — a sharp reversal of the previous US position — in remarks to reporters, followed swiftly by a statement …

India reported a record 412,262 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday and a record 3,980 daily death toll, as a second wave of infections swamps the health system and spreads from cities into the vast countryside. Covid-19 infections in the world’s second most populous nation have surged past 21 million, with a death toll of 230,168, health ministry data show. Government …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has observed that the case of convicted Indian spy, Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav, has international ramifications and urged the Indian government to cooperate with the legal proceeding as this concerns the “life of a human being”. A three-member bench of the IHC comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah, Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has lost more than 80pc of its pangolins due to their illegal killing for scales and meat. “We know persecution by farmers has always been there. But we have seen a very sharp decline due to their illegal trade especially in China where demand by the growing middle class for their scales and meat has increased significantly in …

ISLAMABAD: Another petition has been filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) over the Defence Housing Authority’s failure to hand over plots to the allottees in DHA Valley a decade after the scheduled time. The DHA has hired a lawyer to pursue the identical petitions pending before the IHC. Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb of the IHC had earlier last month …

MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government on Wednesday announced imposition of lockdown in the name of “mobility control measures” from May 8 to May 16 in the light of the decisions made by National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) late last month. All businesses and shops would remain closed during the lockdown except those dealing with essential services …

ISLAMABAD: A complainant has withdrawn a petition filed against ‘highhandedness’ of Islamabad police officials who raided her house at mid-night without warrants and lady constables. IHC Chief Justice on April 16 directed the inspector general of Islamabad police to conduct an inquiry against the officials who violated the sanctity of home, trespassed on a house at mid-night and detained housewife …

KARACHI: Despite a sudden and rapid increase in coronavirus cases in the city over the last couple of weeks, the demand for oxygen cylinders — essentially required for Covid-19 patients in critical condition — appeared normal so far as the main medical market of vital medical supplies has not witness panic buying of oxygen. “The Lucky Star medical market would …

LAHORE: A private pathology laboratory claims to have detected two cases of the South African variant of coronavirus in Punjab and also confirmed predominance of the UK variant here during the third wave of the pandemic. It stated that a research was carried out by the lab’s departments of virology and molecular genetics for which 62 Covid-19 samples had been …