RAWALPINDI: Two vaccination centres in Rawalpindi have been closed till Monday due to shortage of Covid-19 vaccines while the other three are providing only the second dose. The vaccination centres at Jan Marriage Hall and Wapda Hospital were closed after they ran short of vaccines. Many people complained that vaccines were not available even at the Fatima Jinnah Women University …

Mufti Azizur Rehman, who is accused of sexually assaulting one of his students, was arrested by a team of the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) during a raid in Mianwali, officials confirmed. Lahore Model Town CIA Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Hasnain Haider, who led the raid to arrest Rehman, told Dawn.com that Rehman was being brought back to Lahore where he will be prosecuted. …

REDON: Five police officers were injured overnight in western France as they broke up a 1,500-strong illegal rave, authorities said on Saturday, with one party-goer losing a hand in the clashes. Police fired teargas to disperse the crowd, who defied an 11pm coronavirus curfew on Friday and just stayed on into Saturday afternoon at a race course near Redon in …

TEHRAN: Ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi was declared the winner on Saturday of Iran’s presidential election, a widely anticipated result after many political heavyweights were barred from running. Raisi won just shy of 62 percent of the vote in Friday’s election, according to official figures, on a turnout of 48.8 percent, a record low for a presidential poll in the Islamic …

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) legislator on the floor of the National Assembly on Saturday asked the government why it was going to name a road in Islamabad after what he termed Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) ally Ahmed Shah Massoud when there was no road named after Pakistan’s ally Mullah Omar. Member National Assembly Ghulam Ali Talpur …

A special plane of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) carrying 1.55 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine reached Islamabad from China on Sunday as the country grappled with a shortage of the anti-Covid-19 jabs. The National Command and Control Centre (NCOC) said in a statement that the batch was part of the “planned contracted quantity purchased from China”. Measures had been …

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has formally conveyed its concerns over the controversial Elections Act (Amendment) Bill recently bulldozed in the National Assembly amid the opposition’s outcry. Informed sources said the commission had raised objection against 45 out of the total 72 proposed amendments in separate letters sent to the ministries of parliamentary affairs and law and justice. A document sent …

MOHMAND: As many as 12 members of a family, including nine children, fell unconscious after eating ‘toxic’ rice in Danishkol area of Pandiali tehsil in Mohmand district on Saturday. According to Rescue 1122 spokesperson Mr Abdullah, 12 members of the same family were reported unconscious after eating poisonous rice at the house of one Khyal Gul in Danishkol area of …

RAWALPINDI:  Pakistan International Airlines on Saturday resumed its Air Safari flight from Islamabad after 14 years to promote tourism. The PIA’s first Air Safari flight with 91 tourists from 13 countries on board departed from Islamabad International Airport on Saturday for Skardu. The Air Safari flight will fly over K-2 to Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak glacier before landing in Skardu …

ISLAMABAD: Taking part in a general discussion on the federal budget in the National Assembly, the lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on Saturday joined their voices by castigating the government for “neglecting” the agriculture sector and asked it to announce a comprehensive agriculture policy. Besides taking their own government to task over poor allocation for the agriculture sector, some treasury …