WASHINGTON: Pakistan is set to receive a shipment of the Moderna vaccine from the United States, it was announced here on Monday. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration was shipping two million doses of the Pfizer Covid vaccine to Peru. Besides, he said, 1.5m doses of the Moderna vaccine were being transported to Pakistan. Meanwhile, Turkey …

DUBAI: Iran said on Monday it has yet to decide whether to extend a monitoring deal with the UN nuclear watchdog which lapsed last week, amid Washington’s warning that Tehran’s failure to renew it would complicate talks to revive its 2015 nuclear accord. “No decision has been made yet, either negative or positive, about extending the monitoring deal with the …

ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of people staged a protest and created law and order situation at F-9 Park vaccination centre over shortage of Pfizer and Astrazeneca vaccines on Monday. Officials of the capital administration said that about 3,000 people from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) reached the centre to get the shots of Pfizer and Astrazeneca vaccines which are mandatory for entry in Saudi …

RAWALPINDI: With the monsoon round the corner, uncovered electric wires hanging from lampposts in streets and roads, especially in narrow streets of the garrison city, are posing threat to residents. A visit to the city areas showed that wires were hanging close to houses. At many points, uncovered joints on lampposts can also cause major incidents in case of gusty …

ISLAMABAD: Expressing concern over the ongoing anti-Pakistan propaganda campaign on social media, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Monday said that during the recent protests by the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on the blasphemy issue, more than 300,000 tweets originated from Indian city of Ahmedabad within three-and-a-half minutes. The minister said this in his winding up speech in the …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Monday acquitted the principal of a private school and set aside his conviction by the trial court on multiple counts of sexual offences, including rape, seducing and blackmailing women and sodomy, over two years ago. The appeal of convict Attaullah, who was also the school’s owner, was initially heard by a bench comprising Justice …

ISLAMABAD: British High Commissioner Christian Turner on Monday appreciated Pakistan’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. During a meting with Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood, the high commissioner said so far Pakistan has done well to curtail the virus. The two sides exchanged views on a range of bilateral issues, says a press release issued by education …

The World Bank’s (WB) board of executive directors on Tuesday approved $800 million for financing two programmes in Pakistan. According to a press release, the programmes include the Pakistan Programme for Affordable and Clean Energy (PACE) and the Second Securing Human Investments to Foster Transformation (SHIFT II). WB Country Director for Pakistan Najy Benhassine said that the reforms underpinning the two …

MUZAFFARABAD: A teenage boy was killed and three girls, including two sisters, under the age of 13 years were critically injured in Neelum valley of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Monday after a ‘dud shell’ they were reportedly tampering with exploded. The incident occurred at about 5:30pm in the town of Kel, some 160 kilometres northeast of Muzaffarabad, when …

MANSEHRA: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said tourism offers excellent potential for boosting the country’s revenue and employment opportunities and it is his vision to keep Pakistan clean and green to attract tourists from across the world to this heavenly land. “Switzerland is half the size of our northern areas and has no match with the natural beauty of our …