ISLAMABAD: Amid a warning by the opposition against legislation in haste, a standing committee of the National Assembly on Tuesday cleared a bill seeking to amend dozens of clauses of Elections Act, 2017. The NA Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs met for a second consecutive day with MNA Mujahid Ali in the chair. The panel appreciated government efforts to draw …

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the name of Tariq Malik, who is currently serving at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), for his appointment as National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) chairman following a rigorous selection process. Mr Malik had served in Nadra in the past as well, while the UNDP had picked him from amongst 178 IT …

PESHAWAR: As the Covid-19 cases and mortalities continue to decline, the provincial government has decided to speed up vaccination and give timeline to the public servants to get inoculated besides scaling up public awareness regarding significance of shots against the virus. Health officials said that making vaccination mandatory for employees of the all departments was also part of the strategy. …

ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan records this year’s lowest positivity ratio of Covid-19, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday decided to intensify vaccination efforts by recommending the mechanism adopted for teachers’ vaccination to all other ministries as well. Also, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) issued an advisory on Pfizer vaccine. In addition to vaccination efforts, the authorities …

Pakistan administered the 10 millionth Covid-19 vaccine dose on Wednesday, with Federal Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Minister Asad Umar announcing that the authorities aimed to inoculate 70 million people by the end of this year. Speaking at a ceremony held to mark the deliverance of the 10 millionth dose, Umar said around seven million people had been administered vaccine …

Federal Minister for Railways Azam Khan Swati said on Wednesday that it was unlikely that a fault in an eight-mile (12.87 kilometres) stretch of railway tracks was responsible for the recent train accident in Ghotki. Two passenger trains collided near Daharki on Monday, a city located in the Ghotki district of upper Sindh when a Millat Express train — headed from …

CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mexico — Chihuahua appears to have made history by electing its first female governor Sunday during pivotal nationwide midterms where Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s political alliance won 9 of the 15 gubernatorial races. But López Obrador’s dominant hold on Congress slipped. His Morena political party will have a maximum of 203 votes in Congress which, together …

Garland fire and police crews have recovered the body of a woman whose car became trapped in water early Sunday, authorities say. Crews had responded to the 1700 block of Holford Road after a Nissan Altima was surrounded by water about 2:15 a.m. Police said that when Garland firefighters arrived, the vehicle, which had been swept into the creek, was …

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris, making her first overseas trip, hit back at criticism from Texas Republicans and others demanding she visit the US-Mexico border, asserting Monday in Guatemala that it’s far more important to focus on “root causes” of migration than to make “grand gestures.” Republicans do not consider a border visit a mere gesture, and most of …