ISLAMABAD: The Quaid-i-Azam University (QUA) Academic Staff Association has urged the capital administration to conduct a clean-up operation in the university’s hostels and in surrounding areas. The association in a statement on Saturday called for expelling all illegal residents from the QAU hostels and securing the campus so that the university could resume its normal functioning. It also asked the …

RAWALPINDI: As many as 111 more dengue patients landed in the hospitals of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Saturday. In the garrison city, 57 dengue patients arrived in three government-run hospitals taking their tally to more than 501 in just two weeks. The official data has not carried the patients admitted to private hospitals. In previous years, the provincial government collected …

GWADAR: Cyclone Shah­een, which originated in the Arabian Sea, caused heavy rain and thunderstorm in the coastal areas of Gwadar, Pasni, Ormara, and Jiwani on Saturday, damaging a large number of fishing boats, houses and shops. Over three dozen fishing boats anchored on the coasts of Gwadar and Pasni were destroyed as giant waves hit the coastal areas. At least …

WASHINGTON: The US Senate bill that seeks to assess Pakistan’s role in the Afghan war and suggests sanctions, also includes a provision that allows President Joseph Biden to waive the restrictions. Under this provision, the US president “may waive the application of sanctions under this title with respect to a foreign person if the president, not later 10 days before the waiver …

Expo 2020 Dubai, a major world fair that opened last week, on Sunday said three workers on the project had died after contracting Covid-19, revising up the number of fatalities since 2015 to six workers. The organiser had for the first time on Saturday disclosed three work-related deaths and 72 serious injuries among 200,000 workers during construction of the site, defending the accident rate …

ISLAMABAD: Senior members of the federal cabinet are ex­p­ected to hammer out a set of proposals on Tuesday to shape them into a final draft bill for amending the National Acco­un­tability Ordinance (NAO) 1999, which include exploring avenues for removal of National Accoun­tability Bureau (NAB) chairman during his four-year non-extendable term. Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry told Dawn that Tue­sday’s meeting will be …

Voters chose none of the 26 women who stood for election in Qatar’s first legislative polls on Saturday, disappointing candidates who had wanted to lend a voice for women and other Qataris in the Gulf monarchy’s political process. The vote was for 30 members of the 45-seat advisory Shura Council while the emir will continue to appoint the remaining 15 members of …

LONDON: Worldwide deaths related to Covid-19 surpassed 5 million, according to a tally, with unvaccinated people particularly exposed to the virulent Delta strain. The variant has exposed the wide disparities in vaccination rates between rich and poor nations, and the upshot of vaccine hesitancy in some western nations. More than half of all global deaths reported on a seven-day average …

Around 1,000 Taliban supporters attended a rally on Sunday in a vast field to the north of Kabul, in a show of strength as they consolidate their rule of Afghanistan. The crowd, made up only of men and boys, listened to speeches by leading Taliban officials and commanders at Kohdaman township in the hilly outskirts of the capital. The rally …

A huge fire on Saturday night severely damaged Rome’s famed “Iron Bridge”, with parts of the 19th-century structure plunging into the Tiber River. The bridge, which was opened in 1863 and whose formal name is Ponte dell’ Industria (Industry Bridge), connects the densely populated Ostiense and Portuense neighbourhoods. Pope Pius IX attended the 1863 inauguration of the bridge, one of …