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Following recent skirmishes on the Pak-Afghan frontier, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday asserted that the government would not tolerate any cross-border terrorism. In the early hours of Monday, Pakistan struck Afghanistan’s Khost and Paktika provinces in “intelligence-based anti-terrorist operations”, which, according to the Afghan interim government, killed eight people. The Foreign Office had confirmed the strikes, saying they were aimed at the Hafiz …

The Texas Department of Public Safety last week sent out its second round of letters to notify victims of a scam that targeted thousands of Asian Americans in the state. In February, the department announced at least 3,000 people were affected by the scam, in which fraudsters used data culled from the dark web to order driver’s licenses in Texans’ names. That …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — If ticket affordability or availability has kept you from seeing the Astros play at home in the World Series, the club has a just as worthy alternative to get rowdy inside Minute Maid Park on gamedays. The Houston Astros’ homefield advantage means the team will have to travel to Philadelphia for at least two games of the …

RAWALPINDI: As many as 4,000 police personnel will be deployed for the cricket series being played between Pakistan and New Zealand at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium from Sept 17 (today). Besides, cricket fans would go through metal detectors, biometric checking and walk-through gates. A security official said though there was no specific threat in Rawalpindi, the law enforcement agencies were not …

Dallas County reported 14 more COVID-19 deaths and 4,877 new coronavirus cases Wednesday — totals that included counts from over the Labor Day weekend. Of the new cases from Saturday through Tuesday, 4,213 were confirmed and 664 were probable. The numbers bring the county’s overall case total to 363,512, including 310,272 confirmed and 53,240 probable. The death toll is 4,388. …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded 120 more deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 25,535. The National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said that the country’s number of overall confirmed cases has risen to 1,148,532 after the emergence of 4,191 new infections. STATISTICS 28 AUG 21: TOTAL TESTS IN LAST 24 HOURS: …

ISLAMABAD: Coronavirus has claimed 67 more lives in Pakistan during the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 14,158. The latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) showed the COVID-19 has claimed 67 more lives and 4,468 fresh infections were reported during the period. The total count of active cases is 42,384 and the positivity …

LONDON: The world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said on Thursday, as researchers began to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots in a world first. Thousands of variants have been documented as the virus mutates, including the so-called British, South African and Brazilian variants, which …

ISLAMABAD: Death toll from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country has climbed to 4,473 as 78 more people died of the highly contagious disease in the past 24 hours. According to latest data of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 4,339 new infections were detected after 22,128 tests were conducted in the previous 24 hours, taking the national …

RAWALPINDI: Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Saturday said the government would bring back 4,000 Pakistanis stranded across the world following Covid-19outbreak through special flights. He said special flights will be operated from April 11 to April 19 to bring back the stranded Pakistanis, adding that 2,000 had returned whounderwent free of cost tests and were lodged in quarantine …