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By A Special Correspondent Houston: A mammoth gathering on Sunday, March 17, at the Bayou City Center in Houston of over 2,000 persons made it again the largest Iftar Dinner event in the United States. The Silver Jubilee of America’s largest Annual Houston Iftar Dinner has  been organized for the past many years by the Muslim Sister Cities of Houston, …

LAHORE: Over 2,000 Sikh pilgrims entered Pakistan on Tuesday from the Wagah border to attend the annual Baisakhi festival starting from Wednesday (today). The main festival ceremony is scheduled to be held at Gurdwara Panja Sahib (Hasanabdal) on Thursday (tomorrow), according to officials. Led by Sardar Arvinder Singh, the pilgrims first reached Attari on the Indian side from various areas …

NEW YORK: Over 2,000 flights have been cancelled and thousands delayed around the world as the highly infectious Omicron variant disrupts holiday travel. According to tracking website Flightaware.com at 1540 GMT on Friday, a total of 2,118 flights had been cancelled worldwide, including 500 flights originating from or headed to US airports, and over 5,700 delayed. Pilots, flights attendants and …

KABUL: Afghanistan’s health system is on the verge of collapse, a top Red Cross official warned on Thursday, saying more than 2,000 health facilities had been shuttered across the conflict-ravaged country. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned that a dire lack of funding was pushing Afghanistan’s health system to the brink. “People might agree …

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The spectre of a fresh wave of Covid-19 loomed over the country on Thursday as the number of people reported to have contracted the potentially fatal disease in a day topped the figure of 2,000 after a gap of about a month, with half of those infected belonging to Punjab. The country’s most populous province seemed to be in …

ISLAMABAD: Around 2,250 individuals from across the globe have so far applied online to obtain Pakistan’s visa, according to data released by the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on Tuesday. Nadra, which developed the online system of issuing visas to potential travellers to Pakistan, said that 739 applications had been received during a single week starting from May 6. …

PESHAWAR: As many as 2,443 educational institutions of the seven merged tribal districts, mostly for girls, are without toilets and around 2,580 without drinking water supply as the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has focused its attention on the provision of solar energy to more than 300 mosques in the area. Almost half of the 4,961 primary schools for boys and girls …