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ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Wednesday said it was inappropriate to keep people on the Exit Control List (ECL) as well as the blacklist for long without any cogent reason and announced that the two lists would be cut down. Talking to reporters after visiting the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) headquarters, Mr Ahmed, who has recently been assigned …

RAWALPINDI: Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Saturday said the government was ready to hold talks with the opposition but not at the cost of corruption cases. Addressing a press conference, he said he had offered talks to the opposition on behalf of Prime Minister Imran Khan on national and international issues. “The talks with the opposition will focus …

ISLAMABAD: Mocking opposition parties over what he called hurling empty threats of resigning from the assemblies, Information Minister Senator Shibli Faraz on Wednesday dared them to quit the National Assembly or the Senate. Addressing a news conference here at the Press Information Department (PID), he said the Pakistan Democratic Alliance (PDM) had played its cards too early and it was …

KARACHI: All pre-primary, primary and middle classes across Sindh will be resumed from Monday (Sept 28) under the standard operating procedures (SOPs) prescribed by the government. This was stated by Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani at a press conference held at the Sindh Assembly building here on Friday. The minister said he had postponed only the second phase …

• Experts fear rise in cases with drop in temperature, SOPs violations • PM’s aide sees intensive testing behind recent surge ISLAMABAD: Federal Educa­tion Minister Shafqat Mahmood on Saturday warned against ‘any hasty decision’ to close institutions, as tens of educational institutions were closed soon after their reop­e­ning across the country over viola­tion of Standard Operating Proce­dures (SOPs) and detection …

ISLAMABAD: Religious Affairs Minister Pir Noorul Haq Qadri claimed during a meeting with the European Union ambassador on Tuesday that negative propaganda was being spread against Pakistan on the matter of forced conversions. He also claimed Pakistan was at the forefront in the region in providing religious minorities rights and freedom to exercise their faith. EU Ambassador Androulla Kaminara visited …

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior retired Brig Ijaz Shah on Thursday said the ulema should help enforce standard operating procedures (SOP) issued to limit the spread of the coronavirus on Eidul Azha. Mr Shah was speaking to a delegation of clerics led by Majlis-i-Ulema-i-Pakistan Chairman Maulana Syed Abdul Khabir Azad. Mr Azad, who is also the khateeb of the Badshahi Mosque …

KARACHI: As the Covid-19 situation gets critical in the country with a steep rise in the number of affected patients, the provincial health department announced on Tuesday a series of steps to tackle the emerging challenge. These steps included establishment of five hospitals and high dependency units with 800 beds. “In an effort to provide treatment to Covid-19 patients, the …

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Energy Omar Ayub Khan has accused the previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government of destroying the country’s economy, revealing that it had given an unbudgeted subsidy of Rs115 billion to the energy sector in its last year in power. Winding up the discussion on a motion about rising inflation in the Senate on Monday, he said the …

ISLAMABAD: Senators from less populous provinces on Tuesday portrayed a very dismal picture of the country’s undeveloped areas, claiming that people living in nearly 70pc of the total land in Pakistan did not even have basic facilities like education, health and drinking water. Taking part in the debate on a report presented by the chairman of the Senate Functional Committee …