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Prime Minister Imran Khan has thanked the people for their good wishes for early recovery from the Covid-19 infection. In a tweet on Sunday, the prime minister also thanked the people for prayers. “I want to thank everyone in Pakistan & abroad for their good wishes and prayers for the quick recovery of the first lady and I from Covid...

ISLAMABAD: Police were investigating the killing of a local journalist by an unknown gunman at a barbershop in Sindh, officials said. Ajay Lalwani, 31, a reporter for a local television station and an Urdu language newspaper, was shot multiple times while having his hair cut at a barber shop Thursday, said Ashiq Mirani, a police official. Mirani said Lalwani died in...

NEW DELHI: The Serum Institute of India (SII) has told Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Morocco that further supplies of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine will be delayed due to surging demand at home and as it works through a capacity expansion, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The news comes as India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker,...

AHMEDABAD: Virat Kohli plans to reinvent himself as a T20 opener with an eye on the 20-overs World Cup at home later this year, the India captain said after the team’s series victory against England. Kohli joined deputy Rohit Sharma at the top in Saturday’s decider. Their 94-run opening stand helped India amass 224-2, their highest total against England. It was...

JERUSALEM: Thousands of Israelis demonstrated outside the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Saturday, calling for an end to his leadership just three days before the country’s fourth election in two years. Protesters filed through streets closed to traffic by police, waving flags, banging drums, blowing horns and shouting chants to replace the 71-year-old conservative. The crowd was...

JAKARTA: AstraZeneca said on Sunday its Covid-19 vaccine contains no pork-derived ingredients, countering an assertion in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, that the drug violates Islamic law. Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical council, the Indonesia Ulema Council, said on its website Friday that the vaccine is “haram” because the manufacturing process uses “trypsin from the pork pancreas.” Still, the council...

Asghar Afghan became the most successful men's T20I captain of all time, surpassing MS Dhoni, as Afghanistan recorded their 42nd win under him in the format. Their 47-run win over Zimbabwe ensured a clean-sweep of a three-match series and extended their record over Zimbabwe to 11 wins from 12 matches, and their winning streak in T20Is in the UAE...

India defeated England by 36 runs in the fifth and final Twenty20 International to claim the series 3-2 at Narendra Modi Stadium, popularly known as Motera Stadium, in Ahmedabad on Saturday. Rohit Sharma's blistering 64 off just 34 balls laid the foundation for India's massive total of 224 for two. Skipper Virat Kohli contributed unbeaten 80 while Suryakumar Yadav scored 32...

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has invited Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Haji Muzaffar Ali Shujra to join its ranks, a private news outlet reported on Saturday. According to the report, a PML-N delegation, comprising former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former minister Miftah Ismail and some others, met Shujra and offered him to join their party. Shujra had joined the ruling...

ISLAMABAD: Shamim Mehmood, a freelance journalist, was kidnapped from Islamabad’s Sector G-6 and tortured and interrogated for four hours before his release on the Islamabad Express Highway on Saturday, according to an application filed by the victim in the Aabpara police station. The victim filed the application for investigation and prosecution of the accused persons as per the law. He also...

ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) announced on Saturday that the coronavirus vaccination centres will be closed on Sunday and national holidays like March 23. "All vaccination centres across the country will remain closed on Sundays and national holidays like March 23," said the NCOC in a statement. It advised people not to visit the vaccination centres on Sundays...

After what seemed like a very long wait but was really a short time in the production of a new drug, there are now several Covid vaccines in existence and people are being vaccinated around the world. In Pakistan too the process is underway using Sinopharm, the vaccine made in China and donated by it to Pakistan. This week...