Over 500,000 people vaccinated in single day: Asad Umar
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Tuesday said that over 500,000 people got vaccinated against Covid-19 in a single...
Captain, soldier embrace martyrdom; three terrorists killed in Zewa operation: ISPR
RAWALPINDI: The Security Forces on Tuesday conducted an Area Sanitisation Operation in Zewa, Kurram District on reported presence of terrorists where three terrorists were...
Qureshi stresses equitable vaccine distribution to tackle Covid challenges
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, while addressing a virtual meeting of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM), hosted by Azerbaijan on Tuesday, stressed the need...
Covid-19 pandemic: 35 cases of Delta variant confirmed in Karachi
35 cases of the highly contagious Delta variant confirmed in Karachi alone so far as fears of the fourth wave of the pandemic rise...
Ban on TLP unchanged: Fawad
ISLAMABAD: The cabinet has decided to keep the ban on the proscribed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan in place, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry announced...
Political recruitments have dismantled Railways: top judge
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed Tuesday said that the political recruitments have derailed the department of Pakistan Railways.
The chief justice gave the dressing-down while...
NADRA directs branches to turn away people not coronavirus-vaccinated
ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority on Tuesday directed field offices to turn away people who have refused a Covid-19 vaccine.
According to the...
Delta variant hits country amid fourth wave fears
ISLAMABAD: Concerns of a fourth wave of coronavirus have grown amid the emergence of the Delta variant, a strain of the virus first identified...
Book seized for printing Malala’s picture was confiscated for want of NOC: PCTB
LAHORE: A day after the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board confiscated the copies of social studies book for grade 7 ostensibly for printing the...
Taliban surge in north Afghanistan sends thousands fleeing
KABUL: Sakina, who is 11, maybe 12, walked with her family for 10 days after the Taliban seized her village in northern Afghanistan and...
Masood calls UN role in Kashmir dispute ‘disappointing’
ISLAMABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has deplored the role of the international community, mainly the United Nations, in the long-standing Kashmir...
Imran reaffirms commitment to Kashmir cause
ISLAMABAD: As people of Kashmir living on both sides of the Line of Control and around the globe observed Martyrs Day on Tuesday, Prime...
NCOC daily update: 1,590 new cases, 21 deaths from Covid-19
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday reported 1,590 new Covid-19 cases, the National Command and Operation Center announced Tuesday.
The NCOC said that the number of overall...
China hotel collapse kills eight, rescuers search for nine missing
SHANGHAI: Part of a hotel collapsed in the Chinese city of Suzhou killing eight people and rescue workers were searching on Tuesday for nine...
Tennis star Osaka gets own line of Barbie dolls
WASHINGTON: Four-time Grand Slam singles champion Naomi Osaka now has her own line of Barbie dolls.
The 23-year-old world No. 2 tennis player, who has...