ISLAMABAD: Days after Dr Usama Riaz died due to coronavirus, another health worker in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) passed away on Sunday. 55-year-old Malik Ashdar was looking after suspected and confirmed coronavirus patients in…
ISLAMABAD: While the government has decided to suspend all domestic passenger flights from March 26, the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will not suspend its flights to Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) to accommodate people stranded…
–Supplies include three ventilators, 200,000 face masks among other things ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan-China border will be opened on March 27 for one day after Beijing decided to donate medical equipment to the Gilgit-Baltistan…
ISLAMABAD: The first doctor to get infected by coronavirus in Pakistan breathed his last on Sunday after fighting for his life for three days. Dr Usama Riaz, who hails from Chilas of…
–25 new cases of coronavirus patients confirmed in GB ISLAMABAD: In an unfortunate development, a young doctor who was on duty of screening pilgrims arriving from Iran and other areas into Gilgit…
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue on Wednesday deferred five government’s bills to protest the absence of Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Abdul…
–Rs200m sought for carrying out a feasibility study ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government’s plan of converting the Prime Minister House into a modern university is likely to cost over Rs35 billion…
ISLAMABAD: On the first day of a Turkish business delegation’s visit to the country, a number of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) and agreements for business cooperation and joint ventures were signed between…
–Premier holds meeting with lawmakers from GB to finalise draft ordinance –Govt to withdraw review appeal in SC against GB Ordinance, 2019 ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government is all set to…
–GI law needed to protect commercial heritage of goods produced in country –India claims GI on 361 products having similarity with Pakistani products ISLAMABAD: In a major development on Tuesday, a parliamentary committee…
–IPO says publishers will be made part of policy to curb copyrights violations ISLAMABAD: As the Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) Pakistan- an attached department of the Ministry of Commerce (MoC)- has recently…
–Publishers’ input will be incorporated in the draft amendments in the IPRs rules ISLAMABAD: As the Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) Pakistan- an attached department of the Ministry of Commerce (MoC)- has drafted…
— Industries Ministry will redraft and implement electric vehicles policy ISLAMABAD: Despite the fact that Ministry of Climate Change’s proposal for the first-ever Electric Vehicles (EV) policy was accepted by the federal…
ISLAMABAD: While there are dozens of corruption inquiries pending before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against the officials of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a…
–PSQCA assigned registration of products and set standards ISLAMABAD: After a long fight between the Center and provinces over establishing a uniform standard for food and other consumer items across the country,…
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to reactivate the Defence Planning and Civil Defence across the country as part of national war efforts to have a cohesive response from both military and civil…
–Int’l rating agency expects CAD to continue narrowing in current and next fiscal year –Report foresees Pakistan’s GDP growth to slow to 2.9 per cent in FY2020 from 3.3per cent in last…
