Down and out in Nairobi
CITY NOTES I suspect that not enough people have noticed that a year has passed since the greatest event in the history of the world happened: the PTI was elected to office.…
Rawalpindi police arrest suspected peaedophile
RAWALPINDI: A man was taken into custody on Sunday after being accused of sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl in Wah Cantt, said police. A first information report (FIR) was registered under Section…
Funds being wasted at Mohenjo Daro: archeologists
LARKANA: Archeologists have claimed that funds allocated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and other donor agencies for the developmental work at the world-renowned heritage site, Mohenjo-Daro, were being wasted owing to the incompetence of…
Another Congo patient dies in Quetta
QUETTA: Another Congo fever patient died during treatment while four new cases were surfaced here on Sunday. Head of Infectious Diseases Section Head at Fatima Jinnah Hospital Dr Sadiq said that a Congo fever patient…
Four perish, 15 injured in coach-truck collision
SHIKARPUR: Four people were killed and 15 others injured when a truck hit a coach on Indus Highway within the jurisdiction of Khanpur police station on Sunday morning. A coach was on…
Three-day anti-polio campaign in KP on Monday
ISLAMABAD: A three-day anti-polio campaign will start on Monday in twenty-seven districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to the provincial health department, more than four million children will be administered anti-polio drops during…
Customs confiscate smuggled goods worth millions
ISLAMABAD: Customs Collectorate Islamabad on Sunday has caught a container that was carrying smuggled items worth twenty million rupees, local media reported. The forty-feet long container was stopped on account of suspicion…
Gawalmandi and the food street that was
Punjab Punch In spite of its claims of making Pakistan a tourism-friendly country, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) government is oblivious to the revival of the Gawalmandi Food Street in the heart of…
Bahadurabad lynching case: Investigation team arrested for extorting money from suspect’s family
Karachi police on Saturday said that Ferozabad Station Investigation Officer Farooq Azam and his team have been booked and arrested for allegedly extorting money from family members of a suspect in the Bahadurabad…
PLRA staff working without contracts
LAHORE: Almost 3000 officials of the Punjab Land Record Authority (PLRA) have been working without an employment contract since June 2019, Pakistan Today learnt on Saturday. Pakistan Today also learnt that the…
CM Buzdar inaugarates Sehat Insaaf Card scheme in three districts
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar on Saturday inaugurated the Sehat Insaf Card Scheme for Pakpattan, Okara and Sahiwal along with seven other mega projects worth Rs800 million. The chief…
Citizen affected with Congo virus passes away at Mayo hospital
LAHORE: A citizen affected with Congo virus passed away at Mayo Hospital on Saturday. According to details, 46-year-old Arif’s blood samples were sent to the National Institute of Health (NIH) for medical…
PIMS doctors call off strike after talks with health ministry
ISLAMABAD: On directives of Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza, Secretary Health Dr Allah Bakhsh Malik met the representatives of Doctors Association who had announced a protest with…
Kartarpur project to be completed as per schedule: Sarwar
LAHORE: Governor Punjab Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar said on Saturday that the Kartarpur project would be completed in time for the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak in November, come what may.…
Rohingya in Karachi: Striving for success
KARACHI: Unlike nearly a million Rohingya Muslims living in shelter camps in Bangladesh, Noor Ahmed, 55 lodges in a huge house in a middle-income neighborhood of the eastern district of Karachi —…
Court restrains police from arresting Safdar
LAHORE: A sessions court on Saturday restrained police from arresting Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and husband of the party’s vice president Maryam Nawaz, Capt (r) Safdar after accepting his pre-arrest bail.…
CM calls for effective steps to control dengue
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has ordered all related departments to make sure through effective steps that dengue virus does nor spread and remains under control. In the directives issued by…