Category: Politics
According to a report by Dawn, Justice Gulzar expressed his confusion on why the government is spending so much on coronavirus while hearing the suo motu case regarding measures taken to deal with the coronavirus ...
Gunmen opened fire on worshippers offering evening prayers at a mosque north of the Afghan capital Tuesday, killing at least seven people and wounding 12, a local police chief said. The gunmen fled the area ...
United States President Donald Trump recognised the services of 10-year-old Laila, an American of Pakistani origin, during a ceremony held to honour “coronavirus heroes”. According to US Embassy in Pakistan’s Twitter account, Laila distributed 100 ...
A minor, 10 year old boy was found strangled after alleged sexual assault in an under-construction plaza in the Nawab Town area on Sunday. According to what the police said the boy and his cousin ...
Two teenage girls have been murdered in a so-called “honour killing” in north-west Pakistan following a video circulated on the internet. They are said to have been shot dead by family members earlier this week ...
Pakistan will soon start production of the antiviral drug remdesivir, which has shown promise in treating the novel coronavirus, the country’s top health official and a pharmaceutical company’s chief executive announced on Friday. Production should ...
Sun has gone into lockdown, which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, scientists say. The sun is currently in a period of “solar minimum,” meaning activity on its surface has fallen dramatically. Experts believe ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that because the country cannot afford an indefinite lockdown, the nation would have to learn to live with the pandemic. At a press briefing along with some cabinet ...
It is being reported that a group of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) members allegedly attacked a Shia procession held to mark Youm-e-Ali outside an Imambargah in Karachi’s Liaquatabad area on Thursday night. Journalist Fawad Hasan shared ...
Nearly a quarter of a billion people across 47 African countries will catch coronavirus over the next year, but the result will be fewer severe cases and deaths than in the US and Europe, new ...
Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani has said that after promoting children from classes one to eight they will also do the same for the students of classes nine, 10, 11 and 12, reports ...
If Jeff Bezos’ personal fortune keeps growing at its current rate, he could become the first trillionaire by 2026 at the age of 62, according to an analysis from the software-review site Comparisun. Bezos’ wealth has ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday appointed former spokesman of Punjab government Shahbaz Gill as his special assistant on political communication, reports The Express Tribune. “The prime minister, in terms of Rule 4(6) of the ...
After her removal as the Special Assistant to PM, Firdous Ashiq Awan has sought out to mend ties with Pakistan’s People’s Party (PPP) but Bilawal Bhutto is having none of that. It has been reported ...
According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup & Gilani Pakistan, 53% Pakistanis oppose extension in the duration of the nationwide lockdown while 47% say otherwise. A nationally representative sample of adult ...
The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday demanded the federal government to include Ahmedis in National Commission for Minorities on only one condition: if their chief submits in writing that the minority religious community accepts the constitution of Pakistan ...
More than 20 million people in the US lost their jobs in April and the unemployment rate more than trebled as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the world’s largest economy, triggering a financial crisis unseen since ...
Teams under Central Contact Tracing (CCT) unit of the primary and secondary healthcare department have discovered 1,500 “hidden confirmed cases” of Covid-19 patients who had been in close contact with the Pakistani citizens who had ...
According to local news outlet in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a man killed his 19 year old wife for not serving him hot Sehri meal. The victim’s father told the local police that the accused was his ...
In a letter last month a NGO, Atulya Ganga had cited the presence of a ‘ninja virus’, called bacteriophage, in Ganga’s water that could cure Covid-19. Bacteriophage is a special type of virus that eats ...
Indian troops killed four rebel fighters in gun battles in Indian-administered Kashmir, including the senior commander, Riyaz Naikoo of the biggest separatist group fighting New Delhi in the disputed Himalayan region, reports Al Jazeera. Hundreds ...
One of two American veterans detained after a failed invasion coup by Venezuelan security forces has appeared on state television in the South American nation. Luke Denman is shown looking directly at the camera and describing ...
Towards the end of April, Gallup Pakistan, which is affiliated it Gallup International and is Pakistan’s foremost social research lab, released the results of an opinion poll regarding income and joblessness during the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
In Pakistan, congregational prayers have been allowed during the month of Ramadan, after the implementation of a 20-point plan regarding safety measures against the spread of Covid-19. However, a report on 250 at risk mosques ...
The entire Kashmir region as well as three districts in Jammu are being treated as coronavirus hotspots by the administration in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Srinagar, Bandipora, Anantnag, and Shopian were the only four districts ...
More than 10 times as many people in Germany as thought may have been infected with coronavirus, researchers have said. Researchers from Bonn University said on Monday that their preliminary study, based on fieldwork in the town ...
As Donald Trump proclaimed success in America’s fight against the coronavirus and continued to push for the US economy to reopen, it was reported on Monday that internal projections show the administration is expecting 3,000 deaths a ...
World leaders, with the notable exception of Donald Trump, stumped up nearly €7.4bn (£6.5bn) to research Covid-19 vaccines and therapies at a virtual event convened by the EU, pledging the money will also be used to ...
A brown bear has been spotted traversing a rugged and sparsely populated area of north-west Spain for the first time in 150 years thanks to a set of camera traps , reports the Guardian. Images of the ...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 3.5 million on Monday, with three quarters of them in Europe and the United States, an AFP tally based on official sources showed. At least 3,500,517 infections ...
TitTok star and rapper Ghani Tiger posted a heart wrenching video revealing the details of his father’s murder last night on his social media accounts. He says up to 50 to 60 goons with pistols ...
An annual human rights report released this week gives Pakistan a failing grade, charging that too little is being done to protect the country’s most vulnerable, including women and children. The 264-page report by the ...
Arif Wazir, a leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), died in Islamabad on Saturday after being attacked a day ago by unidentified assailants outside his home in Wana, South Waziristan, reports Dawn News. Wana ...
In a recent report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) it was found that British Pakistanis are almost three times more likely to die from the COVID-19 virus in the United Kingdom (UK) as ...
More countries across Europe are preparing to reopen schools in the coming weeks despite conflicting advice from scientists, some of whom caution against underestimating children’s potential to spread the coronavirus, reports the Guardian. Some schools and nurseries ...
Sudan looks set to outlaw female genital mutilation (FGM), in a significant move welcomed by campaigners. Anyone found carrying out FGM will face up to three years in prison, according to a document seen by the ...
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, rumored for weeks to be deathly ill or even dead, has made his first public appearance in 20 days, North and South Korean media reported Friday. Few details were immediately available, ...
A Pakistani journalist living in exile in Sweden and who had been missing since March has been found dead in a river. Sajid Hussain, who was granted political asylum in Sweden in 2019 after fleeing Pakistan, had ...
Despite the trade restrictions in place to decrease the spread of the deadly respiratory disease, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has seen a 20% increase in drug trafficking shipments bound for ...
Coronavirus patients with light symptoms arriving to stay at several Tokyo hotels are likely to get a lift from a pleasant surprise – a robot greeter in the lobby, reports Reuters. Japan is now using ...
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is facing growing pressure to publicly address an allegation of sexual assault made by Tara Reade, a former aide to his Senate office. The former vice-president has remained ...
The eels at Sumida Aquarium are finding their environment transformed by the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. They also appear to be forgetting what humans look like. Concerned that the garden eels could come to see ...
Donald Trump claims to have seen evidence to substantiate the unproven theory that the coronavirus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, despite US intelligence agencies’ conclusion that the virus was “not manmade or genetically modified”, ...
France is to sell off some of the nation’s antique furniture to support the country’s hard-pressed hospitals, reports The Guardian. The Mobilier National, the national furniture collection, is drawing up a list of objects in storage that ...
China is gearing up for its first national holiday after months of lockdowns, with authorities lowering the emergency response level for Beijing just in time to allow freer travel. On Wednesday, authorities announced a downgrade of ...
The White House has unfollowed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and the Prime Minister’s office. Three weeks ago, PM Modi became the only world leader followed by the official Twitter handle of ...
A group of doctors in Athens has reached out to the city’s homeless population, which is vulnerable to the spread of covid-19, to try and protect them. Who are they? Volunteer medics from the Doctors ...
On Thursday, PIA’s spokesman Abdullah Hafeez confirmed that the United States Department of Transportation has granted permission to Pakistan International Airlines to conduct direct flights to the United States. Why couldn’t PIA operate direct flights ...
Official global death toll crosses 225,000 At least 227,644 people have lost their lives to Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The number of confirmed cases is more than 3,193,961 globally. Trump says China ...
PM Imran Khan on Wednesday directed Ministry of Religious Affairs to include Ahmadis in the National Commission for Minorities. This is the first time the Ahmadiyya community is being included in National Commission for Minorities. ...
The university town of Lund in Sweden is to dump a tonne of chicken manure in its central park in a bid to deter up to 30,000 residents from gathering there for traditional celebrations to mark Walpurgis ...
More than 5,000 Brazilians have lost their lives to the coronavirus – even more people than in China, if its official statistics are to be believed. But on Tuesday night Brazil’s president shrugged off the ...
On Wednesday, Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, joined those who are protesting against the coronavirus lockdown of the American economy. His response came at a time when he was close to securing a ...
Suresh Tiwari from Uttar Pradesh, a lawmaker from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has asked the people of his constituency to refrain from buying vegetables from Muslim vendors to protect themselves from Covid-19. The ...
Poland will reopen hotels and shopping malls on May 4 while it will consider reopening pre-schools on May 6, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday, in a move to ease restrictions imposed to ...
A US government panel has called for India to be put on a religious freedom blacklist over a “drastic” downturn under the prime minister, Narendra Modi, triggering a sharp response from New Delhi. The US commission ...
While 341 of the 751 new cases of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) were detected in Sindh in a single day, data of the Ministry of National Health Services showed on Tuesday that the number of tests ...
In an annual report released on Monday, by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), it was revealed that India’s military budget was the third largest in the world in 2019. The United States had ...
The Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) published annual statistics that calculated 45.7 million people were internally displaced by the end of 2019 due to violence in 61 countries – making them refugees ...
Bondi Beach and two neighbouring beaches in Sydney were reopened to local residents on Tuesday after being closed a month ago due to large crowds breaking social distancing rules, reported Reuters. Australia recorded just one ...
During the course of last week, Maulana Tariq Jamil came under criticism on social media for remarks made during the pre-Ramadan telethon on National TV (you can read a breakdown of his address here). A ...
The national flag of Pakistan has been projected on the Switzerland’s Matterhorn mountain in order to show solidarity with the Pakistanis fighting coronavirus pandemic, reported Ary News The photo was shared on the official social ...
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Chairman Lieutenant General Mohammad Afzal on Monday said that Pakistan would soon attain the capacity to conduct 40,000 tests for the coronavirus per day, reports The Express Tribune. He said ...
Federal minister Ch Fawad Hussain shared on Twitter, as state-run Pakistan Television made the announcement. Firdous Ashiq Awan, the former SAPM on information has been replaced by retired Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa. Moreover, PTI Senator ...
A verified document dated 7 March which was obtained by Arab News on Sunday, states that Prime Minister’s special assistant on health, Dr. Zafar Mirza ordered an ease in quarantine restrictions at the border “for ...
On Monday, 27th March, the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Sindh stood at 4,615. However, at around 2 00 PM, Senator Murtaza Wahab shared that 341 cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed in ...
The Novel Coronavirus continues to spread in Pakistan during Ramadan, with nearly 700 new cases and close to a dozen virus-related deaths reported on Sunday. How have the stats changed in the past 24 hours? ...
Last week, Maulana Tariq Jameel was severely criticised for his remarks on women, that he made on National TV during the pre-Ramadan telethon. You can read more about that story here. While people had still ...
New Zealand has stated that it has currently eliminated the coronavirus by stopping community transmission of Covid-19. The country has only reported cases in single digits for days, and on Sunday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ...
Saudi Arabia is to abolish flogging as a form of punishment, according to a legal document seen by media outlets. The directive from the Gulf kingdom’s Supreme Court says flogging will be replaced by imprisonment ...
A doctor in the Colombian city of Cali said this week that he was forced from his apartment just eight days after he moved in because other residents of the building feared he would bring ...
The Nurses Welfare Organisation of Pakistan has called upon the federal government to impose a curfew across the country to contain the spread of the coronavirus, according to Dawn News. In a press conference on ...
More than 232,000 people may have been infected in the first wave of Covid-19 in mainland China, four times the official figures, according to a study by Hong Kong researchers. Mainland China reported more than 55,000 ...
The doctor leading the Trump administration’s vaccine agency said he was removed from his post at the Department of Health and Human Services and moved into a smaller role at another agency in retaliation for ...
The World Bank has agreed to double the size of its $250 million loan to Pakistan to $500 million to overcome health and economic crisis, reports The Express Tribune $500 million loan has been granted to ...
Dozens of Russian communists defied Moscow’s coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday by marching across Red Square to lay flowers outside Vladimir Lenin’s tomb to mark 150 years since the birth of the Bolshevik leader. Led by ...
In a recent interview of President Arif Alvi with anchor Hamid Mir, the President has made some very insensitive statements. He can be heard replying to a question based on the investigation report regarding independent ...
Muslims perform Wudhu (Ablution) five-times-a-day before the compulsory prayers and a recent report by Professor Richard Webber suggests that this religious practice might play a major role in preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus ...
A second coronavirus outbreak could emerge this winter in conjunction with the flu season to make for an even more dire health crisis, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told The Washington ...
A residential-care facility in Tokyo for babies and toddlers on Wednesday reported eight cases of coronavirus infections, local media said. One staff member at the institution had tested positive for the virus on April 16, ...
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his new U.S. immigration ban would last 60 days and apply to those seeking ‘green cards’ for permanent residency in an effort to protect Americans seeking to regain jobs ...
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres or RSF) on Tuesday released the 2020 World Press Freedom index, indicating that Pakistan has slid down another three places to reach 145th position out of 180 countries. The ...
Sweden’s northernmost town got built up around the world’s largest underground iron ore mine — which now threatens to destroy it. From more than 100 years of excavating, ever deeper and wider, cracks are reaching ...
The small Chilean beach enclave of Zapallar has turned to high-tech drones to deliver medications, masks and hand sanitizer to its elderly in remote areas as the coronavirus continues its advance across the largely rural ...
Faisal Edhi, son of world-famous philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and chairman of the Edhi Foundation, has tested positive for the coronavirus, it emerged on Tuesday. As reported by Dawn, Faisal started suffering from symptoms last ...
Mexico’s president chastised drug gangs on Monday, telling them to end violence instead of distributing food, after several reports across the country in recent days showed armed narcos handing out care packages stamped with cartel logos. ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is gravely-ill after undergoing heart surgery, it has been claimed. CNN reported that the 36 year-old leader’s condition is being monitored by US intelligence officials, who were reportedly told that ...
President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus On Twitter, he cited “the attack from the invisible enemy”, as he ...
The Jammu and Kashmir police have booked a Kashmiri photojournalist under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for posting what they have called “anti-national” content on social media. A statement issued by the police ...
In the worst act of mass murder in Canada’s history, a man disguised as a police officer went on a rampage in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, killing 16 people in their homes and ...
In a major breakthrough, intelligence agencies and local police have arrested a police officer who was working for the Indian agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). As per sources, the police officer had been facilitating ...
Former finance minister Dr Hafeez Pasha commented on the current economic crisis under Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s government and said that the government elected after 2023 General Elections would inherit a worse economy than the one ...
A cancer hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut has published an advertisement in the Dainik Jagran newspaper that it will no longer accept new Muslim patients unless the patient and a caretaker come with negative test results for ...
Religious authorities in the United Arab Emirates said medical workers treating COVID-19 patients are exempt from fasting during Ramadan and urged Muslims not to congregate for prayers during the holy month expected to start this ...
Indian intelligence agencies used money and disinformation to influence politicians in Canada into supporting its interests overseas, reported Canadian publication Global News. The report, based on federal court proceedings and a highly sensitive government document obtained ...
More than 100,000 people defied Bangladesh’s lockdown order on Saturday to attend the funeral of a senior leader of the Islamist party in the district of Brahmanbaria, authorities said. The funeral for Maulana Zubayer Ahmad ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is allowing some beaches in northern Florida to reopen, The Associated Press reported on Friday, even though the state has continued to see an increase in coronavirus cases. As of Friday, Florida ...
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has made all bus travel free and told passengers to only board by the middle doors in a bid to protect bus drivers, after 20 of them died from the coronavirus. ...
In China, citizen journalists have been some of the most reliable real time sources of information about the outbreak and the efforts to contain it. Chen Quishi, a 34-year-old former lawyer, caught the last train into Wuhan ...
A senior Saudi royal and granddaughter of the country’s founding monarch has revealed she is being held in prison and demanded that the current ruler and her cousin, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, release her and ...
Even though the country has banned pornography entirely, it continues to be one of the biggest contributors and consumers of child abuse content. But latest data has revealed an even more disturbing trend, especially as the nation has ...
The World Health Organization issued a warning Friday about coronavirus testing, saying there’s no evidence serological tests can show whether a person has immunity or is no longer at risk of becoming reinfected. “These antibody ...
Police conducted raids on Thursday to arrest three men nominated in a rape case by a woman in Kokianwala area. The woman told police that she was asked to collect ration from a room in ...
While coronavirus closures are coaxing wildlife into the abandoned streets of many a metropolis, in one Israeli city the wild pigs are assertive and, well, quite boorish. Reuters reports wild boars, some as bulky as ...
A total of 3,265 dead bodies were brought to 30 graveyards of Karachi between February 20 and April 9 (49 days), official statistics from the city’s top administrative body revealed on Thursday. The development comes after reports ...
Only half of urban and rural Pakistanis are aware of the fact that diabetics, smokers and asthmatics are at a higher risk of falling severely ill from Covid-19, says a study recently carried out by the Aga ...
The illicit practice of usury has trapped a middle-income family in Rawalpindi with a loan shark demanding a man give his daughter in marriage to pay off his debt. The case has landed in court ...
Hundreds of opponents of Michigan’s social distancing measures rallied in their cars in the state capital on Wednesday, snarling traffic and even blocking a hospital entrance in a protest against an executive order intended to halt the spread ...
An elderly man allegedly set himself on fire and died after some local residents labelled him a coronavirus patient in Ghaziabad area, the police said on Thursday. Identified as Hanif Ahmad, 68, the deceased was ...
Married as a child and wrongly imprisoned for nearly 20 years over the murder of her husband, Rani Bibi is now free and fighting for compensation in a test case for thousands of other false ...
An applicant had filed a plea with the Sindh High Court to overrule the government’s ban on congregational prayers. The ban was put into place in view of social distancing – to curb the spread ...
As the lockdown eases for several industries in Pakistan but still has been extended by 2 weeks for the common man, we can’t wonder but ask the question, is the lockdown doing any good? Because ...
The former vice-chancellor of the University of Health Sciences has claimed that the current outbreak of coronavirus can prove to be even more dangerous from April 26 to May 10 as the virus has been ...
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to give a one-year relief to Islamabad, keepin in view the country’s struggle against the coronavirus pandemic. The foreign ...
Poland will reopen parks and forests on Monday and then revise the rules on the number of customers allowed in shops, as the country starts to loosen its coronavirus lockdown, State Assets Minister Jacek Sasin ...
A hospital in Ahmedabad has been placing its coronavirus patients in different wards on the basis of their religious identity, claiming it was based on a decision made by the Gujarat government, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday. At ...
Even as Covid-19 has brought the protests in Hong Kong to a near standstill, the struggle continues over the future of this city. Hong Kong’s judicial system is particularly under threat from the Beijing Communist ...
Schools in Denmark have started reopening, after a month-long closure over the novel coronavirus. The Nordic country is the first in Europe to start opening up nurseries, kindergartens and primary schools after they were closed on 12 ...
China concealed crucial information about the novel coronavirus outbreak from the rest of the world and so should answer for its deceit, the former head of Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service said on Wednesday. U.S. ...
Austin Independent School District (ISD) has deployed 110 school buses now equipped with WiFi to neighborhoods and apartment complexes where the district identified the highest need for internet access. Starting on Monday, the district “strategically positions” the buses, which ...
Ulema from various schools of thought held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday to declare that the lockdown will no longer be implemented at mosques. Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rahman said that Tarawih prayers and Itikaf will continue ...
The United States may need to endure social distancing measures adopted during the coronavirus outbreak until 2022, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. The study comes as more than 2,200 people ...
A zoo director in northern Germany has admitted that some animals might soon have to be fed to others, if the zoo is to survive. “We’ve listed the animals we’ll have to slaughter first,” Neumünster ...
The U.S. will suspend funding to the World Health Organization while it reviews the agency’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, saying the international health agency made mistakes that “caused so much death” ...
In the ongoing National Coordination Committee meeting, PM Imran Khan has announced the extension of lockdown by two weeks. Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that the National Coordination Committee has decided to start operations ...
NSO Group was implicated in the hacking and spying of activists in Mexico. Although the company strongly denies it, it’s alleged to have helped the Saudi government in its brutal operation to kill and behead Washington Post journalist ...
The Islamabad High Court on Monday dismissed a plea filed against the 20% reduction in private schools fees and referred the matter back to the Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Authority (PIERA). During these pressing times, ...
Brazil likely has 12 times more cases of the new coronavirus than are being officially reported by the government, with too little testing and long waits to confirm the results, according to a study released ...
South Korea reported on Monday that at least 116 people who were believed to have recovered from the novel coronavirus have tested positive for the virus again, according to Reuters. South Korea said last week that ...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has ordered the federal government to remove SAPM on Health, Zafar Mirza from his post. A five-member bench of the apex court, led by Chief Justice of Pakistan, Gulzar Ahmed, ...
Modi and the ruling Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment for some time, but the current wave of Islamophobia began after authorities pinpointed the Tablighi Jamaat meeting in early March as ...
New Yorkers may have flattened the curve of coronavirus by observing a lockdown and complying with social distancing orders — but they shouldn’t expect a return to their normal life any time soon. Gov. Andrew ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday appealed for a “global initiative on debt relief” to deal with worldwide recession and help developing countries overcome disastrous impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic. In a televised message, ...
Director-General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major-General Babar Iftikhar on Monday morning said that a two-year old boy, identified as Muhammad Haseeb, embraced martyrdom as Indian troops resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violations along the Line ...
A Pakistan Army aircraft crashed while on a routine operational training mission near Gujrat, ISPR said on Monday. Both pilots, Major Umer (instructor pilot), a resident of Gujarat, and Lieutenant Faizan (student pilot) resident of ...
Nearly 45 years after Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s brutal assassination, the man known as the founder of the nation, Bangladesh executed one of his killers, Abdul Majed. Abdul Majed, a former military captain, publicly declared his ...
Famous whistleblower Edward Snowden has a dire warning for everyone grappling with the coronavirus pandemic: don’t let authoritarians exploit the crisis to claim more power. Snowden told Vice that he sees the rise of emergency laws, increased surveillance, and other ...
China is trying to ban people from playing the hugely popular Nintendo Switch game ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ because protesters are using the game to criticize President Xi Jinping and the government of Hong Kong. ...
As Italy struggles to pull its economy through the coronavirus crisis, the Mafia is gaining local support by distributing free food to poor families in quarantine who have run out of cash, authorities have warned. In recent ...
There are more than one hundred Pakistanis among the 8,000 people who have died of the coronavirus in the New York region, officials said. The week ending on Friday has been the deadliest so far ...
A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in eastern Congo, just three days before the country expected to declare an end to the outbreak, the World Health Organization said Friday. The new ...
A mob of men violently attacked a police woman in Karachi at the Jamia Masjid Haqqani in Orangi Town when she went to arrest citizens who were violating the rules of the lockdown. Sindh’s police ...
As most governments around the world confront the coronavirus crisis and are trying to do whatever that is needed protect their citizens and economies, dozens of others are seizing on the moment as an opportunity ...
Being a taxi driver these days is a high-risk job. But on top of their regular work, along with 195 Pakistanis in Barcelona, Sheraz Syed provides free rides to healthcare staff in the city. The initiative started ...
China on Thursday reiterated its willingness to continue supporting Pakistan in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic, as life in the birthplace of coronavirus began to return to normal with most departments, including transport, becoming functional ...
Frustrated, in despair and in agony over watching their families suffer weeks’ long starvation during the lockdown, three labourers of Khairpur, committed suicide. The three persons, including a daily wager, a factory worker and a ...
Dozens of members of the ruling Saudi royal family, as many as 150, have been infected with coronavirus in recent weeks, a news report said. Saudi Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – ...
A coronavirus vaccine could be ready as early as six months, leading Oxford University researchers behind a major trial in the UK say. The researchers at the prestigious varsity are confident they can roll out a jab for ...
The Christian community of Lahore has taken the decision to not hold any Good Friday events tomorrow, on April 10. The decision was taken based on the government’s orders for citizens to take precautionary measures ...
The ad on Own Shop, a dark web market, claims the vendor has been infected by coronavirus and is now selling their blood and saliva, which in theory could be immune to the virus and ...
Ukrainian officials have sought calm after forest fires in the restricted zone around Chernobyl, scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident, led to a rise in radiation levels. Firefighters said they had managed to put out ...
Donald Trump hunted for a new scapegoat on Tuesday in an increasingly frantic attempt to shift blame for thousands of American deaths from the coronavirus, accusing the World Health Organization (WHO) of having “called it wrong” ...
British Pakistani boxer Amir Khan has announced food for 10,000 Pakistani families amid the coronavirus lockdown. The former world champion took to Instagram sharing his photo and wrote, “I’m giving out food Tomorrow to the ...
A Romanian maternity unit was being investigated on Tuesday after 10 newborns tested positive for the novel coronavirus, with the suspicion they contracted the virus from healthcare staff. “The mothers tested negative, but the babies ...
A minor girl was found dead in Punjab’s Kasur district on Tuesday, allegedly killed by her father over maltreatment by his wife. District Police Officer (DPO) Kasur Zahid Nawaz Marwat said that the police received ...
A growing group of politicians, artists and athletes are returning to their medical roots to assist the health care system which is overstrained due to the ever increasing demand brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
In a recent report published by Vice News outlet, Chinese residents told the news outlet that in China almost everyone believes USA is responsible for the coronavirus outbreak. U.S. Army sergeant Maatje Benassi was among ...
At least a dozen 5G phone towers have been set on fire in the U.K. in recent days, apparently by groups who believe the next-generation cell phone technology has caused or exacerbated the spread of ...
The second laboratory test report of a resident of Hussainabad — who died on April 3 as coronavirus patient — from a known private laboratory turned out to be negative for the virus. It perhaps ...
Nineteen more relatives of two coronavirus patients tested positive in Gujar Khan after their test reports were released on Monday The new cases were close relatives of two Pakistanis who had returned from the UK ...
Punjab government has directed private schools in the province to give 20 per cent concession in school fee in addition to collecting the fees of the following two months separately. Furthermore, no employee shall lose ...
Put make-up on. Avoid nagging. Speak in a squeaky cartoon cat voice. These are just some of the steps that women in Malaysia have been asked to follow by the government in order to make ...
A 15-year-old Christian transgender, identified as Musa, was gang-raped and murdered by the ‘local thugs’ in Faisalabad on Saturday. Activist Shaan Taseer posted a photo on Facebook, wherein he demanded Minister for Human Rights Shireen ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus, Downing Street has said. He was taken to a London hospital on Sunday evening with “persistent symptoms” ...
The Ministry of Planning has estimated that 12.3 million to 18.5 million people in the country will lose their jobs and the economy will sustain Rs2 trillion to Rs2.5 trillion losses in just three months ...
Low testing rates in Pakistan, India and Indonesia risk leaving the authorities blindfolded about the extent of coronavirus transmission in their countries, the World Health Organisation warned on Friday. The tree Asian countries, which together hold about 25% global ...
Internet usage in Pakistan has increased by 15 per cent as the country adjusts to life under lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak. The increase has been observed due to increased online activities by educational institutions and businesses and, ...
A man committed suicide by self-immolation in front of PM Secretariat as a protest against injustice by Murree Police. Police said that the victim, Faisal Aziz, was a resident of Dewal Sharif in Murree. He arrived at ...
Videos have emerged on social media showing sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt giving their fired captain a rousing sendoff as he left the ship. Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of duty for ...
News channel Samaa TV is facing backlash on social media for allegedly practicing racism in its coverage of the coronavirus crisis. In one of its news bulletins, the channel referred to the Sindh government as “sayeen ...
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 may spread through the air in tiny particles that infected people exhale during normal breathing and speech. Until now, experts have said that the virus, called SARS-CoV-2, doesn’t spread through the air ...
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday gave a nod to turning three- and four-star hotels into ‘quarantine centres’ where the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has planned to keep coronavirus patients. Last month the ...
A woman in Belgium has died after she refused being put on a ventilator, telling doctors to save it for younger patients. Suzanne Hoylaerts was first taken to her doctor for loss of appetite and ...
Hospitals are scrambling to sterilize and reuse N95 masks, deploying high-tech methods like ultraviolet light and concentrated hydrogen peroxide. But the father of the modern N95 mask thinks a much simpler technique could work: heating ...
Saudi Arabia has imposed a 24-hour curfew in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, extending measures to combat the novel coronavirus, while other Gulf Arab states locked down districts with large migrant worker ...
As the number of coronavirus patients keeps rising, a hope to cope with the challenge emerged here on Thursday when the first person who was reported positive on Feb 26 in the country and recovered ...
Punjab Chief Secretary (CS) Major (retd) Azam Suleman Khan has advised police to initially use punishments like making citizens walk back home instead of arresting them for violating Section 144, to sensitise them regarding social distancing, a well-placed source ...
The Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen has become the first city in the country to ban the sale and consumption of cat and dog meat amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report. The move comes ...
The total number of global coronavirus cases have crossed 1 million and the number is rising at a rapid rate with thousands of new cases emerging from around the world. The death toll has also crossed 51,000 ...
On Thursday, the Sindh High Court overturned the murder conviction of Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh, the man who was found guilty for the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The court ...
Business giant Engro has announced it would be pledging Rs1billion to the prime minister’s relief fund for coronavirus. “Mr Hussain Dawood, today, on behalf of Engro, Dawood Hercules and his family pledged a contribution in ...
India has begun converting 20,000 railway carriages into isolation wards to deal with an expected surge in coronavirus cases. Each of the carriages will be converted into medical facilities containing 16 beds each, meaning a ...
Doctors across Pakistan and all over the world are on the frontlines during the coronavirus pandemic. While a lot of them are working tirelessly in hospitals – isolating themselves from their families and risking their ...
Spain’s death toll from coronavirus has now reached 8,102. The country confirmed the world’s largest daily death increase today after a further 950 people died after testing positive for Covid-19. There are currently 110,238 confirmed ...
The watchdog for higher education has taken note of the complaints about poor quality of online university courses in the country and is ensuring corrective measures. On Wednesday, HEC said it moved on multiple complaints ...
In a significant development in the war against coronavirus pandemic, the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) has claimed to have developed a coronavirus vaccine prototype. The institute’s director, Shmuel Shapira, informed this to the ...
The vaccines, made by Oxford University and US company Inovio Pharmaceutical, have been cleared for animal testing by the World Health Organization. Australia’s national science agency will assess if the vaccines work, and if they ...
Kharian Cantonment police on Wednesday booked a doctor and two others for alleged murder of a young woman working as a maid in their house, after the report of her Covid-19 test was found to ...
The heads of three global agencies, FAO,WHO &WTO warned on Wednesday of a potential worldwide food shortage if authorities fail to manage the ongoing coronavirus crisis properly. Many governments around the world have put their ...
The global death toll from coronavirus has continued to climb, worsening on Wednesday as it hits 882,068, with 44,136 deaths. António Guterres , the United Nations Secretary has said the outbreak that has infected hundreds ...
Popular video-conferencing Zoom is leaking personal information of at least thousands of users, including their email address and photo, and giving strangers the ability to attempt to start a video call with them through Zoom. ...
Thousands of migrant workers in India have been sprayed with a bleach disinfectant after they returned home during the country’s coronavirus lockdown. Video captured by a reporter in the northern city of Bareilly shows migrants ...
Facebook and Twitter have taken action on a video from Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, removing it for infringing on their misinformation policies. The video, as reported by BBC News Brasil, showed Bolsonaro talking to a street ...
By banishing the word “coronavirus” from the Turkmen vocabulary in a radical move to suppress all information about the pandemic, Turkmenistan’s government is putting its citizens in danger, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. The state-controlled ...
Novel coronavirus has impacted 200 countries and territories, with the total confirmed cases hitting 857,487. While the pandemic is ravaging America, Spain, Italy and many others, there are a handful of countries that still haven’t ...
Saudi Arabia’s Haj minister asked Muslims on Tuesday to temporarily defer preparations for Haj amid uncertainty over the pandemic. Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia suspended Umrah over fears of the new coronavirus. “Saudi Arabia is ...
A six-month-old girl has tested positive for coronavirus in Gujrat after her father was declared a Covid-19 patient around a week ago. The infant is being kept at home, while her mother will also be ...
Every time Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has addressed the public and media about coronavirus, he’s made it very clear that he doesn’t really believes in strict lockdown or in a countrywide lockdown for ...
The Netherlands has become the latest European country to dump what it says is substandard Chinese-made equipment in the fight against coronavirus, recalling more than half a million face masks from hospitals after they failed ...
The 39-year-old father of three and a driver for a restaurant in New Delhi had to walk his way to his home village because of the lockdown imposed by government against the spread of coronavirus. ...
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