PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Thursday that he is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19. The news comes just a day before the engagement of Bilawal’s sister, Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari, to a Dubai-based businessman and several days before the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) next rally in Multan scheduled for November 30. I have tested positive […]
CHRISTCHURCH: The Pakistan cricket team has been given a “final warning” by the New Zealand health authorities over “breaching isolation rules” after six cricketers tested positive for coronavirus. In a statement, carried by the local media, the ministry said that the team has been issued a final warning. Earlier today, New Zealand Cricket said that […]
ISLAMABAD: Six major generals of the Pakistan Army were promoted on Wednesday to the rank of lieutenant general, a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Babar Iftikhar said. According to the spokesperson for the military’s media wing, the approval for promotions was given in a promotion board meeting held […]
Pakistan has handed over a dossier on India’s terror campaign to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, urging him to prevail on New Delhi to desist from its illegal and aggressive activities. The secretary-general promised to “study the dossier and take appropriate action”, said Pakistan’s envoy to the UN Munir Akram, who presented the dossier to […]
The Foreign Office (FO) said the Indian government had escalated its anti-Pakistan campaign — marked by false narratives, concocted evidence, and orchestration of false flag operations — after Islamabad made public a dossier containing “irrefutable proof” of Indian sponsorship of terrorism in the country. The statement was issued in response to media queries regarding the […]
United States President-elect Joe Biden has been formally given the go-ahead by a federal agency to begin his transition to the presidency, shortly after the battleground state of Michigan certified him as the winner there. With the rapid-fire developments on Monday, President Donald Trump’s already languishing efforts to overturn his November 3 defeat appeared to […]
A meeting of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) is informed today that new cases due to Covid-19 in Pakistan have doubled in the last two weeks while the positivity ratio had increased to 7.46 percent in the last 24 hours. According to the government’s database for tracking the spread of coronavirus in the […]
Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood has said that all educational institutions, including schools, colleges and tuition centres, will close down from November 26. Earlier today, the country’s education ministers met to review Pakistan’s Covid-19 outbreak and to take a final decision on extended winter vacations for school students. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad alongside Special […]
Donald Trump has been dealt a new setback in his effort to overturn the United States’s November 3 election results as a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by his campaign that sought to throw out millions of mail-in votes in the state of Pennsylvania. US District Court Judge Matthew Brann ruled on Saturday that […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday warned that the government may be compelled to enforce a “complete lockdown” across Pakistan is coronavirus cases continue to rise at the same rate, blaming Opposition for holding jalsas and endangering people’s lives as a result. Pakistan’s second COVID 19 spike data is of concern: Increase in Covid […]
