A DAY after the government notified rules that define how social media will be governed in Pakistan, technology companies announced that the regulations would make it difficult for them to continue their operations in the country. The rules titled, “Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight, and Safeguards) Rules 2020,” have been framed […]
A comprehensive Danish study has found that face masks provide no clear protection from Covid-19 infection to the wearer. The study of more than 6,000 Danes published by the Copenhagen-based hospital Rigshospitalet saw no significant protection against coronavirus transmission. Researchers expected to see a halving of the risk of transmission in cases where subjects were […]
The dairy traders of Islamabad have urged the Capital Development Authority (CDA). So to allocate an area for developing a cluster of the fresh milk business. A delegation of Islamabad Fresh Milk Vendors Association (IFMA) led by its President Muzaffar Ahmed Hashmi. He visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry; where he discussed the key […]
;Member states of the Group of 20 (G20) meeting during this week’s virtual summit hosted by Saudi Arabia must call on the kingdom to release its jailed women’s rights activists, Amnesty International has said. In a statement released on Thursday, the United Kingdom-based rights group said activists who led campaigns for women’s rights in the […]
The man convicted and sentenced to death for the 2017 lynching of university student Mashal Khan will not spend his life in prison, the Peshawar High Court said on Thursday. The convict had filed an appeal with the court asking it to reduce the death sentence. The court also declared the release of 25 accused […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said the government was focusing its energies on the country’s industrialization and on increasing exports. Addressing a ceremony in Faisalabad during a one-day visit to the city. He said it was the government’s job to facilitate industrialization and the business community. “We are now working on how we can […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will make his maiden visit to Afghanistan tomorrow (Thursday), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Wednesday. “On the invitation of President Ashraf Ghani, Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Kabul on November 19, 2020,” a statement issued by the Foreign Office said. “The prime minister’s delegation will comprise Foreign […]
Former US President Barack Obama recently released his memoirs in which he said that Pakistan’s then-president Asif Ali Zardari congratulated him when he announced Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a raid in Abbottabad. According to a report, Obama’s book titled “A Promised Land,” was released on Tuesday in which he presented a detailed […]
;ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan announced to suspend political gatherings and rallies across the country as part of his government’s measures to contain the spread of the second wave of Covid-19. “We have decided to suspend rallies countrywide and we [Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf] have suspended our own [rally] and would ask others [parties] to do […]
For the second time in as many weeks, there is promising news from the race for a COVID-19 vaccine as infections surge across the United States and Europe. US biotech firm Moderna Inc on Monday said preliminary data from an ongoing phase three study of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine showed it to be 94.5 percent […]
