Five women have been killed in war-torn Yemen after a projectile exploded at a wedding held on New Year’s Day in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah; officials told the local news agency. The government and Houthi rebel forces blamed each other for the Friday night bombing of the hall near Hodeidah’s airport; a […]
The Punjab government has removed Umar Sheikh from the post of Lahore Capital City Police Officer; it emerged on Friday. Sheikh has replaced with Ghulam Mehmood Dogar; who has served as a police officer for 14 years. A notification issued by the Punjab Services and General Administration Department and signed by the chief secretary. He […]
An Ethiopian refugee who became a symbol of integration in Italy, her adopted home, has been killed on her farm where she raised goats for her cheese business, police said on Wednesday. According to a local news agency, that man was initially questioned by Italian carabinieri over Gudeta’s death but was found to have no […]
Police arrested 14 people in overnight raids after a Hindu shrine was set on fire and severely damaged by a mob led by supporters of a cleric in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district, officials said on Thursday. The temple’s destruction on Wednesday drew condemnation from human rights activists and the minority Hindu community. Local police said […]
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), and National Information Technology Board (NITB) has developed a National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) to ensure efficient supply chain management and administration of the Covid-19 vaccine. However, the system will enable automated phase-wise registration of […]
Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri has said that there are no institutionalized forced conversions of minorities66 in Pakistan. He said that probes into the allegations of forced conversions revealed that most of them were “fictitious, politically motivated or based on the mala fide intention of our detractors to malign Pakistan in the international […]
Punjab Education Minister Murad Raas on Tuesday hinted that schools across the province may be closed for an extended period of time. Its said by the minister while he was addressing a ceremony on the teacher’s retirement system in Lahore. “I want to open schools,” he said. “However, we may have to go with the […]
Tehran: Iran has launched human trials of its coronavirus vaccine; health officials are optimistic about tackling the pandemic in the Middle East’s hardest-hit country. The start of the trials on Tuesday comes as Iran has managed to bring its COVID-19 fatalities down to a three-month low and as the country continues to face difficulties in […]
Pakistan on Tuesday reported its first confirmed cases of a new coronavirus strain detected in the United Kingdom earlier this year. According to the Sindh health department, 12 samples of UK returnees were taken for genotyping out of which six were positive and three showed the new variant of the Covid virus in the first […]
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has imposed an extreme cold weather emergency due to the “extraordinary cold wave” that has gripped the province. “This extraordinary cold wave is taking the form of a disaster which is likely to threaten lives of needy people who are without shelter, food, and warm bedding”; said a notification issued by […]
