Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar said on Friday that Pakistan has so far managed to cope with the increase in critical care Covid-19 patients by proactively building the capacity of the entire system. In a series of tweets, the federal minister said that the total number of critical care patients […]
Students and social activists have begun an online campaign; demanding the resignation of Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood for his failure; to get the Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) examination postponed. O and A level students took to Twitter running a #ResignShafqatMahmood trend. They seek grades on the basis of teachers’ assessment and complete cancellation […]
Federal education minister Shafqat Mahmood on Tuesday announced that no exams will take place in the country until June 15; amid a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. A2 exams will keep running Addressing a press conference in Islamabad after a special National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) meeting; he said O and A level […]
Cambridge examinations have started on (Monday) with strict coronavirus standard operating procedures in place across Pakistan. However, the exams conducted with caution as the country reports soaring coronavirus infections amid the third wave of the virus. Desk spacing inside examination halls has done according to the recommended SOPs. In addition, the examination halls sanitized after […]
Another child succumbed to the coronavirus, said the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC); making it the third one in a week. As per an NCOC report one more child who, falling in the 1-10 years age bracket, passed away from coronavirus. The latest casualty is alarming as this makes it the 10th child, aged […]
Pakistan offered India on Saturday its “relief support” in the fight against the coronavirus, the country’s foreign office (FO) said. “Pakistan has offered to provide relief support to India, including ventilators, Bi PAP, digital X-ray machines, PPEs and related items,” FO said in a statement. The offer, according to the FO spokesperson, made “as a […]
Pakistan is consuming at least 90% of the oxygen it is producing, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s special assistant on national health services said. “We are utilizing 90% of the oxygen,” Dr. Faisal Sultan, PM Khan’s special assistant. “We need to take it very seriously.” 800 metric tonnes of oxygen Dr Sultan said the government had […]
The Edhi Foundation, in a magnanimous gesture offered a fleet of 50 ambulances and its staff to help manage the crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic in India. India’s health system is staggering owing to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the country; with several hospitals running out of oxygen to supply coronavirus […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan said he had asked the Pakistan Army to assist the police and law enforcement agencies in enforcing SOPs for curbing the spread of the coronavirus, warning that Pakistan may soon be facing a situation similar to India if the current trend continues. Addressing the nation after a meeting of the National […]
ISLAMABAD: On Wednesday night, various reports surfaced claiming actor Meera had been admitted to a psychiatric facility in New York. When she reached out for a comment, her mother confirmed that the claims were true. According to Shafqat Zahra, the Baaji star had not only been admitted to a psychiatric facility but was taken there by […]
