Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood wants students to realize that the closure of schools doesn’t mean it is a holiday. He said the decision to close schools was done with a heavy heart. “I request all students to use this time. Not as a holiday, but to revise their courses. Do homework,” he tweeted Tuesday […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced a new round of tight restrictions in a bid to stem a surge in coronavirus infections; extending curfews to weeknights and imposing a full lockdown during the weekend. After only reporting symptomatic cases for four months, Turkey last week resumed reporting all positive COVID-19 cases that saw logged […]
GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly on Monday elected Khalid Khurshid Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf as chief minister and Pakistan Peoples Party’s Amjad Hussain as leader of the opposition. Speaker Amjad Hussain Zaidi chaired the assembly session held to elect the chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan. Mr. Khan, who was fielded by the PTI-Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen alliance, and […]
PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz on Monday said that she is not afraid of being arrested. As she has imprisoned twice before without committing any crime. She was speaking to journalists before leaving Lahore for Multan to attend the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) rally. Despite the PTI-led government’s efforts to stop public gatherings because of the […]
Doctors are studying the impact of Covid-19 on unborn babies in Singapore, where an infant delivered by an infected mother earlier this month had antibodies against the virus but did not carry the disease. The ongoing study among the city-state’s public hospitals adds to international efforts to better understand whether the infection or antibodies can […]
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has unanimously adopted a resolution condemning India’s illegal action of revoking Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s (IIOJK) autonomous status and steps to change the demography of the Muslim-majority region. “In a Resolution adopted unanimously by the 47th Session of the OIC in Niamey today, the Council of Foreign […]
The funeral prayers of Begum Shamim Akhtar; the mother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif have offered at Sharif Medical City (SMC). However as per details, the prayers led by Maulana Raghim Naeemi. Scores of PML-N leaders and workers attended it. She will be laid to rest […]
Happy Birthday Bano Qudsia!!! Google today celebrates the 92nd birthday of Bano Qudsia, a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist. She was popularly known as Bano Aapa, which means Elder Sister. Bano Qudsia, best recognized for her novel Raja Gidh. She is widely credited as one of the most significant Urdu language authors in modern times. […]
One more member of the Pakistan cricket team has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, New Zealand’s Ministry of Health said on Saturday, taking the tally of infections within the touring party to seven. Six of the 53 members of the group had tested positive for the novel coronavirus upon their arrival in New Zealand, […]
Iran’s president on Saturday accused Israel of killing a prominent Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme, state TV reported. Iran’s clerical and military rulers have threatened revenge for Friday’s killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh; who Iranian media said died in hospital after assassins gunned him down in his […]
