Sindh’s Health Minister has opposed the Pakistan Medical Commission law adding that it will affect human resources of the medical sector in small provinces. Azra Fazal Pechuho in a statement said that the bill was passed in the parliament when most of the members were not present in the house. The same bill was earlier […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has called the beheading of a teacher in a north-western suburb of Paris an “Islamist terrorist attack”. The victim is said to have shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) to his pupils. The attacker was shot dead by police. Mr Macron said the as yet unnamed teacher was murdered […]
LONDON: Deputy High Court Judge Peter Knox sitting in the High Court London has ordered to freeze immediately all six trust properties controlled by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain, including the palatial house in West London where he currently resides with his bodyguards.The six properties that have been frozen through a court […]
KARACHI: For the first time, the Sharif family has taken substantial measures to beef up the security of former prime minister and PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif. The move comes weeks after Mr. Sharif’s fiery speech against the government and his criticism of the military establishment’s alleged interference in political matters. It also coincides with […]
HAYWARD: Darting around the pool as a group of swimmers stands in the shallow end, the robot dolphin looks much like those that jump through hoops and perform acrobatics at theme parks. But this marine creature is a robot. “When I first saw the dolphin, I thought it could be real,” said a woman who […]
A strike is being observed in Karachi over the murder of Jamia Farooqia’s Maulana Adil Khan in the city. The renowned religious scholar and his driver were killed in an attack by unidentified men in the city. Businesses in the city are closed as the traders and businessmen in the city have expressed their support […]
LASBELA: The funeral prayers of fourteen security personnel who were martyred at Coastal Highway Ormara. Were offered at Awaran Malashia in Lasbela on Friday. As per details, security personnel of Frontier Corps Balochistan and other officials attended the funeral prayers. After the funeral prayers, the dead bodies were dispatched to their ancestral towns with full […]
ISLAMABAD:In a major development, the Italian government has included Pakistan in work visa category called ‘Decreto-Flussi’, which will allow its nationals to avail seasonal and non-seasonal work visas for the year 2020-21. More than 30,000 work visas would be issued by the Italian authorities to the nationals from a few non-EU countries, including Pakistan, an […]
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday called banning the ban on the TikTok app as an illegal move and directed the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to nominate a senior officer to appear before the court on the next date of hearing and brief on the matter. In a detailed judgment, Chief Justice IHC Athar […]
Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar has urged the nation to take standard operating procedures (SOPs) for curbing the spread of the coronavirus seriously once again in the face of a rising positivity rate. “National positivity of Covid cases was 2.37 percent. This is the highest positivity rate in more than 50 days. The […]