UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan has said the decision to suspend the issuance of visas to Pakistani citizens was taken due to the coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions are “temporary”, it emerged on Sunday. The United Arab Emirates had last month temporarily stopped issuing new visas to citizens of Pakistan ; […]
ISLAMABAD: A sessions court in Islamabad on Saturday awarded the death sentence to Baitullah and life imprisonment to Gul Siddique for the murder of Major Mohammad Laraib of the Special Services Group (SSG) last year. Additional Sessions Judge Muhammad Ali Warriach also imposed a fine of Rs500,000 on both accused. Major Laraib was murdered on […]
Winter is here and so is Pakistan’s gas crisis. CNG stations are being closed in two provinces, while gas supply to the stations is being suspended in another two provinces. SSGC announced the closure of CNG stations in Sindh and Balochistan for two days (Mondays and Saturdays) a week on Friday. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday while daring the opposition parties on immediate resignations, predicted that the majority of their members of National and provincial assemblies would not tender resignations. “I invite them to resign today instead of tomorrow. I am predicting that the majority of them [members of assemblies] will not resign,” Imran Khan […]
Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on Friday became the second to receive emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), welcome news to a nation with a staggering Covid-19 death toll of over 307,000 lives lost. Millions of doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to be added to the US rollout; which […]
Pakistan-born Ali A Zaidi has appointed White House’s Deputy National Climate Advisor in the Biden-Harris administration. A statement issued on the Biden-Harris Transition website said Zaidi will be part of the team that advances the president-elect’s “agenda leading the world to confront the climate crisis — creating good-paying jobs, building resilient communities, and making historic […]
Microsoft Corp says it found malicious software in its systems related to an enormous hacking campaign disclosed by officials in the United States this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies. The Redmond, Washington-based company is a user of Orion, the widely deployed networking management software from SolarWinds […]
Indian troops on Friday “specifically targeted” a United Nations vehicle carrying two officers of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) from across the Line of Control, in what the Foreign Office termed a new low in their conduct. The incident occurred at around 10:45 am when Indian border forces resorted […]
Emmanuel Macron the President of the Republic of France has been diagnosed positive for CoronaVirus today, his office said in a statement. “This diagnosis was made following a PCR test performed at the onset of the first symptoms.” Macron’s office said he would isolate for the next seven days and would continue to run the […]
Fast bowler Mohammad Amir on Thursday announced a break from international cricket; saying he was being “mentally tortured” by the management of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). He said that the current environment at the PCB and the way he was sidelined from the 35-member squad for the New Zealand tour was a “wake up […]
