Govt concentrating on speedy, sustainable uplift of merged districts: KP CM

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has termed the accelerated and sustainable development of the newly-merged districts as one of the...

Islamabad residents breathed unhealthy air in December last year: EPA

ISLAMABAD: The air quality in the federal capital was recorded unhealthy throughout December last year due to high pollution level, affecting the people...

Shehbaz imprisoned for past 100 days without proven guilty of corruption: Marriyum

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Secretary Information Marriyum Aurangzeb on Sunday said that the party’s President Shehbaz Sharif is behind bars for past...

PDM’s negative politics rejected by people: Firdous

SIALKOT: Special Assistant to Punjab Chief Minister on Information and Culture Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday said that the Pakistan Democratic Movement...

Covid-19 claims Islamabad pathologist Dr Burki’s life; 154 docs die so far

ISLAMABAD: Another doctor on Sunday succumbed to deadly novel coronavirus in Islamabad after days of battling for his life on the ventilator,...

Coronavirus kills 53, infects 2,272 in a day: NCOC

Ministry plans vaccinators’ training; more Punjab areas go under lockdown ISLAMABAD: The coronavirus pandemic claimed 53 more lives during the last twenty-four hours,...

‘Punjab ready to take back rights’: PML-N resorts to ethnic politics

--Maryam Nawaz says unless Punjab stands up, things will not change BAHAWALPUR: Kicking off the second phase of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)...

Balochistan urges ECP to postpone Pishin by-poll on security, weather issues

QUETTA: The government of Balochistan has written a letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) requesting it to postpone by-election on a...

Education ministers to discuss schools’ reopening today

ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the inter-provincial education ministers will be held via video-link on Monday with Minister for Federal Education Shafqat Mahmood in...

Indian use of quadcopters along LoC on the rise

RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Army shot down another Indian spy drone that violated Pakistan’s airspace by intruding 500 meters inside Pakistan’s side of the...

Karachi to continue shivering a few more days: Met Office

KARACHI: The Met Office has stated that the ongoing cold wave in Karachi is expected to last a few more days as minimum...

PTI govt striving hard to strengthen economy: Qureshi

MULTAN: Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was striving hard to strengthen the national...

Economic indicators showing positive trajectory: Faraz

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Senator Shibli Faraz has said that economic indicators are showing a positive trajectory as exports of...
COVID-19

New Covid strain has not reached Punjab: health dept

Punjab Primary and Secondary Health Care (P&SHC) on Sunday confirmed that the new strain of the coronavirus, which prima facie originated in...

Cops accused in Islamabad youth murder sent on remand

ISLAMABAD: A judicial magistrate in Islamabad on Sunday approved a three-day physical remand of five officials of the Counter-Terrorism Depart­ment (CTD) on...