Lahore has become coronavirus epicenter: Punjab health minister

LAHORE: There’s no doubt about the fact that Lahore has turned as epicenter of the novel coronavirus, confirmed Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid...

Government departments need to adopt ‘e-office culture’: President Alvi

ISLAMABAD: President Dr. Arif Alvi has said that Innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) should be adopted at the public departments to improve their...

Government forms fact finding committee to investigate petrol crisis

ISLAMABAD: A committee has been formed to look into the causes of hoarding and black market behind Petroleum crisis and a notification has also...

Coronavirus to peak late July in Pakistan, warns PM Imran

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has appealed to the public to follow the SOPs related to coronavirus. He warned that a very difficult will...

Rehman Malik sends Cynthia Ritchie Rs500mn defamation notice

ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister and senior PPP leader Senator Rehman Malik sent US blogger Cynthia Dawn Ritchie a Rs500 million defamation notice in response...

Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi tests positive for coronavirus

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and senior PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has tested positive for coronavirus on Monday. According to family sources, the former prime...

Two dead, 13 injured as five storey building collapses in Karachi

KARACHI: A five-storey building has collapsed in Lyari area in Karachi. Two dead bodies and 13 injured have been recovered from the rubble and...

PPP moves court against Cynthia Ritchie for defaming Benazir Bhutto

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has filed a petition to register a case against American blogger Cynthia D. Ritchie for hurling allegations against former...

CAA closes Nawabshah airport runway amid swarms of locusts

KARACHI: Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Saturday decided to close runway of the Nawabshah airport amid presence of locusts in the area. "The runway of...

WHO says COVID-19 disease has not ‘exploded’ in Pakistan

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said the number of COVID-19 cases in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is increasing rapidly but the disease has...