Finance Advisor to PM assures swift, robust policy response to COVID-19
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has asked the international development partners and the government agencies...
COVID-19 can render 3m unemployed, poverty rate may surge to 33.5%: finance ministry
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Finance has informed the Senate that the coronavirus pandemic can result in an estimated Three (3) million people being unemployed and...
Peace And Depression
BY KAMILLA K.
Humans strive for many things, thinking that they will possibly make them happy, calm and joyful. They work for money, which is...
Employment of children as domestic workers must be banned: Mehnaz Aziz
ISLAMABAD: Mehnaz Akber Aziz MNA and Chairperson Special Committee on Child Rights of the National Parliamentary Task Force on SDGs strongly condemned the brutal...
Further extension in Mobile Device Blocking deadline during Coronavirus pandemic
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has further extended the deadline for blocking of mobile device IMEIs till 3rd July, 2020 for all GSMA valid...
Three killed, several injured as passenger coach rams into shop
NAUSHEHRO FEROZE: Three people were killed and several others were wounded when a speeding passenger coach rammed into a shop in Naushehro Feroze on...
Animals, sellers to be tested for virus in Asia’s ‘biggest cattle market’
KARACHI: Aisa's biggest cattle market will be set up in Karachi, even as Pakistan's coronavirus cases surge, a spokesperson said assuring that SOPs will...
Parks across Punjab reopened amid coronavirus outbreak
LAHORE: Punjab government on Friday has reopened parks in different cities of the province including Lahore amid coronavirus outbreak.
Locals, in large number, are visiting...
Islamabad High Court dismisses plea after govt withdraws Islamabad mayor’s suspension notice
ISLAMABAD: Federal government on Friday told Islamabad High Court (IHC) that notification regarding suspension of Mayor Sheikh Ansar Aziz has been decided to be...
Punjab records 2,040 cases, 22 more deaths in last 24 hours: PDMA
LAHORE; The Punjab disaster management authority (PDMA) has reported a whopping 2,040 new cases diagnosed in the last 24 hours.
Twenty two people also died...
