KARACHI: As the Covid-19 positivity ratio rises in the country, especially in Karachi, and authorities ponder over whether to keep schools open or closed for children under 12 years of age, some private educational institutes in the metropolis have decided to revert to online classes from Wednesday. Also, the directorate of inspection and registration of private institutions of the school education and literacy department, Sindh, has issued an advisory for parents to protect their children against the Omicron variant. Pointing out that the new variant of the coronavirus is spreading at the rate of more than 40 per cent in…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
ISLAMABAD: A division bench of Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday restored Dr Tariq Javed Banuri on the post of chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC). Dr Banuri was appointed as the HEC chairman in 2018 on a four-year term. According to a notification issued by the federal government, he was supposed to retire in May this year. However, Dr Banuri was removed from the post in March 2021 on the basis of an amendment to the HEC ordinance 2002 through a presidential ordinance that reduced the chairman’s tenure from four years to two years. The division bench of the IHC…
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) and the Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) have taken serious notice of Information Minister Fawad Chaudhary’s tweet about media revenues and dismissed figures quoted by him as baseless and completely incorrect. In a joint statement issued here on Tuesday, the media associations claimed that the original source has also clarified that the figures were printed erroneously due to a technical error. The joint statement called the information minister’s tweet a classic example of fake news and an attempt to create a divide between media houses and workers. It went…
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Tuesday said there is a need to create public awareness to end taboos associated with tuberculosis (TB). Speaking at the “End TB Summit”, he said around 350,000 TB related cases were still being detected across the country on a yearly basis and there was a need to work together to bring the number down. Dr Alvi said the country now has an advantageous edge to fight against TB after gaining valuable experience in containing the Covid-19 pandemic. “We need to create awareness that TB is a curable disease. The sufferers of this disease should…
ISLAMABAD: Nine more educational institutions were sealed in Islamabad after detection of Covid-19 virus among their students and staff. Meanwhile, a smart lockdown was imposed in six localities of Rawalpindi district after emergence of more than three cases in each of the areas. Officials of the capital administration said the Islamabad Model College for Girls (IMCG), F-7/2, was sealed after detection of four cases there while three cases were traced in Islamabad Model College for Girls, Rawal Town, two cases each in Islamabad Model School for Girls, F-6/1, Islamabad College for Girls F-6/2, Islamabad Model School for Girls, G-6/2, Islamabad…
ISLAMABAD: Terming Monday night’s attack on a police party an act of terrorism, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed warned that this was a signal that terrorism had come to Islamabad. Speaking to reporters after attending the funeral of martyred Head Constable Munawar Hassan at Police Lines on Tuesday, the minister said this was the first such incident of the New Year and said that all law enforcement agencies needed to raise their guard. “This is not a matter of petty theft or dacoity, this purely is an act of terrorism,” he said. Also on Tuesday, the media arm of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban…
The female complainant in the Islamabad couple sexual harassment case, who had last week backtracked from her allegations of torture and sexual abuse by a gang, reiterated in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday the retraction of her statement and urged the court to grant her permanent exemption in the case. The case had surfaced when a video of four persons holding a couple at gunpoint, forcing them to strip and then beating them up had gone viral on social media last year in July. Initially, an FIR was registered under section 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint), 354A (assault or use of criminal…
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday observed that the missing persons’ commission had failed to cope with the menace of enforced disappearances and asked the attorney general to take steps to prosecute officials responsible for abducting citizens. During the hearing of identical petitions filed by the heirs of missing persons, IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah observed that the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances headed by retired Justice Javed Iqbal (who is also chairman of the National Accountability Bureau) has failed to recover the missing persons and this only added to the misery of the aggrieved families. Attorney…
Julia Fox is all set to make her mark in Hollywood with upcoming projects. As per EW, Kanye West’s new love flame is in talks with Madonna to play best friend Debi Mazar in the Hung Up star’s biopic. The news comes after Madonna met briefly with Julia and Kanye over dinner last week. The 63-year-old later revealed that she might cast the Uncut Gems star in the much-awaited movie about her life. ‘Went to dinner with Julia to talk about my movie and some other folks showed up,’ she wrote on social media. Madonna and Julia were also joined…
Lara Dutta is dishing rare facts about her former and current co-stars. Speaking to Bollywood Hungama in a recent episode, Lara Dutta revealed the sleeping habits of friends Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar in a fiery rapid-fire segment. Lara’s Partner co-star Salman Khan only calls her after midnight owing to his unique sleeping schedule. “He still calls me post-midnight. Salman wakes up at that time only and that is the time I receive his calls,” revealed Lara. On the mention of Akshay Kumar, Lara confessed that “He still wakes up before anybody else ever wakes up in their life.”
