ISLAMABAD: With nine persons reported dead, among them a senior doctor, and 4,027 cases of Covid-19 recorded across the country on Sunday, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) will meet on Monday (today) to deliberate on possible ways to curb the spread of the dreaded disease. The particularly bad situation obtaining in Karachi has not just hit the city’s general population hard, but also its community of healthcare professionals as up to 500 doctors and paramedics are said to have been infected by coronavirus. The national positivity rate reached 7.8 per cent, driven mainly by a whopping rate of…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
RAWALPINDI: Ruling out any chance of in-house change in the National Assembly, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Sunday said Prime Minister Imran Khan would complete his constitutional tenure. Speaking during an inspection visit to the incomplete Mother and Child Hospital (M&CH), Mr Ahmed said the health ministry and all other relevant departments would be contacted to expedite work on the hospital. “There is no threat to the PTI government from the opposition’s long marches,” he said, adding that the government would present a people-friendly budget in the next fiscal year. Talking about opposition leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz…
PESHAWAR: A probe committee has detected massive irregularities in the appointment process of 1,651 employees working on contractual basis in different institutions and offices operating under Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Workers Welfare Board. The probe into the appointment of contractual employees has been conducted on the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The contractual employees were hired for working folks grammar schools, vocational and technical institutes working the under the supervision of WWB. According to the probe report, the committee scrutinised the process of appointment of 2,910 employees and found irregularities in the recruitment of 1,651 employees. The formalities of 1,259…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari spent a busy day at Zardari House on Sunday, meeting party activists and office-bearers and receiving briefings about preparations for the anti-government long march scheduled for Feb 27. Talking to the delegations, the PPP chairman said after an increase of Rs4 in power tariff, prices of petroleum products had now been raised by more than Rs3 per litre. This was “economic murder” of the people committed by the present coalition government of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Mr Bhutto-Zardari said, adding that the PPP’s long march was aimed at saving people from inflation…
RAWALPINDI: With another spell of snowfall predicted in Murree, a comprehensive plan has been chalked out by traffic police for the convenience of those whose access to the hill station had been restricted, following the tragic death of 22 tourists in a blizzard last week. Drivers with valid licences will be allowed to travel to the hill station between 5am and 5pm. “Not more than 8,000 vehicles per day would be allowed to enter Murree Hills in normal weather conditions,” said a notification issued by the authorities concerned. However, these restrictions will not be applicable to residents of Murree, Azad…
ISLAMABAD: Extra time and opportunity being given to a disqualified joint venture of three companies by the National Highway Authority (NHA) to prove its eligibility is causing further delay in taking off of the government’s flagship project: the much-needed Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway. A smooth bidding process of the 306-kilometre motorway — an important road project of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and the only missing link in the motorway from Karachi to Peshawar — has been hampered for the third time and the project is already five years behind schedule. The latest controversy emerged when one of the bidders, after being disqualified…
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs will meet on Jan 19 to scrutinise foreign visits of Prime Minister Imran Khan and former rulers of the country besides taking up the issue of over 9,000 Pakistanis languishing in prisons of 73 different countries. The two issues were referred to the house committee by Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani on Jan 4 after a verbal clash between opposition members and a government minister as the latter targeted former rulers Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari while responding to a question asked by Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Senator Mushtaq Ahmed about foreign visits of Prime Minister Imran…
Kendall Jenner attended friends wedding with fellow models Hailey Bieber and Bella Hadid in revealing outfit last year in November. The 26-year-old supermodel’s daring wardrobe choice sent the Internet up in arms at the time. Kendall insisted that she had gotten the bride’s approval to wear a skin-baring Monôt gown. One of the world’s highest paid models’ sizzling snaps left social media users in shock, who dubbed the outfit a ‘… you’ to Kendall’s pal and insisted they would have kicked the star out if she wore it to their wedding. The discussion reoccurred in the comment section of Perez’s…
Hailey Bieber left onlooker spellbound as she flaunted her toned abs in cropped top and leggings during her latest outing in West Hollywood this week. The supermodel put her fit figure on display while heading to her car after attending a pilates class with pal Euphoria’s Alexa Demie in West Hollywood this weekend. Canadian singer Justine Bieber’s darling showed off her toned abs as she rocked a white cropped collared shirt with a white long-sleeved shirt underneath. The 25-year-old supermodel styled her layered tops with a pair of blush leggings, white socks and sneakers. Hailey Bieber spellbinds onlookers as she…
A royal expert has claimed that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s lawyers have rejected to her tweet about the couple. Royal biographer Angela Levin said, “Harry and Meghan after me again via Twitter lawyers. I said that their victim feelings happen every now and again and the rest of the time they are strong enough to tell the world how to behave. Thankfully Twitter says it is not subject to removal.” Her original tweet, which apparently elicited reaction from the lawyers of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex read, “Anyone think that H and M’s protection issue brings on the…
