Pakistan

LAHORE: PML-M President Shehbaz Sharif has tested positive for novel coronavirus, his party said on Thursday. Confirming the news, PML-N leader Attaullah Tarar has appealed to the nation to pray for quick recovery of the opposition…
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Pakistan has been included in the group of countries that will be entitled to debt relief as part of the G20 debt relief deal, the Paris Club of creditor nations announced on Wednesday. Other countries whose debt service has been…
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Hotels have ramped up hygiene, archaeological sites have been sanitised and beaches cleaned up -- Egypt is gearing up to welcome back tourists kept away by the coronavirus pandemic. "We are laying the groundwork for tourists from around…
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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi called for revalidating the principle of shared responsibility and burden sharing for the large refugee hosting countries like Pakistan. The Foreign Minister was addressing a…
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ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa flew to Kabul to hold talks with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. According to the ISPR, the two discussed bilateral…
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An Iranian citizen who provided information to U.S. and Israeli intelligence services on the whereabouts of Iran’s slain Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani will be executed soon, Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday. On Jan. 3,…
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ISLAMABAD: Another 4646 coronavirus cases have been reported in Pakistan over the last 24 hours taking the nationwide tally to 108,317. The death toll from the virus stands at 2172 with 105 people succumbing to the disease in the last 24…
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday warned that the country would experience the peak of coronavirus cases in late July or early August and urged upon the people to strictly abide by the precautionary standard operating procedures…
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmad and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi have tested positive for COVID-19. According to a statement by the railway ministry on Monday, Sheikh Rashid is is asymptomatic…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan categorically rejected India’s malicious assertions based on complete distortion of facts to advance its false and self-serving narrative. "Even the remarks of the Prime Minister of Pakistan have been completely…
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PESHAWAR: The number of people infected by the novel coronavirus in Pakistan surged past 100, 000 as another 4728 tested positive for the disease in the last 24 hours. According to the data shared by the National Command and Control…
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Malls and temples re-opened in several cities across India on Monday despite the country recording a record daily number of new coronavirus infections, with the pandemic expected to ravage the country for weeks to come. After a 10-week…
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New Zealand lifted all domestic coronavirus restrictions on Monday after its final COVID-19 patient was given the all clear, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern revealing she danced around her living room when told about the milestone.…
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Pakis­tan on Friday witnessed its single-day death toll with 97 people succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours. It brings the total number of deaths in the country to nearly 1,935, according to figures released by the National…
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An American blogger living in Pakistan has accused former interior minister Rehman Malik of sexual assault and rape. In a video broadcast live on Facebook, Cynthia D. Ritchie alleged that one of the party's senior members had raped her…
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