Pakistan

LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday paid a visit to his grandfather's mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, paying tribute to him on his 41st death anniversary while practicing social distancing.…
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan said Sunday that he was awaiting the report by the high powered commission before taking action against those who profiteered from the sugar wheat crisis. His tweet came a day after an FIA report said…
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The World Bank’s Board  has approved a first set of emergency support operations for developing countries around the world, using a dedicated, fast-track facility for COVID-19 (coronavirus) response. The first group of projects, amounting…
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Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 52,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the United States and the death toll climbed in Spain and Italy, according to a Reuters tally of official data. Italy…
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The use of face masks in Asia during the coronavirus outbreak has been far more widespread than in the West, where governments have urged people to reserve supplies for frontline medical staff, so have they helped limit infections? Experts…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities on Thursday confirmed the death of 31 people due to novel coronavirus while the total number of cases has surged to 2291. According to official data, 845 patients have been tested positive for the epidemic…
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Sindh High Court on Thursday overturned the death sentence for British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been convicted in the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl. Defence lawyer Khawja Naveed told AFP his…
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Confirmed coronavirus infections around the world approached one million Thursday as the pandemic spread at a "near-exponential" rate, with a six-week-old baby becoming one of the youngest known victims. Half the planet is under some form…
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A Saudi minister asked Muslims on Tuesday to temporarily defer preparations for annual Haj pilgrimage amid uncertainty over the pandemic. Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia suspended Umrah over fears of the new coronavirus. “Saudi Arabia is…
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The UN chief launched a new plan to counter the potentially devastating socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling on everyone to “act together to lessen the blow to people”. “The new coronavirus disease is attacking…
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More than 42,000 have died from novel coronavirus while over 850,000 people have been reportedly infected across the world, according to a tally by British news agency Reuters. EUROPE * The number of confirmed cases in Germany has risen…
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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a telephone conversation with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on Wednesday. Expressing deep condolences on the loss of life due to the outbreak of Covid-19, FM…
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Italian doctors and unions have warned that a government policy to send patients discharged from hospital but still positive for coronavirus to care homes is like priming "biological bombs". With over 28,000 people in hospital including…
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Emergency field hospitals were readied in New York's Central Park and at the home of the US Open tennis tournament as the number of American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic surged past 4,000 -- higher than the toll in China. The…
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The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued to worsen Wednesday despite unprecedented lockdowns, as the head of the United Nations sounded the alarm on what he said was humanity's worst crisis since World War II. The…
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