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KARACHI: Schools in Sindh will not reopen on June 1, according to a notification from the provincial education department on Friday. The official notification said that the decision to close...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday formed a committee to study and investigate the plight of women in prisons. In a statement on Twitter, the PM Office said: “The...

ISLAMABAD: Outbound international flight operations are set to resume tomorrow (Saturday), the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said Friday, at all airports with the exception of Gwadar and Turbat. The development...

KARACHI: A Pakistani drug firm said Friday is set to import an antiviral drug remdesivir — which has shown promise in treating coronavirus patients — from Bangladesh. The announcement by...

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Friday that from June 1, around 10 additional passenger trains will begin operations. The federal minister was speaking to media,...

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Asad Umar on Friday said that a special meeting of National Coordination Committee (NCC) will be held on May 31 (Monday) in...

KARACHI: Four doctors succumbed to the coronavirus in Pakistan over the past 24 hours as the country's infections surged past 64,000 on Friday. Dr Sana Fatima, who worked at a...

ISLAMABAD: The prime minister's aide on health, Dr Zafar Mirza, on Friday said that a record 2,636 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours — the highest number recorded...

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad has issued arrest warrants for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Toshakhana reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau after no one appeared...

ISLAMABAD: The ministry of health has issued a new document to ensure precautionary measures are followed while handling the bodies of suspected or confirmed cases of coronavirus. The federal government's...