ISLAMABAD: With the vaccination process officially launched by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday, the government is confident that Pakistani citizens will be fully inoculated by the end of the year. The National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) has drawn up detailed plans for procuring the vaccine, distributing it and administering it to the citizens […]
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Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday evening oversaw the start of Pakistan\’s coronavirus vaccination campaign, with the first jab administered to a doctor in Islamabad. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the launch of the drive, the premier congratulated his government\’s health team for moving rapidly to secure the vaccine and thanked China for donating 500,000
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday assured citizens that Pakistan was \”on its way to becoming a great nation\”, saying that every area in the country had a special quality that could be developed to its advantage. The premier made these remarks while answering the public\’s questions via telephone, in the first such session since
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International troops plan to stay in Afghanistan beyond the May deadline envisaged by the Taliban’s deal with the United States, four senior officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) said — a move that could escalate tensions with the Taliban demanding full withdrawal. “There will be no full withdrawal by allies by April-end,” one
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Chief of a banned militant group blamed for a deadly reign of terror in a border region of Pakistan has been killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, the provincial governor confirmed on Thursday. “Mangal Bagh, the leader of Lashkar-e-Islam terrorist group, was killed along with two of his comrades in a roadside bomb blast in
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Pakistan ranked 124 out of 180 countries — dropping four spots over last year — in the newly released Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International, an annual index that ranks countries based on perceptions of public sector corruption. The 2020 edition of the CPI ranked 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday accepted for hearing a petition filed by former Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui seeking restoration of his service. A five-member larger bench of the apex court headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court has ordered the release of four men accused of the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. Mr Pearl, the Wall Street Journal\’s South Asia bureau chief, was kidnapped and beheaded while working on a story about extremist groups in Pakistan. A British-born alleged militant was originally convicted of masterminding the
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PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has announced that local government elections in the province will be held on 15th September this year which has been endorsed by the provincial cabinet. He said the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is committed to decentralization of power and authority and decision making at grassroots level. The decision made by the
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Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of teachers, mostly females, from different provinces, Azad Kahmir and Gilgit-Baltistan working in Islamabad under the wedlock policy continued protesting against Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) demanding withdrawal of their repatriation orders. Starting their protest from outside the press club and then at D-Chowk on Jan 11, the teachers have
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