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US donates 2.5 million Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses to Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 3 (ANI): Pakistan has received 2.5 million doses of the Moderna mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 from the United States.
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Baseless assertions: Pak rejects its designation as child soldier recruite
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 3 (ANI): Pakistan has rejected its inclusion in the US' Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA) list, saying the move depicted "a factual error and lack of understanding", and urged Washington to review the "baseless assertions" made against the Islamabad.
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Power crisis worsens in Pak's Punjab, citizens suffer 16 hours of load-she
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 3 (ANI): Pakistan is reeling under heavy load-shedding resulting in leaving citizens without electricity for 16 hours.
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Lahore HC throws out petition of sacked Major General seeking reinstatemen
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): The Lahore High Court's (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Thursday dismissed a petition of sacked Major General Manzoor Ahmed seeking his reinstatement.
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India asks Pakistan to investigate drone presence in Indian mission, preve
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Ministry of External Affairs has confirmed that a drone was spotted at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad on June 26.
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International Crisis Group urges Pakistan to pressure Taliban to reduce vi
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 1 (ANI): The Brussels-based group International Crisis Group (ICG) on Thursday urged Islamabad to pressure the Taliban into reducing violence in Afghanistan.
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Experts believe Pakistan's nuclear stockpile growing steadily
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): Pakistan is developing a robust nuclear capability that can not only deter but fight a nuclear war but the problem is that it is also dealing with internal security issues that could threaten the integrity of its nuclear arsenal.
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Almost 40 million children in Pakistan did not receive polio vaccinations:
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said in an annual report that almost 40 million children in Pakistan did not receive polio vaccinations between April and June amid the COVID-19 outbreak, when all polio campaigns were suspended.
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Pakistan's pace of COVID-19 vaccination remains 'very slow'
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): Pakistan has vaccinated around five per cent of its total population and 10 per cent of those eligible with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Yet, it still remains one of the low-ranked countries where the pace of vaccination remains very slow.
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Pakistan: Police use force to disperse protest against physical exams amid
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): Police in Pakistan's capital Islamabad resorted to using force to disperse a protest against holding in-person examinations for classes 9 to 12 scheduled to begin later this month amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A dozen students were temporarily detained.
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Imran Khan once again ignores China's genocide of Uyghurs, says he believe
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 1 (ANI): Despite the overwhelming evidence of China's genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Pakistan has said it believes in Beijing's version regarding the treatment of minorities in the region.
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Despite hike in education budgets, Pak remains worst country in terms of c
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 1 (ANI): Although Pakistan's education budgets have increased upto 2.8 per cent, the country still has the world's second-highest number of out-of-school children (OOSC) due to disparities in gender, socio-economic status, geography and availability of quality educ
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