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Pakistan to get 16 million doses of India-manufactured COVID-19 vaccine th
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 9 (ANI): Pakistan would get a total of 16 million free doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, being manufactured in India, through the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) for inoculating 45 million people, officials told Public Accounts C
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Pakistan treating PoK its `colony', lambasts Kashmiri activist
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 9 (ANI): An exiled Kashmiri leader has lambasted Islamabad for using Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan as its colonies for over seven decades and exploiting its natural resources.
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Despite opposition's concerns about corruption, Imran Khan pushes for Broa
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 9 (ANI): Despite opposition's resistance, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday pushed for the salary, and allowances of Broadsheet inquiry commission chief Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, reported Dawn.
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Pakistan Origin Card holders ruled out for COVID-19 inoculation
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 9 (ANI): Pakistan government on Monday was exposed to its failed health system as people holding Pakistan Origin Cards (POCs) and foreign national spouses of Pakistanis were found ineligible to be inoculated against COVID-19, reported Dawn.
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Pakistan Democratic Movement nominates Gilani for Senate Chairman
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 9 (ANI): Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) on Monday formally nominated Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) as its candidate for the office of the Senate Chairman, reported Dawn. The Senate polls will be held on March 12.
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Treating Pak as 'normal neighbour' won't benefit Afghan peace process: Vic
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 8 (ANI): Reiterating that several Taliban leaders are based in Pakistan, the Afghan government on Monday said Islamabad is a direct party to the Afghanistan conflict and treating it as a "normal neighbour" would not help the peace process in the war-torn country.
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Two Pak Ministers 'locked up in container for 4 hours' to secure confidenc
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 8 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz alleged that the government took the help of secret agencies to secure the vote of confidence for Imran Khan and that two Members of the National Assembly (MNAs) who resisted were "locked
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4 Pakistan Taliban terrorists killed in security forces operations in Wazi
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] March 7 (ANI): Four Pakistan Taliban terrorists, including three terrorist commanders, were killed in two separate security forces operations in Pakistan's northwestern tribal districts of North Waziristan and South Waziristan, Xinhua reported citing an army statement.
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Pakistan opposition leaders meet to plan anti-govt march
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 7 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has convened an important meeting on Sunday to discuss plans related to the anti-government long march, a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan secured a victory in the trust vote in the National Assembly.
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Pakistan's fight for gender equality amid COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 7 (ANI): As crimes against women in Pakistan continues to mount, women across the country -- like every International Womens' Day -- would be staging an 'Aurat March' demonstrating against the atrocities that women face, but this time in a more curtailed setting d
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One killed, several wounded in Pakistan rail mishap
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 7 (ANI): One passenger was killed and several others were wounded on Sunday when Lahore-bound Karachi Express met an accident near Rohri in a city of Sukkur District in Pakistan's Sindh province, reported Geo News.
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Imran Khan's ally Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pak in talks with opposition ah
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 7 (ANI): In an apparent setback to Prime Minister Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf, its ally Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has said that the party's doors were "open for all political forces" regarding Senate chairman polls, reported Dawn.
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