The number of dengue cases in Pakistan's Rawalpindi rose sharply, with 96 new cases being confirmed within the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the city to 3,368.
Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan, sisters of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan were shifted to the District Jail Jhelum from Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail on Saturday after an anti-terrorism court rejected a police request to extend their physical remand.
Pakistan's Punjab Health Department has reported a surge in dengue cases, with 149 new cases emerging across the province in the last 24 hours, according to a report by ARY News.
The Pakistan Punjab government has imposed Section 144 in Rawalpindi till October 17 to maintain the law and order situation during the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit
Ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, Islamabad and Rawalpindi will see the temporary closure of restaurants, wedding halls, cafes, and snooker clubs for five days, from October 12 to 16, as part of heightened security measures.
Rawalpindi has declared a district-wide emergency in response to a significant surge in dengue cases. Emergency measures include the establishment of dengue counters and mobilisation of teams. The WHO has raised concerns about global dengue prevalence and called for coordinated action.
Pakistan's teaching personnel in government-owned schools continue to remain agitated with the federal government's move on the conversion of government schools to private educational institutions.
The mobile phone services remained suspended in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad for the third day, continuing on Sunday amid the ongoing unrest amid Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protest in the federal capital, Geo News reported.
Calling the government "fake and victim of panic," Imran Khan-founded party said that the government is crossing all limits of fascism by depriving people of their basis rights to maintain their "illegitimate power."
A day after he failed to join the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protest in Rawalpindi, Ali Amin Gandapur, the chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, has called for a revolution, saying that there is no other option, adding that from now on, "sticks will be met with sticks, bullets will be me