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Arresting virus spread is top priority: Umar
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Special Initiatives Asad Umar has urged people to take precautionary measures against the Covid-19 breakout seriously."Curbing the spread of...
CDWP recommends ML-1 project to ECNEC for approval
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) recommended $7.2 billion Main Line-I (ML-1) railway project of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to the Executive Committee...
POL products’ shortage: Blame laid at the door of ECC
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: The blame of the current petroleum products' supply crisis across the country is laid at the door of Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the...
PCR lab capacity enhanced to 31,400 tests per day, SC told
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was informed on Saturday that PCR laboratory testing capacity has been enhanced from 24,446 per day to 31,400 tests per day...
Link to ‘Pak Nigheban app’ unavailable
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: Coronavirus patients are facing serious problems in getting information regarding the availability of hospital beds located across the country as no link to the...
OPEC, Russia extend record oil cuts to end of July
Jun 07, 2020MOSCOW: OPEC, Russia and allies agreed on Saturday to extend record oil production cuts until the end of July, prolonging a deal that has helped...
Government to constitute ‘Data Protection Authority’
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to constitute "Data Protection Authority" that will work to curb the misuse of data and protect the personal information of...
Brazil threatens to quit WHO, Trump says US beating pandemic
Jun 07, 2020RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has threatened to pull out of the WHO over "ideological bias," as his counterpart Donald Trump said the...
Biden clinches Democratic nomination for 2020 race against Trump
Jun 07, 2020WASHINGTON: Joe Biden said Friday he had secured the delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination and face Donald Trump in November's US presidential election....
US accuses China of using Floyd death for propaganda
Jun 07, 2020WASHINGTON: The United States on Saturday accused China of using the unrest triggered by the death of George Floyd in police custody to justify denying...
Global race protests mark George Floyd’s death
Jun 07, 2020LONDON: Taking a knee, chanting and ignoring social distancing measures, outraged protesters from Sydney to London kicked off a weekend of global rallies Saturday against...
PM summons NEC meeting tomorrow
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has summoned a meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC) on Monday. Media reports said the meeting will review macroeconomic...
Bomb blamed on Taliban kills 11 pro-government Afghan militiamen
Jun 07, 2020KUNDUZ: A roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan killed 11 pro-government militiamen when it tore through a truck in a Saturday pre-dawn attack that officials blamed...
Qureshi discusses regional security with foreign policy experts
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday chaired a consultative meeting of the foreign policy experts to review the security situation of the region...
Preparation of profiles of potential taxpayers: Proposal advocates outsourcing work to data mining company
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: A unique budget proposal is under the Federal Board of Revenue's (FBR's) consideration to outsource preparation of profiles of potential taxpayers/registered persons to a...
Senior diplomat Sadiq made special envoy for Afghanistan
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: Pakistan appointed senior diplomat Mohammad Sadiq as the new special envoy for Afghanistan, with a view to step up its efforts as facilitator in...
India, China hold top military-level talks
Jun 07, 2020KARACHI: India and China yesterday held high-level talks, amid the border stand-off between the militaries of the two countries near eastern Ladakh, according to NDTV.It...
8th Indian spying quadcopter shot down: DG ISPR
Jun 07, 2020RAWALPINDI: Director General Inter Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar Saturday said Pakistan Army troops had shot down an Indian spying quadcopter...
Malik terms allegations ‘baseless and wild’
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Senator Rehman Malik on Saturday termed rape allegations levelled against him by a US blogger as "baseless and wild".The blogger,...
PPP files petition against Cynthia Ritchie
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has filed a petition to register a case against American blogger Cynthia D. Ritchie for hurling allegations against former...
Bilawal accuses federal government of fuelling Covid-19 spread
Jun 07, 2020KARACHI: Accusing the federal government of fuelling Covid-19 spread in the country, Chairman Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday announced that his...
India overtakes Italy’s coronavirus tally as lockdown easing looms
Jun 07, 2020MUMBAI: India reported a record 9,887 new coronavirus cases in one day on Saturday and overtook Italy as the world's sixth-biggest outbreak, two days before...
Flight Data, Cockpit Voice Recorders: Important information retrieved
Jun 07, 2020ISLAMABAD: Airbus has released preliminary information about the PIA plane crash on its ongoing investigation in the French facility.According to details, the Airbus management informed...
‘The American uprising’
Jun 07, 2020LETTER: Business Recorder op-ed writer Rashed Rahman in his latest contribution to the newspaper "The American uprising" has successfully carried out the 'post-mortem' of the...
Virus crisis strengthens Italy premier Conte, for now
Jun 07, 2020ARTICLE: Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's handling of the coronavirus crisis has allowed him to shed his reputation as a weak-willed puppet of other parties...
