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LAHORE: The government should give directives to businesses to apply safety measures before Eidul Azha rather than ordering a complete shutdown, suggested officials of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). In a statement on Monday, LCCI President Irfan Iqbal Sheikh, Senior Vice President Ali Hussam Asghar and Vice …

PML-N President and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman agreed to hold a Rahbar Committee meeting after Eid to send the incumbent government home. A meeting between the two politicians took place on Monday when Fazl visited the PML-N leader at his Model Town home to discuss the …

ISLAMABAD: The government finally laid before the National Assembly on Monday the controversial ordinance aimed at allowing Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav to have consular access in line with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) amid mysterious silence of the opposition which had previously prevented it from doing so through a …

CHILAS: Five policemen belonging to the Gilgit Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) were martyred in an exchange of fire during a midnight raid in Diamer’s Chilas district on Tuesday. According to officials, five policemen including an inspector were martyred during the raid while an equal number of CTD officials were wounded in …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army on Sunday shot down another Indian spying quadcopter that intruded into the country’s airspace along the Line of Control (LoC), the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. “#PakistanArmy troops shot down an Indian spying #quadcopter in Pandu Sector along LOC,” DG ISPR Major General Babar Iftikhar said in …

KARACHI: Today, on July 27, the nation commemorates the 72nd death anniversary of Captain Muhammad Sarwar Shaheed, the first person to be awarded Pakistan’s highest military award for bravery – Nishan-e-Haider – for laying down his life during the first Pakistan-India war in 1948. Sarwar was born on November 10, …

ISLAMABAD: Major opposition parties – the PML-N and the PPP – are likely to oppose an ordinance meant to allow convicted Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav to file a review appeal against his conviction despite a request by the PTI led federal government not to politicize the “national security issue”. The …

ISLAMABAD: Various sections of society, including a federal minister, have criticised the passage of the Punjab Tahaffuz-i-Bunyad-i-Islam (protecting the foundation of Islam) Bill 2020 by the Punjab Assembly, warning that such trends would fan extremism. Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry in a tweet stated: “An environment has …

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health, Dr Zafar Mirza revealed that Pakistan reported its lowest number of COVID-19 deaths in the past three months on Sunday, when only 20 people died due to the infection. Taking to Twitter on Monday, the prime minister’s adviser disclosed that the …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday rejected reports of China’s Wuhan lab operating “covert operations” in Pakistan and creating “anthrax-like pathogens” as a politically motivated and fake story. The Foreign Office, in a statement on Sunday, said the story was composed of distortion of facts and fabrications that quote anonymous sources. “There …