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LAHORE: As many as nine people were killed in two separate road accidents in Punjab on Sunday. Four members of a family were killed after a trawler collided with a motorcycle in Lahore’s Sundar area on Sunday, Geo News reported. According to rescue sources, the motorcycle collided with the trawler …

ABBOTTABAD: The Galiyat Development Authority and Abbottabad district administration, in a joint operation on Friday, sealed around 15 hotels and guesthouses in the galiyat for violating lockdown measures put in place to curb the coronavirus epidemic. It is pertinent to mention that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has imposed a complete …

ISLAMABAD: The federal government will review its decision to reopen schools in the first week of September, said Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood on Friday. Talking to a private news channel, the minister said private educational institutions could only call their teachers and administration staff on duty before September …

LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has accused PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and his cousin Chaudhry Pervez Elahi of accumulating illegal assets and money laundering, in a reply submitted to the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday. Submitting a response to the Chaudhry brothers’ petition filed at the LHC …

ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Farogh Naseem, after taking oath a few minutes earlier, told the National Assembly on Friday that the government has not given any concessions — similar to the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) — to convicted Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav. Naseem had arrived at the lower house of the …

RAWALPINDI/LAHORE: Following the Supreme Court’s directives, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Friday served show-cause notices on five of its suspended officials facing an inquiry over their alleged involvement in issuing dubious pilot licences. The Aviation Division, on the other hand, is also consulting legal experts on referring cases against …

CHITRAL: A 103-year-old man has recovered from Covid-19 in Pakistan to become one of the oldest survivors of the disease in the world, beating the odds in a country with a weak healthcare system, his relatives and doctors said. Aziz Abdul Alim, a resident of a village in the mountainous …

RAWALPINDI: An exchange of fire between two groups near Chontra police station left nine dead, including women and children, and a three-year-old girl injured, police said Saturday. Five women and four children died when members of an armed group barged into a house and opened indiscriminate firing on Friday. The …

ISLAMABAD: Noting with concern the rising number of unemployed persons in the country, the PhD Association of Pakistan (PAP) said that by the end of the year, as many as 3,000 PhDs in the country will be jobless by the end of 2020. The PAP said that the government had …

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Friday deferred the indictment of former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur once again in the mega money-laundering case. Proceedings for the reference could not be held as judge Azam Khan was not available for the hearing. Another main suspect in the …