Pakistan has launched a $595 million funding appeal, in collaboration with the UN and its partner organisations, for meeting the countrys urgent needs in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and tackling its socio-economic impact

Pakistan Planning Minister Asad Umar announced that the government has decided to extend the countrywide lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus by 15 days

Pakistan's Sindh government has challenged the provincial verdict in the kidnapping and murder case of American journalist Daniel Pearl before the country's Supreme Court

Pakistan's National Command and Operation Centre said the total number of confirmed cases in the country stands at 11,155

The nationwide tally of Covid-19 patients stands at 10,938 with 4,706 cases in Punjab, 3,671  in Sindh, 1,474 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 552 in Balochistan, 290 in Gilgit-Baltistan, 194 in Islamabad and 51 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir

At least 492 Pakistanis, including 92 women, left stranded in the wake of travel restrictions due to coronavirus pandemic have returned to their country from Afghanistan via the Torkham border

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah expressed concern over the increasing number of confirmed coronavirus cases surfacing in the port city of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city. In a video statement, Shah said the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the virus should be strengthened, geo news reported

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages across Pakistan, it has left the transgender community in Punjab province at heightened risk of poverty and ill health because they exist on the fringes of society, a media report said

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan may go into self-quarantine after it emerged that he came in contact with an individual who tested positive for the novel coronavirus last week

Islamabad As the number of coronavirus cases surged past 8,500 in Pakistan with the addition of 425 new cases and the toll hitting 192 with 24 deaths on Monday, foreign diplomats visited the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) to observe the countrywide arrangements to control the deadly virus

Locked inside one of the six quarantine centres in Pakistan due to the coronavirus pandemic, some 200 people have been left hankering for a taste of the world outside, a media report said on Monday

Local sources have confirmed social media reports that at least eight domes of the recently renovated Sikh shrine collapsed during rain and thunderstorm on Friday evening, causing major embarrassment to Prime Minister Imran Khan's government

Another case was registered against Pakistani cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz for violating the ban on Friday congregations imposed by the government as part of its measures to stop the spread of COVID-19, it was reported

Pakistan President Arif Alvi on Saturday announced that neither the state machinery nor clerics would stop citizens from visiting mosques as almost all demands of clerics related to holding of Friday

Pakistan would allow some airlines to bring back stranded Pakistanis despite a restriction on international flights to the country, a top official said