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Pakistan allocates $150m to procure Covid vaccine

The Pakistan federal cabinet on Tuesday approved allocating $150 million to procure coronavirus vaccine and reducing the cost of injections needed to treat the virus

PDM's fifth power show calls for Pakistan PM Imran Khan's ouster

Despite the Pakistan government's ban on holding public rallies in the wake of the unabated Covid-19 pandemic, the PDM opposition alliance staged its fifth power show in Multan which called for the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan

'SCO helps Pakistan increase engagements with regional, global partners'

A Pakistani official has said that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) provides the country with a platform for increasing engagement with key global and regional partners and forging tighter links with Central Asia

Pakistan's COVID-19 positivity rate drops to 6% even as cases increase

Even as cases continue to increase across the country, the national COVID-19 positivity rate has decreased from 7.2 per cent to 6pc, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) was told on Tuesday

Pakistan frames policy to initiate Rapid Antigen Testing

The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) was informed on Tuesday that a national policy has been framed to initiate Rapid Antigen Testing to detect the novel coronavirus swiftly

Schools were closed with a heavy heart, this is not a holiday: Pakistan's education minister

Pakistan's Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood wants students to realise that the closure of schools doesn't mean it is a holiday

Pakistan PM orders special body to oversee border management

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday ordered setting up of a special division under the supervision of an additional secretary from the interior ministry to make the border management system more effective

JuD leaders indicted in three more cases by antir-terror court in Pakistan

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) Monday indicted three leaders of the proscribed organisation Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) in three more cases of alleged terror financing and terrorism

Lahore again tops list of world's most polluted cities

Lahore has again topped the list of the most polluted city in the world, according to air pollution data released by the US Air Quality Index on Monday

70% of Pakistan's COVID-19 cases reported from five cities

Seventy per cent of Pakistan's overall coronavirus cases have been reported from the five cities of Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Peshawar and Karachi, the country's National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) revealed in its latest update

Pakistan has highest breast cancer rate in Asia: Report

Pakistan has the highest rate of breast cancer in Asia, as approximately 90,000 women are diagnosed with the disease every year out of whom 40,000 pass away, a media report said on Monday

13 killed in Pakistan road accident

At least 13 people were killed and 15 others injured in a passenger van-bus collision in Pakistan's Punjab province on Monday

PM Imran Khan visits ISI headquarters

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday visited the headquarters of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), where he was briefed on the regional and national security situation, a statement by the Prime Minister Office said

52% forced conversion cases reported in Pakistan's Punjab province

A Pakistani rights group has said that 52 per cent of cases of alleged forced conversions of women, specicially of underage girls from the religious minority communities, had occurred in Punjab province

Several Pakistani Punjab neighbourhoods put under smart lockdown

Several Punjab neighbourhoods were put under smart lockdowns on Sunday in view of the persistently rising coronavirus cases in the province