A senior diplomat of the American embassy in Pakistan has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a media report said

A total of 51,593 Pakistani nationals, who had been stranded abroad due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have been repatriated, a Foreign Ministry official confirmed

Pakistan has decided to take strict administrative actions for the implementation and enforcement of the standard operating procedure (SOPs) formed by the government to contain the spread of COVID-19 amid a surge in new virus cases across the country, officials said

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) for Political Communication Shahbaz Gill said on Thursday that major markets across Pakistan will be closed as standard operational procedures (SOP) formulated to curb the spread of the pandemic were not being followed

The founder of Pakistan's major political party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain on Thursday accused the Donald Trump administration of shielding Pakistan's Army which has occupied three provinces of the country using brutal repression

The Pakistan government has abolished the 48-hour quarantine condition for air travellers and would instead be sent to their homes after a medical check-up and test at the airports, aviation sources said

The capital administration has sealed nine areas in the capital following massive outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition, 295 new cases of COVID-19 and four more deaths were reported on Wednesday

Coronavirus is breaching mortality and conformity records on daily basis in Pakistan as on Wednesday more than 5,000 cases were reported. As many as 76 new death occurred due to the deadly virus

While the French air safety organisation announced on Wednes­day that the data of the ill-fated PK-8303 black box was successfully downloaded and being analysed, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said in a letter to the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) that the pilot of the crashed aircraft did not follow the instructions of the air traffic controller (ATC)

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday vowed no compromise on national security as he received intelligence briefing amid escalating tensions with India

A whopping 4,131 new coronavirus cases were reported across the country on June 2 and 67 more died from the infection over the past 24 hours, Geo News reported

A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Wednesday granted pre-arrest bail till June 17 to Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif , a day after a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team raided his residence to arrest him in connection with cases relating to money laundering and keeping assets beyond known sources of income

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has endorsed an out-of-the-box proposal for dealing with the locust threat in the country under which people would be given financial incentives for catching locusts and encouraged to sell these insects to poultry farmers who could use them as poultry feed at a rate of Rs15 per kilogram

Sindh Minister for Human Settlement of Pakistan's southern province, Ghulam Murtaza Baloch, died of COVID-19 in the provincial capital on Tuesday, the spokesperson of the provincial government said

The Sindh Government gave the go-ahead to resume public and online transport services across the province on Tuesday, reported Geo News