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        The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), presented four mobile laboratories valued at $4.6 million to Pakistan’s National Institute of Health to strengthen Pakistan’s capacity to diagnose COVID-19 and other communicable diseases. The state-of-the-art facilities will improve the accuracy of diagnoses, reduce …

 Keeping up its practice of gagging freedom of expression, the Indian government has persuaded YouTube to ban a nine-plus minute short film “Anthem for Kashmir” in India which highlighted the enforced disappearances and fake encounters in India Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). A product of award-winning documentary filmmaker Anand …

  President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday approved the appointment of the additional judges of Balochistan High Court. The appointed additional judges include Advocate Iqbal Ahmed Kasi, Advocate Shaukat Ali Rakhshani, Advocate Gul Hassan Tarin, Muhammad Amir Nawaz Rana and Sardar Ahmed Aleemi. The president gave the approval on the …

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan and Turkey have vowed to further expand military-to-military ties, particularly in training and counter-terrorism domains, Inter-Services Public Relations said on Tuesday. An understanding to this effect was reached during a meeting between Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Commander Turkish Land Forces General Musa Avsever and in …

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has announced its candidate for the by-election in Karachi’s constituency NA-245 According to PPP Sindh General Secretary Waqar Mehdi, the party has nominated Muhammad Danish Khan as its candidate for the NA-245 by-election. Waqar Mehdi further said that Danish Khan was the former president of …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced a nationwide protest against the arrest of journalist Imran Riaz Khan In a statement, Former Planning Minister and PTI leader Asad Umar said that the party would stage a nationwide protest against the arrest of the ‘prominent’ journalist. The PTI Secretary-General urged the party …

        Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin-ul-Haque on Tuesday said the IT sector had vast potential and incentives to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). He made these remarks in a meeting with the representatives of the Norinco Group China, said a news release. They discussed …

        Christian Turner, British High Commissioner to Pakistan on Tuesday said that anyone from Pakistan who wanted to travel to the UK this summer, should apply for a visa as early as possible. In his video message on Twitter, the high commissioner said the applicants should allow …

The alleged mastermind of the Karachi University suicide bomb was produced before an anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday. During the court hearing today, the CTD police informed the court that the suspect is a commander of the organization Balochistan Liberation Federation-Karachi (BLF) and the mastermind of the attack on Chinese …

A passenger plane from India on Tuesday made an emergency landing at Karachi Airport due to a technical issue. According to details, the pilot of a Dubai-bound Indian Boeing 737 contacted and sought help from the control tower at Karachi Airport after the plane developed a technical fault. The control …