ISLAMABAD:The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday reserved its judgment on the maintainability of the appeal of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Faisal Vawda challenging his disqualification by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the case. The petitioner’s lawyer Waseem Sajjad argued that the ECP was not authorized to disqualify his […]
Read MoreLARKANA:Two minor children died after a wall of a house collapsed in Akhtar Colony, close to Bhains Colony in Larkana city, on Wednesday, in the limits of Rehmatpur Police Station, Larkana city. According to a police spokesman, Five-year-old Saba Changni and six-year-old Ayaz Ali Changni were playing outside their home, when a wall of a […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD:Health officials on Wednesday said that 111 new coronavirus cases were reported in the federal capital during the last 24 hours. According to an official of the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), as many as 165 cases were reported on Tuesday while 75 cases were reported on Monday. He said so far 133,388 cases […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD:”Our study documents important psychological benefits of vaccination beyond reducing the risk of severe illness and death associated with Covid-19,” said lead investigator Jonathan Koltai, PhD, Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, US. For the study, data from a nationally representative study of 8,090 adults who were interviewed regularly between March 2020 […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD:At Beijing Olympics, tourists overcame the language barrier by using high-tech apps and a smartphone-like device to avoid getting lost in translation. Visitors to the Olympics village can have a pleasant time even though they don’t speak Mandarin. With the help of high-tech apps tourists can translate from Mandarin Chinese and keep the tills ringing. […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD:Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) Wednesday forecast light rain with light snow in upper Punjab, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. Cold and dry weather is expected elsewhere in the country. According to the synoptic situation, continental air was prevailing over most parts of the country. However a shallow westerly […]
Read MoreRAWALPINDI:District level committee headed by Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rawalpindi for prevention of human trafficking and forced employment has been constituted here. Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) General, Qasim Ijaz on Wednesday while addressing the participants of the first meeting said that the committee had been formed at the district level to curb human trafficking and forced […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD:Senate Standing Committee on Science and Technology on Wednesday ratified the “Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2022” by a majority vote to shift the headquarter of Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) from Karachi. The meeting, chaired by Senator Sardar Muhammad Shafiq Tareen, discussed in detail the “Pakistan Standards and Quality […]
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