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Global COVID-19 death toll surpasses three million threshold

The global Covid-19 death toll passed three million on Saturday as the pandemic speeds up despite vaccination campaigns, leading countries like India to impose new lockdowns to fight spiralling infection numbers. It is the latest grim milestone since the novel coronavirus first surfaced in central China in December 2019 and went on to infect more than 139 million people, leaving billions more under crippling lockdowns and ravaging the global economy. An average of more than 12,000 deaths were recorded globally every day in the past week, shooting the overall toll past threeRead More


Shuffling of ministries will amount to nothing: Sirajul Haq

LAHORE, Apr 17 (DNA): Leader Jamaat-e-Islami Siraj-ul-Haq has said thatsurface-level measures and changes in ministries by the government willnot make any difference. In a statement on Saturday, he said that the impoverished public isforced to stand in long queues to get rations. Elderly citizens, womenqueue up for hours just to buy a few kilos of rations, he added. The Jamaat-e-Islami leader said that the subsidy announced in theRamadan package would also go into the pockets of the mafia. The mafiashave invested in the government and they are the ones runningRead More


Several parliamentarians offer resignation in key meeting chaired by Jahangir Tareen

LAHORE, Apr 17 (DNA): Over thirty parliamentarians Saturday called onestranged Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen at hisresidence in Lahore and held a key meeting during which severalparliamentarians offered to resign. Sources privy to the matter informed that future strategy was discussedin the sitting. The members said the option of resignations is availableif injustice continues; however, the suggestion to resign immediatelywas rejected. It is pertinent here to mention that a Banking Court in Lahore, earliertoday, extended Jahangir Tareen and his son Ali Tareen’s interim bailsin fake bank accounts case tillRead More


Pakistan attracting foreign investors through economic diplomacy: FM

DUBAI, Apr 17 (DNA): Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said thatthrough the economic diplomacy, Pakistan is diverting attention of theforeign investors and businessmen towards the enormous businessopportunities in Pakistan. Addressing at the Iftar dinner hosted by Pakistan Business Council Dubaiin Dubai today (Saturday), he expressed pleasure that Pakistan seconomic diplomacy is yielding positive results despite the Covid-19pandemic. He said that the purpose of his visit to UAE is further enhancing thebilateral trade relations and cooperation in diverse fields. The ForeignMinister said welfare and resolution of the problems of expatriatePakistanisRead More


US, Japan to work to confront issues from China: Joe Biden

WASHINGTON, APR 17 – The US and Japan will work together to handle challenges from China, said President Joe Biden on Friday. In his first in-person news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the White House, Biden said both leaders’ commitment to meet in person is indicative of the importance Japan and the US place on the relationship between the two nations. Biden said they had “a very productive discussion,” adding that he and the Japanese premier affirmed support for the US-Japanese alliance and their shared security. “We committed to working together to take on the challenges from China and on issues like the East China Sea, the SouthRead More


‘State writ can’t be challenged’: Fawad says situation in country back to normal

ISLAMABAD, APR 17 – Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said on Saturday that the writ of the state could not be challenged and that the situation in the country had returned to normal after countywide protests by the now proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) over the arrest of its chief Saad Hussain Rizvi. While speaking to the media in Rawalpindi after visiting injured police officers in the protests, the federal minister said that he congratulated the interior ministry, religious affairs ministry and provincial governments for jointly taking actionRead More