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The number of COVID -19 cases in Pakistan may touch the alarming level of 1.2 million by the end of July, warned Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Sunday. The number of...

The World Health Organisation  has recommended that Pakistan should impose an “intermittent lockdown” to curb the spread of Covid-19, noting that the South Asian country doesn’t meet any prerequisites for lifting restrictions that carried out on...

The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody has resulted in massive protests against racial injustice in several major cities from California, Minnesota to Washington, DC. As tens of thousands of Americans have taken to...

With the cities and towns gradually opening, everyone needs to wear a mask at public places to keep the coronavirus away, especially when social distancing is not possible. But what kind of mask? There are extremely...

Pakistan is heading for a grim milestone of 100,000 confirmed coronavirus cases but the Government has made it clear that there would be no going back to a lockdown of the country. By Friday evening, provines...

Pakistan has declared wearing masks at public places mandatory, as 78 record deaths from coronavirus pandemic on a single day on Saturday jolted the policymakers, who have face d a lot of criticism for delayed response to...

By Iftikhar Ali in New York and Huma Nisar in Washington D.C. The grim milestone means the United States has lost more people to the novel coronavirus than the combined casualties of conflicts since the 1950s...

Amid mixed COVID-19 friends emerging in different regions, the World Health Organization has warned countries of the possibility of a second wave of coronvairus outbreak if precautionary measures are done away prematurely. The global body says...

A new UN initiative launched to counter the spread of online misinformation related to the coronavirus pandemic seeks to provide people around the world with accurate information in order to help save lives and promote global...

By Huma Nisar and Muhammad Luqman America’ top State Department official dealing with South Asia has called on China to alleviate the burden of its “predatory, unsustainable and unfair lending” to Pakistan in view of the...