Three test positive for coronavirus in Cantt area
RAWALPINDI – Three more patients had tested positive for the deadly coronavirus in the Rawalpindi Cantonment area while no case had been reported from the other areas of the district during the last 24 hours. According to the daily situation report issued by the District Corona Management centre on Thursday, two confirmed patients were admitted in two health facilities, including the Holy Family and Bilal Hospital. The report updated that one patient was stable and one on double oxygen support. “As many as 6,779,555 people, including 44,710 health workers, had been vaccinated against the fatal disease since the start of the vaccination drive from March 10, 2021,” it informed. In addition, District Health Authority updated that during the last 24 hours, 554 samples were collected, out of which 551 were declared negative, while the positivity rate was recorded at 0.54 per cent.
Source:The Nation
April 14, 2022 22:33 UTC
India open to additional $2b aid for Sri Lanka with eye on China
"We are definitely looking to help them out and are willing to offer more swap lines and loans," said an Indian source aware of various discussions with Sri Lanka. India's government and its central bank, as well as Sri Lanka's foreign and finance ministries, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. India has so far committed $1.9 billion to Sri Lanka in loans, credit lines and currency swaps. Sri Lanka has also sought another $500 million credit line for fuel. Sri Lanka has an outstanding debt of about $3.5 billion with China - or 10.8% of the island's total - and Beijing has also built ports and roads in the country.
Source:The Nation
April 14, 2022 19:56 UTC
Game Notes Oilers @ Predators: Get Back On Track
But in their three best they’ve allowed a total of one goal. The Oilers have improved defensively, but the next step will be trying to avoid one horrendous defensive outing every 10 games. It wasn’t like the Oilers struggled all game, but wow did they self implode on the first three goals. Tuesday’s loss reminded me of games earlier this season when the Oilers gifted goals to the opposition. If he was playing junior, he could sign an NHL contract that starts next season, sign an ATO, and still go back to junior next season.
Source:The Nation
April 14, 2022 17:41 UTC
Reference against Isa was a ‘mistake’: Imran
Former premier Imran Khan has admitted that the filing of a presidential reference for the removal of Supreme Court’s Justice Qazi Faez Isa was a mistake. Several participants of the meeting have confirmed to The Express Tribune that the ex-PM admitted that the filing of a presidential reference against Justice Isa was a mistake as the then relevant officials had misguided his government about the facts of the case. It has been learnt that former attorney general for Pakistan Khalid Jawed Khan had convinced him that Justice Isa was an honest judge and he was misled in this case. Read More: Curative review: CJ’s role ‘crucial’ in Justice Isa caseA senior PTI lawyer said that Imran believed that one section within the superior judiciary was annoyed with the party because of the filing of the reference against Justice Isa. Therefore, an onslaught has been unleashed upon the party activists, especially the social media users who openly support PTI.
Source:The Express Tribune
April 14, 2022 16:02 UTC
Special squads constituted to check unauthorised number plates on vehicles
Islamabad – Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) has constituted special squads to take action against vehicles with fancy and non-pattern number plates. Police source said that ITP fined 7,915 drivers during ongoing year having non-pattern number plates on their vehicles vehicle. He said that ITP has intensified action against fancy and non-pattern number plates and special squads have been constituted to curb this practice. He urged the citizens to cooperate with ITP and display authorized number plates issued by Excise and Taxation Office. He said action against users of non-pattern number plates would continue till complete implementation on law in this regard.
Source:The Nation
April 14, 2022 11:55 UTC
Two killed in road accident in Dipalpur
At least two persons, including a six-year-old boy, were killed in a road accident in Dipalpur on Wednesday night. According to details, the accident occurred at the Kasur Road in Dipalpur where a speeding car hit the people who were crossing the road near Pakistani Pull, killing two persons on the spot and injuring four other. Police and rescue teams reached the spot and shifted the dead and injured to hospital. Police sources said that driver of the car managed to escape from the scene after the accident.
Source:The Nation
April 14, 2022 10:42 UTC
BIMA partners with Rozee.pk to launch BHealthy – Latest News – The Nation
LAHORE – BIMA, the leading provider of digital health and insurtech services in Pakistan, has partnered with ROZEE.PK to launch its first direct-to-consumer product BHealthy. With this partnership, BIMA Pakistan will be able to reach more customers via the ROZEE.PK platform while contributing to health inclusion for ROZEE.PK users. BIMA Pakistan was launched in 2015 and has been providing its customers with round-the-clock access to doctors, home delivery of medicines, discounts on laboratory tests and coverage for hospitalization through its BIMA Sehat product. In its mission to provide affordable and accessible healthcare, BIMA Pakistan is launching four types of plans under BHealthy that provide comprehensive all-in-one health solutions – Single, Joint, Family and Family Plus. BHealthy includes telehealth services along with specialist care, personalized health programs and health screenings.
Source:The Nation
April 14, 2022 07:25 UTC
Retired generals censure malicious audio clips attributed to them
Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Mirza Aslam Beg (from left), Major General (retd) Aijaz Hussain Awan and Lieutenant General (red) Mohammad Haroon Aslam. PHOTOS: FILERetired army generals on Wednesday denounced malicious audio clips attributed to them which are being circulated on social media, terming them as "fake", a statement issued by the military’s media wing said. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the audio clips are a part of a disinformation and propaganda campaign to target state institutions. General (retd) Beg, in an audio message, condemned the fake clip, saying: "Army is my identity and my pride and every soldier and officer of it is respectable for me." He further said that the fake clip was developed in India and we should all thwart the propaganda together.
Source:The Express Tribune
April 14, 2022 05:20 UTC
Imran asks judiciary why courts opened at midnight
Addressing a massive charged crowd in Peshawar late Wednesday night, the PTI chief directly addressed the judiciary about the way the eventful Saturday night played out. Judges tell me,” Mr Khan demanded, adding he never instigated people against institutions or the judiciary, adding that he expected the “judiciary to stand with the weak”. The PTI chief noted that those who belonged to the imported government were on bail. Calling Maulana Fazlur Rehman “diesel”, Imran said the JUI-F chief had been “selling Islam for the last 30 years”. The PTI chief said he was “honoured” that he got the resolution against Islamophobia approved in the United Nations General Assembly.
Source:The Nation
April 14, 2022 04:36 UTC
TTP terrorist involved in attacks on armed forces arrested
KARACHI – The Karachi police on Wednesday arrested a suspected terrorist of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for his alleged involvement in various incidents, including attacks on armed forces and other terrorist activities. According to a spokesperson for district South police, a team of Gizri police station in a joint operation with an intelligence agency arrested Sher Daraz alias Sher Khan. During initial interrogation, the arrested confessed his involvement in attacks on military and other forces. Police recover hand grenade, 30 bore pistol along with roundsPolice also recovered a hand grenade and a 30 bore pistol along with rounds from the possession of arrested terrorist. ANF seizes heroin, ice from parcels in separate actionsThe Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) Sindh seized heroin and ice in separate actions on Wednesday.
Source:The Nation
April 14, 2022 02:25 UTC
Zahoor Ahmed Agha steps down as Balochistan governor
Days after Imran Khan was deposed as prime minister by a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly, Balochistan Governor Syed Zahoor Ahmed Agha on Wednesday tendered his resignation. As per details, the governor has sent his resignation to President Dr Arif Alvii, an official handout issued by the Governor's Secretariat said. Former PM Imran Khan had picked him from bottom and appointed him as the governor of the province. He was appointed as the governor on July 7 last year after the resignation of Justice (retd) Amanullah Khan Yaseenzai. K-P Governor Shah Farman also tendered resignation from his office, announced a governor house spokesman.
Source:The Nation
April 14, 2022 02:16 UTC
Nation will never accept 'govt of bandits': Imran
Days after his ouster from power, former prime minister Imran Khan has told a massive crowd in Peshawar that his party doesn't approve of the new government and the nation will never accept the bandits imposed upon them. "[Prime Minister] Shehbaz Sharif is currently facing cases of Rs40 billion corruption," he said and asked, "how can we accept him as our prime minister." He went on to add that "all others who think we will accept this regime should know that this isn't the 1970s." Imran, who is also the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), said he will force the government to hold elections. He went on to say that the Pakistani nation is now aware of everything and wouldn’t accept an "imported" government at any cost.
Source:The Nation
April 13, 2022 23:03 UTC
Comparing the Leafs special teams to see if it can be the key to playoff success
After getting absolutely destroyed by Buffalo on Tuesday night, it wouldn’t hurt to feel a little good about something, so it’s time to talk about special teams. Or at least comparing them to the rest of the league to feel better about the Leafs. Heading into Tuesday night the Leafs were pretty close to 30%, at 29.4% success rate on the powerplay. The interesting thing that NHL.com does is track the “net” powerplay and penalty kill results, counting goals against on the powerplay and goals for on the penalty kill as -1 on the overall numbers. It also doesn’t really account for the number of times that some teams are involved in fewer special teams situations than others, in fact at this point there’s a range of the Predators and Canadiens being on special teams 470 times down to the Islanders who have only found themselves in 359 special team situations.
Source:The Nation
April 13, 2022 19:49 UTC
US hopeful of continuing healthy ties with Pakistan armed forces
The remarks by the Pentagon spokesperson came amid an anti-US campaign by the head of the former ruling party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, after his ouster from the post of the prime minister of Pakistan. Imran had alleged a foreign conspiracy behind his removal and the installation of the new government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. “And we do have a healthy military-to-military relationship with Pakistani armed forces. And I'm certainly not going to, again, wade into internal domestic politics in Pakistan.”PM reaffirms tiesIn response to the statements by the US, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif welcomed the US's “reaffirmation of long-standing ties with Pakistan”. We have noted the comments made by the @WhiteHouse on assumption of office by Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif.
Source:The Express Tribune
April 13, 2022 19:46 UTC
Govt doesn’t believe in victimisation, says PM
Talking to journalists at Iftar dinner hosted by him at the PM house, the prime minister said, the main focus of the coalition government was to introduce electoral reforms. PM Shehbaz Sharif said that the coalition government inherited the serious economic challenges including record inflation, unemployment, and poverty. To a question, the prime minister hoped that being the coalition partner, the Pakistan People’s Party would join the federal cabinet. The prime minister said, by deploying the officials from all federating units, the PM House would be made to reflect as Pakistan House. Referring to the letter-gate, the prime minister asked if Kashmir and Afghanistan could be discussed in the parliament then why not the letter.
Source:The Nation
April 13, 2022 09:48 UTC