LAHORE, Sep 12(ABC): Pakistan has reported no death in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of confirmed positive cases has surged to 1,571,098. The nationwide tally of fatalities stands at 30,599 on Monday. According to the latest figures by the National Institute of Health (NIH), at least 105 persons were tested positive for COVID-19 across the …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 12(ABC): Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Sunday has forecast rain-wind/thundershower for Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad, Upper/Central Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan, eastern and southern Sindh during the next 24 hours. Hot and humid weather was likely to prevail in other parts of the country. According to the synoptic situation, a westerly wave was affecting upper and central parts of the country. …

LAHORE, Sep 12(ABC): Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Sunday announced free solar pumps for flood-hit farmers across Punjab province. Punjab CM while addressing the ceremony in honour of the officials and members of the Lahore Press Club, announced the establishment of a patrol post in Journalist Housing Society to check the occupation mafia and said that why was …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 12(ABC): Former Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar announced that he would take part in active politics once again after December and said that the country is going through a sensitive phase due to political tension and division, adding that problems should be resolved through negotiation. On the occasion of the departure of relief materials for the flood victims in …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 11 (ABC): Pakistan Railways had been suffering losses of around Rs 90 million per day due to unexpected monsoon rains and flash floods across the country. “The relentless monsoon rains and floods have not only destroyed the many railway tracks, but also damaged the bridges which disconnected Sindh and Balochistan with other parts of the country,” officials in …

KARACHI, Sep 11 (ABC): The Wild Poliovirus Type-1 (WPV1) was detected in an environmental sample collected from a sewage line in Karachi’s Landhi area in August, Pakistan’s National Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad confirmed on Saturday. The officials of the Ministry of National Health Services said that this was the first positive environmental sample from …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 11 (ABC): Iraq has assured to increase the number of visas for Pakistani Zaireen and open all entry points for them. The announcement was made by Iraqi Interior Minister Othman Ali Farhood Moshir Al-Ghanimi on Sunday during a telephonic conversation with Pakistani counterpart Rana Sanaullah which lasted around forty minutes. Iraq assured to allow 5000 Pakistani pilgrims stranded …

RAWALPINDI, Sep 11 (ABC): As many as 169 patients were admitted to three hospitals in the city, out of which 99 tested positive while the remaining results were being processed. District Coordinator of Epidemics Prevention and Control (DCEPC), Dr Sajjad Mehmood, Sunday informed that 58 patients were admitted to Benazir Bhutto Hospital, 57 to District Headquarters Hospital and 54 to …

KARACHI, Sep 11 (ABC): Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Sunday said that 12.5 million had become homeless in Sindh, adding that the agriculture and livestock sectors suffered a loss of billions of rupees, He was talking to the media after reciting Fateha and laying a floral wreath at the grave of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on his 74th …

GUJRAT, Sep 9(ABC): Fifty percent or more of PML-Q lawmakers in Punjab are in contact with the party president Chaudhry Shujaat — a cousin of the province’s chief minister, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, who is a strong ally of PTI. Shujaat and Elahi, who were considered to be extremely close, drifted apart earlier this year when the former decided against supporting …