RAWALPINDI, Sep 5(ABC): A delegation of United States led by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee met the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). During the meeting, both sides discussed matters of mutual interest, regional security situation and bilateral cooperation in various fields. The visiting delegation expressed grief over devastation …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 6(ABC): Hot and humid weather is likely to prevail in most parts of the country during the next twelve hours. However, rain-wind/thundershower is expected in Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and eastern Punjab. Temperature of some major cities recorded this morning: Islamabad and Muzaffarabad twenty-one degree centigrade, Lahore and Peshawar twenty-six, Karachi twenty seven, Quetta twenty, Gilgit …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 5 (ABC): Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal Monday said former Prime Minister Imran Khan wasted four years of his government in pursing false cases against his political opponents. Addressing a press briefing here, the minister said Imran Khan had spent millions of rupees in baseless cases but could not prove corruption of even a …

LAHORE, Sep 5(ABC): Spurred by the twin crises of rising inflation and unemployment, a large number of Pakistanis are crossing borders through illegal channels, often falling prey to a thriving racket of smugglers exploiting their poverty. For many people fleeing poverty, getting across the borders requires them to pay huge sums and even their lives, with transnational smugglers squeezing them …

KARACHI, Sep 5(ABC): Presently the monsoon flooding does not seem to have an end in sight, which will only result in more lives being upended, further spread of diseases, and an upsurge in demand for medication that is already non-existent in markets of Punjab and Sindh. Millions of flood victims, who are currently residing in tents, are now falling prey …

LAHORE, Sep 5(ABC): A fire broke out at Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital Monday morning. Two fire engines were responding to the fire which was reported at the operation theatre located on the first floor. The patients from the nearby wards have been moved to other rooms for their safety, the hospital officials said. The fire was eventually put out without any …

LAHORE, Sep 5(ABC): Pakistan has reported two deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of confirmed positive cases has surged to 1,570,206. The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 30,593 on Monday. According to the latest figures by the National Institute of Health (NIH), at least 190 persons were tested positive for COVID-19 across …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 5(ABC): Rain with wind and thundershower is expected in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir upper Punjab and Gilgit Baltistan during the next twelve hours. Hot and humid weather is likely to prevail elsewhere in the country. Temperature of some major cities recorded this morning: Islamabad twenty-two degree centigrade, Lahore and Karachi twenty-seven, Peshawar twenty-five, Quetta seventeen, Gilgit fifteen, Murree …

ISLAMABAD, Sept 4, (ABC): “Media can play a strong role to counter the deceptive campaigns of tobacco industry to promote harmful emerging tobacco products in Pakistani youth” expressed health activists during a consultation organized by Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC). The health activists and the senior journalists explored the need to ban emerging products …

ISLLAMABAD, Sept 4 (ABC): On the special direction from Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel, the National EOC in consultation with the Provincial EOCs and the Aga Khan University has decided to establish health camps in identified flood-affected districts across Pakistan in support to the ongoing relief response efforts in the flood affected areas. Two health camps/day (one mobile and one …