9 December 2023
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Pakistan’s COVID-19 positivity ratio fell to 6 per cent on Tuesday, a week after reaching its highest-ever level of 7.46pc since the coronavirus outbreak began in the country earlier this year. A meeting of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) with Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar in the chair was informed today that […]

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The Sindh High Court has told authorities to submit a report identifying those responsible for the Havelian plane crash in 2016. The court was hearing a petition by the parents of a pilot who was killed in the crash. Forty-eight passengers, including TV personality Junaid Jamshed, were killed in the crash. The plane, PK-661, was […]

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A man has been arrested on charges of stealing cars in Karachi’s Saudabad. The police claimed that Dil Muhammad is a part of a 20-member ‘rickshaw gang’ that robs cars parked outside houses. The gang members would break the windows of the vehicles, steal everything inside it, and then make their escape in a rickshaw. […]

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A smart lockdown has been imposed in five neighbourhoods of Peshawar after the number of coronavirus cases in the city rose. According to a notification issued by the deputy commissioner, the lockdown will be imposed from 6pm today. The sealed areas include Sectors E-VI and N-IV of Hayatabad, University Town area bound by Circular Lane, […]

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An accountability court on Tuesday accepted Punjab Assembly Opposition Leader Hamza Shahbaz’s plea to excuse him for skipping today’s hearing of the Ramzan Sugar Mills case. Accountability Judge Amjad Nazir directed jail authorities to present him at the next hearing on December 7. Hamza’s lawyer stated before the court that his client has been released […]

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New Zealand all-rounder Mitchell Santner said he has sights sets on performing well in the upcoming fixtures against Pakistan. The left-arm spinner led the side in the dead-rubber third T20I against West Indies at Mount Maunganui. The game was abandoned due to rain. The 28-year-old batsman says the Black Caps are heading into another big […]

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Pakistani starlet Mehwish Hayat is done with people interfering in her personal life. She wants people to stop playing matchmaker and procuring ‘unnecessarily juicy headlines’ from her earlier interviews. She took to Twitter on Sunday and said that whoever she chooses to marry will be her personal decision. “Who I choose to marry is my […]

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New Zealand’s Ministry of Health have confirmed that 42 members of the touring Pakistan squad have tested negative for the novel coronavirus. The health ministry, in a statement, said that the members were tested for the pathogen on Tuesday. “Day 6 swabs were taken yesterday from the 46 members of the Pakistan cricket squad in […]

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The Government Post Graduate College for Women in Lahore’s Samnabad was sealed on Tuesday after an associate professor there passed away from the coronavirus. According to the college spokesperson, Professor Nuzhat Jameel was battling the virus for the past couple of days. “Five other teachers tested positive for the deadly virus as well after which […]

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A 27-year-old woman was killed after a fire erupted in a house in Karachi’s Surjani Town. The fire erupted in a house in the Saima Arabian Villas because of gas leakage, according to the police. The injured were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and then to the Burns Ward of Civil Hospital, Karachi. Jamal Azeem, […]

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