Coronavirus crisis could continue for months: Imran Khan
Says lockdown not a solution to the pandemic
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday warned that the coronavirus crisis could continue for months and lockdown was not a solution to the pandemic, as the total number of the COVID-19 infections rose to 16,117 with 358 deaths so far in the county. “We don’t know if the current situation will continue for […]
Pak National Assembly speaker tests positive
Islamabad: Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has become the latest top politician to be tested positive for the coronavirus on a day when authorities announced a record 990 new COVID-19 cases in the country. The Ministry of National Health Services on Friday said that 24 people have died in the last 24 hours, taking […]
Apni party demands fresh registration of KPs for domicile purposes
Jammu: The JKAP on Friday expressed regret that the provision of domicile does not include such Kashmiri migrants who were registered outside Jammu and Kashmir in other states and union territories, and sought fresh registration of Kashmiri Pandits. The Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) stressed the need for evolving a robust mechanism to protect […]
South Asian countries ignoring vaccination of children: UNICEF
United Nations: South Asia could face another health emergency if the unimmunised or partially immunised children in the region — nearly 4.5 million of whom live in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan — do not receive their life-saving vaccine shots due to the COVID-19 lockdowns, the UNICEF has warned. Sporadic outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, including measles […]
Kashmir a bilateral issue: UK: Labour leader
Says the issue should not divide communities in UK
London: Keir Starmer, the UK’s newly-elected Leader of the Opposition Labour Party, on Thursday said Kashmir is a bilateral issue for India and Pakistan to resolve peacefully and stressed that such divisive issues from the subcontinent should not be allowed to divide communities in Britain. In an attempt to reach out to the Indian diaspora […]
Nearly half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihoods: ILO
United Nations: Almost 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, nearly half of the global workforce, face an immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the continued sharp decline in working hours because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the International Labour Organization has said. More than 430 million enterprises in hard-hit sectors such as retail […]