Pakistan has appointed Mushaal Hussain Malik, wife of the jailed Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, as a special advisor to the country's newly appointed caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar. Her name was included in the five Special Advisor to Prime Minister list unveiled late on Thursday night after President Arif Alvi administered an oath to the 19-member caretaker Cabinet …
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Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday received half a million doses of coronavirus vaccines donated by China. The second consignment of the Sinopharm vaccine was received by Pakistan health officials at the Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi. Earlier, China donated 500,000 doses of Sinopharm on February 1, enabling Pakistan to launch vaccination drive a day later. The new consignment arrived amidst Pakistan …
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's Special Assistant on Information and Broadcasting Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa resigned on Monday, amid allegations that he used his offices to help family set up several off-shore businesses. The report alleged that Bajwa’s younger brothers opened their first Papa John’s pizza restaurant in 2002, the year he started working as a Lieutenant Colonel on …
Pakistan has agreed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposal to hold a meeting of the SAARC nations via video conferencing to discuss means to tackle the novel coronavirus pandemic that has killed over 5,000 people across the world. Hours after Sri Lanka, Bhutan and other nations agreed to PM Modi’s proposal, Pakistan also responded late at night to the appeal …
