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  ISLAMABAD: PM Imran Khan has tested coronavirus positive, SAPM Dr Faisal Sultan confirmed on Saturday. The SAPM said that the prime minister has quarantined himself at home. It is pertinent to note that PM Imran had got himself vaccinated on Thursday. Separately, PM’s aide Shahbaz Gill said the premier has mild fever and a cough “Thank God his symptoms are not severe. May the Almighty bless him with quick recovery.” He also requested to not link the matter with vaccination as immunity  develops after  a few days. Read Also: Taliban urged not to launch ‘spring offensive’, Moscow Talk ‘PM might have gotten infected  before getting vaccinated’ While speaking to Geo News, Dr Abdul Bari Khan said that the premier might have been exposed to someone having COVID-19 symptoms before the vaccination. “The virus multiples in five to six days,” he said. While responding to another question, Dr Bari said antibodies  are developed after a couple of weeks and that’s why China’s Sinopharm is a dou

  The United States, Pakistan, Russia and China on Thursday urged the Afghan Taliban to refrain from launching a “spring offensive” to avoid more bloodshed in the strife-torn country, as envoys huddled together with the Afghan government and the Taliban representatives in   taliban urged, moscow talk  Moscow on Thursday. Moscow hosted what was called “extended troika” as part of Russia’s push to break stalemate in the intra-Afghan dialogue. The meeting in Moscow that brought together delegates from Pakistan, China, the US, Qatar and Turkey along with the Afghan government and the Taliban representatives is the first of the three international conferences planned ahead of the May 1 deadline set for the foreign troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. “We hope that today’s talks will help achieve progress in the inter-Afghan talks,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the start of the meeting. The huddle in Moscow was attended by US Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, head of the Afghan

  LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has issued a written order on the application moved by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for the cancellation of PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz’s bail. A two-member bench of the LHC issued the order Wednesday in response to the plea moved by NAB Chairman Justice (R) Javed Iqbal in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case. The written order states that the order granting Maryam bail cannot be suspended immediately. It notes that the anti-graft watchdog claimed that despite repeatedly summoning the PML-N leader, she did not appear. The federal home secretary has been directed to file a detailed reply on NAB’s request by April 7. Earlier in the day, NAB Lahore summoned Maryam in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case. The PML-N leader has been directed to appear before the anti-graft watchdog on March 26 in the case. She had earlier appeared before the accountability watchdog on August 11, 2020. According to NAB’s spokesperson, the bureau has received new evid

  Quetta Gladiators owner Nadeem Omar on Wednesday said that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is to mostly blame for the failure of the PSL 2021 bio-secure bubble. “PCB chief Ehsan Mani admitted there is a lack of communication between the franchises and the cricket board,” said  Omar. The tournament was postponed earlier this month, leading to disappointment and anger among millions of sports fans across Pakistan. Omar said the PCB was “90% to blame for the failure of the bio-secure bubble”. During the show, he also called for the revival of club cricket in Pakistan. Read More: Mahnoor Baloch an ode to omre “The pillar for cricket in Pakistan is grassroots cricket and [the pillar for grassroots cricket] is club cricket,” he said, adding: “Both school cricket and club cricket.” Shedding light on the dismal situation of the infrastructure for cricket in Pakistan, Omar said former national team captain Sarfaraz Ahmed is forced to travel from his house to Karachi’s Do Talwar area to work

  Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the government — in particular Prime Minister Imran Khan and National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser — saying that the rulers claim they are out to bring electoral reforms but are looking for “another way to steal elections”. Addressing a press conference alongside PML-N general secretary Ahsan Iqbal and party spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi asked where anyone will go when the machines are “taken away” or the data is made to “disappear”. He said the people devising these ways are those “who themselves are involved in stealing elections and who themselves came into power after the most controversial elections held in Pakistan’s history“. Abbasi said this is “akin to a wolf taking care of sheep”. “And so this wolf is saying the election system must be handed over to them as they are bringing forth reforms and an inter parliamentary committee must be formed,” he continued. ‘First

  So instead of doing it myself I just asked the branch head to take the necessary measure and hire someone. Well was told on my next visit that the person hired was somehow related to the branch manager. But the hiring followed the protocol and happened “through the proper channel”. On unofficial interviews with other part-timers and employees. Read More: Tips and Tricks for Digital Marketing It was revealed that the branch manager was not a professional person and was responsible for making many unjustified decisions as well. So as the managing head, I took matters in my hand and planned to start a proper investigation of these matters. Instead of using the custom method, I used the employee monitoring feature offered by the  Phone tracker  app TheOneSpy. It was indeed the best decision of finding out about the truth by using a spy app. The employee monitoring features are useful and efficient in helping employers with every matter of the workplace. Detail of the offered features and

  LAHORE: PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will meet Punjab’s Leader of the Opposition Hamza Shahbaz to discuss the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) anti-government long march and other political developments. PML-N sources confirmed that the PPP chairperson is expected to meet Hamza at his Model Town residence today (Sunday) after which the two will hold a joint press conference. Sources said the two are expected to discuss former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s bid for Senate chairperson, the PDM’s long march, the possibility of an in-house change in Punjab and other matters. This is the first time the two leaders are meeting ever since Hamza’s release from jail. The two are expected to discuss other political developments and matters during the meeting. PML-N leader Hamza Shahbaz released from jail after 20 months Hamza had been released from jail last month following the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) decision to grant him bail in the money laundering investigation agains

  ISLAMABAD: The federal ministers on Friday expressed their disapproval of the way the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) released a press release to respond to Prime Minister Imran Khan, adding that the government is “unhappy” with the way the commission dealt with the matter. The Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry,  along with Federal Information Minister Shibli Faraz and Senator-elect Barrister Ali Zafar, was speaking to the media after the ECP fired back on PM Imran’s allegation of corruption in Senate elections. The science and technology minister clarified that the prime minister and the PTI respect the Election Commission and all the institutions of Pakistan. “There is no [truth] to the rumour that PTI will be protesting in front of the ECP tomorrow. ECP is revered by us and will remain so,” said Chaudhry. The minister, however, stated that the institutions show their “independence through their actions and not through press releases”. Read More: Syra Yousuf