Punjab Chief Secretary office starts paperless working

LAHORE, May 05 (APP): Punjab Chief Secretary Zahid Akhtar Zaman launched the paperless working system here in his office on Friday. All the provincial departments would now send files through the E-FOAS system introduced with the support of Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB). Secretary Implementation […]

Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan to release in Bangladesh

ISLAMABAD, May 5th (Online): Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone’s blockbuster Pathaan is now all set to release in Bangladesh. The film is directed by Siddharth Anand of War fame and produced by Aditya Chopra under his banner, Yash Raj Films. It stars John Abraham […]

Martyred cop laid to rest, police post named after him

RAJANPUR, May 05 (APP): Police constable Ghulam Qasim who embraced martyrdom during an ongoing operation against dacoits in Katcha area was laid to rest at his native graveyard after funeral prayers here Friday. A smartly turned-out police contingent from Rajanpur presented a salute to the […]

Floods kill over 100 people in east DR Congo

Bukavu, DR Congo, May 5 (AFP/APP): More than 100 people have died after heavy rains and flooding in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province, officials said on Friday. Archimede Karhebwa, the assistant administrator of South Kivu’s Kalehe territory — which was hit by […]

Covid no longer a global health emergency: WHO

Geneva, May 5 (AFP/APP): The Covid-19 pandemic, which killed millions of people and wreaked economic and social havoc, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the WHO said Friday, warning that the threat remained. It is “with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as […]

Warning of ‘protracted’ conflict as Sudan fighting rages

Khartoum, May 5 (AFP/APP): Air strikes and gunfire rocked Sudan’s capital on Friday as fighting showed no sign of abating, despite the threat of renewed US sanctions and mounting deaths, including dozens of children. Hundreds have died in nearly three weeks of fighting between forces […]

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