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Online DeskIslamabad: Pakistan announced on Friday that it would fully resume international flights from Sunday, more than four months after the suspension of operations to prevent Coronavirus spread.These operations shall be conducted in accordance with established guidelines and SOPs as issued from time to time, the Civil Aviation Authority said.”Government of Pakistan has been pleased to allow all types of International and Domestic Flight Operations to/from all airports across Pakistan as per authorisation granted to all foreign and domestic operators PRE-COVID-I9 Summer schedule 2020, including cargo and special flight operations with effect from August 9, 2020 11.59 pm,” according to…

By Our Staff ReporterTeachers branded “radical” and “secular” are the first to be made unemployed under the change that is about to take place. Nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy and another science teacher have been sacked as a foretaste of what is to come from a University in Lahore.Pakistan saw yet another so-called educational reform in July. Imran Khan’s government decided to end its “unification” of the three education “systems” (Urdu medium schools, English medium schools and madrassa) predictably is imposing more of the madrassa on the other two streams.Teachers labelled “liberal” and “secular” are the first to be rendered jobless…

By our Staff Reporter New Delhi : Eighteen passengers were killed , a dozen injured as an Air India plane carrying 191 passengers crashed in the southern city of Calicut late in the evening on Friday. Spokesperson of Air India confined to local press in India that death toll has reached to 18 in plane crash. Several others got multiple injuries. Indian Prime Minister took to Twitter to express his grief. “Pained by the plane accident in Kozhikode. My thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones. May the injured recover at the earliest. Spoke to Kerala CM @vijayanpinarayi…

By Our Staff ReporterLahore: Living upto his promise, Prime Minister Iman Khan on Friday launched a Rs 5 trillion Ravi Urban Development Project to revive the lost glory of Lahore, struggling with the problems of pollution, sewerage and water shortage.Prime Minister Imran Khan has been keenly focousing on housing projects soon after becoming Prime Minister.According to state run Associated Press of Pakistan, Prime Minister said the modern city project was “vital to save the historical city of Lahore from environmental challenges in the wake of unplanned settlements”.The project will rehabilitate and develop the dying River Ravi into a perennial freshwater…

By our Staff ReporterIslamabad: An accountability court on Thursday indicted Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz in a corruption case.Separately, the Lahore Accountability Court issued bailable arrest warrant against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, currently in London for treatment, in a land allotment case involving Geo Media Group owner Mir Shakilur Rehman.The accountability court in Lahore indicted Shahbaz, 68, on the charges of using taxpayers’ money to construct a drain in Chiniot (250 km from Lahore) in (2010-2013) which allegedly benefitted a business run by his sons.The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) alleged…

Online DeskIslamabad : On 5 August, a year after Article 370 was abolished in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan issued a new constitutional map of its own, including Jammu and Kashmir.Addressing the media, Imran Khan called it a historic day, adding that the new map reflects the ambition of Pakistani nationals.Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that a new political map will be included in the school curriculum.Earlier, the Pakistani government also released instructions to be followed on 5 August. The press release read on 5 August as Youm-e-Istehsal and Ghasbana Qabza.The Note also notes that the terms of use…

By Our Staff ReporterIslamabad: On Monday, the two-member High Court of Islamabad appointed the three lawyers to hear a petition filed by the Government of Pakistan to appoint a lawyer for JadhavThe Pakistani Supreme Court has named three senior lawyers as Amici curiae in the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, ordering the Pakistani government to give India “another chance” to appoint a death row prisoner’s counsel.Jadhav, the 50-year-old retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April 2017.India approached the International Court of Justice against Pakistan for denial of…

By QASWAR ABBASISLAMABAD, Aug. 3 (Gwadar Pro) – Hundreds of thousands of farmers across Pakistan have appreciated the Chinese government for providing a dozen of agricultural drones to Pakistan to fight the locust.The drones were donated by the Chinese ministry of agriculture to the Ministry of National Food Security at the Pakistani Embassy in Beijing.China will provide as many as 38 more drones to Pakistan in a few months, Pakistani officials told Gwadar Pro.Although Pakistan is yet to deploy these drones to stop desert locusts, a wave of joy has been felt among Pakistani farmers.“It is indeed a piece of…

Online DeskKuwait: Kuwait has prohibited entry of foreign passengers from more than 30 countries, including India and China, a circular from the Director General of Civil Aviation Kuwait stated. According to the circular, State of Kuwait, directed all airlines operating at Kuwait International Airport to comply with the instructions in this regard. “Based on the decision of the Health Authority in State of Kuwait, no foreign passenger coming from the down listed countries will be allowed to enter the State of Kuwait,” the circular read.These include- India, Iran, China, Brazil, Colombia, Armenia, Bangladesh, Philippines, Syria, Spain, Singapore, Bosnia and Herzegovina,…

By our staff reporter Islamabad: Police in Pakistan has registered a case against three persons allegedly tirturing a pair of lions leading to their death.Police in Pakistani capital registered at Kohsar Police Station, under section 429-PPC and section 5 of the Animal Act 1990, in response to a complaint, lodged by a journalist Shakeel Ahmed.According to a camera footage, accused lightened fires in the animals’ enclosure at Islamabad Zoo, to move the lions inside cages; they also poked the lion with sticks to force it out. Sadly, Pair of lions died later, while they were being moved to a lion…