Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more whom we do not. It has crashed economies and broken health-care systems, filled hospitals and emptied public spaces. It has …

Hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this month, sources have told Reuters, amid what a senior agency official said was a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks. WHO Chief Information Security Officer Flavio Aggio said the identity of the hackers was unclear and the effort …

KARACHI: Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) on Wednesday launched a free of charge telemedicine project consisting of 42 volunteer medical consultants. In order to provide health and medical consultation to people at their homes, several General Practitioners (GPs) have also been hired by the association to provide telemedicine consultation to …

WASHINGTON: There is a strong chance the new coronavirus could return in seasonal cycles, a senior US scientist said Wednesday, underscoring the urgent need to find a vaccine and effective treatments. Anthony Fauci, who leads research into infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told a briefing the virus …

Written by: Sabeen Sheikh Abid Women empowerment is the process by which women gain power and control over their own lives and acquire the ability to make strategic choices. Women empowerment is the complex hard process of ‘Empowering women’. Empowerment can be defined in many ways. However, when talking about …

Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan on Wednesday instructed to order the privatization process of the country’s numerous government and state organizations. The Prime Minister, who chaired a high-level meeting in Islamabad, directed the authorities concerned to strengthen cooperation between ministries in order to make it easier to privatize effectively. …

US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Kabul on Wednesday for talks with Afghan leaders to save the fragile peace agreement as US air strikes on Taliban positions, Taliban attacks on Afghan forces and President Ashraf Ghani’s refusal to release Taliban prisoners raised concerns about the fate of the deal. …

WATFORD, UK: The leaders of Britain, Canada, France, and the Netherlands have been caught on camera at a Buckingham Palace reception mocking US President Donald Trump’s lengthy media appearances ahead of Wednesday’s Nato summit. The footage, shot by the British host’s camera pool on Tuesday evening and spotted and subtitled …

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Law has sent to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat the summary for appointment of the new chief justice of Pakistan, reported the Geo news channel on Friday. The report said that Justice Gulzar Ahmed, Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, has been named the new …

LAHORE: Former premier Nawaz Sharif, accompanied by his brother Shehbaz Sharif, reached London on Tuesday to continue with his medical treatment. “Former PM #NawazSharif onboard Qatar Airways Air Ambulance A7-MED has landed safely at Heathrow, London-UK,” his personal physician Dr. Adnan Khan, who also traveled along with the former premier, …