MQM-P leader Mustafa Kamal addresses a press conference in Karachi on Thursday, January 22, 2026. SCREENGRAB ISLAMABAD: Health Minister Mustafa Kamal has warned that Pakistan could face an annual vaccine bill of up to $1.2 billion by 2031 if domestic manufacturing is not established, calling the current reliance on imported vaccines a looming economic burden. […]
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President Asif Ali Zardari hands over the Nishan-e-Pakistan to his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during a special investiture ceremony held at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif looks on. Photo: APP ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Kazakhstan on Wednesday agreed to elevate their bilateral relations to a strategic partnership, marking a major diplomatic milestone during
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UK’s Charge A’affaires, James Kariuki. Photo: file UNITED NATIONS: UN Security Council members on Tuesday condemned “in the strongest terms” the latest deadly terrorist attacks across several locations in Pakistan’s Balochistan province and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. In a press release issued at the UN headquarters in New York, the
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DUBAI: The United States and Iran are to hold talks in Oman on Friday after Tehran requested a change of venue to limit talks to its nuclear program, a regional official said, with a build-up of US forces in the Middle East raising fears of a confrontation. Iran wanted the meeting to take place in
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addresses the Federal Cabinet on February 4, 2026. SCREENGRAB ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, defending the decision to boycott the match against India in the T20 World Cup, on Wednesday said it was taken in solidarity with Bangladesh. Pakistan came close to pulling out of the tournament after Bangladesh pulled out
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COAS and CDF Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir inquires after the health of a security personnel during his visit to the Combined Military Hospital in Quetta. Photo: ISPR RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defense Forces (CDF) Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir has said that no terrorist or their facilitator would be spared,
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. Political leaders including Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Aain Pakistan Chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai, BNP-M Sardar Akhtar Mengal, NP General Secretary Kabir Muhammad, ANP Balochistan President Asghar Khan Achakzai, PTI Balochistan President Dawood Shah Kakar and MWM Allama Vilayat Hussain held a press conference on Thursday in Jafar Quaetta Hussain. PHOTO: EXPRESS LAHORE: A national conference organized by
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. ISLAMABAD: The IHC on Wednesday sent a petition to Superintendent Adiala Prison seeking better prison facilities and meetings between Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chatha. Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir heard the case filed by former federal minister Shireen Mazari, who appeared before the court along with lawyer Kamran Murtaza and other lawyers. During the
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Say the current situation provides an opportunity to revise national preparedness to deal with potential epidemics Colored transmission electron micrograph of a mature extracellular Nipah Virus particle (purple) near the periphery of an infected VERO cell (brown). The image was taken and color enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit:
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Bushra Anjum claims that education minister has not only appointed Tayyaba as interim VC but also elevated her to professor Senator Bushra Anjum. Photo: Screengrab Senator Bushra Anjum Butt on Wednesday questioned the tenure of the Vice Chancellor of the Pakistan Institute of Fashion Design (PIFD) and the release of more than Rs2 billion in
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