After two more schools sealed, closed institutes rises to 21 in capital

With two more educational institutions were sealed on Monday following emergence of Covid-19 cases, the tally of school buildings sealed since September 14 has reached 21.

Officials of the capital administration said a private school at Tarlai and a government school at F-6/2 were sealed after two or more confirmed cases of the virus were detected there. The buildings have been vacated and sealed to avid the spread of the virus among staff and students.

The administrations of the schools were asked to advise the staff and students to quarantine for 14 days.

The confirmed cases are being investigated by teams from the District Health Office to trace their contacts.

Since September 14, over 11,000 tests have been conducted at government institutes and about 10,500 at private institutes, said the officials, adding 28 positive cases were detected at government and 29 at private institutes.

Since Sept 14, over 11,000 tests have been conducted at government and about 10,500 at private institutes

So far, 25 buildings have been sealed in the capital upon detection of Covid-19 positive cases, including 21 educational institutes.

On Monday, there was a decrease in the number of confirmed cases compared to Sunday.

The officials said 35 people tested positive on Monday compared to 86 on Sunday.

Besides, another patient died of the virus, taking the toll to 189.

Five cases each were reported from Tarlai, G-6, two each from B-17, F-10, Chak Shahzad, Bhara Kahu and one each from G-5, Jinnah Garden, G-15, I-10, G-9, G-7, G-11, G-10, F-8, F-7, F-6.

Six cases were reported from other areas, they added.

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8 more dies, 531 test COVID Positive in 24 hours

8 more people died from coronavirus in the country over the past 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 6,588.

According to NCOC, some 30,022 samples were tested, out of which 531 turned out to be positive, lifting the national tally of infections to 319,848.

Around 304,609 people have recovered from the disease so far across Pakistan with addition of 424 recoveries recorded over the previous 24 hours. There are a total of 8,651 active cases of Covid-19 in the country. Of the total patients under treatment,516 are said to be in critical condition.

A total of 39,014,818 tests have been conducted so far.

Since the pandemic outbreak, a total of 319,848 cases have been detected so far, including 140,534 in Sindh, 100,892 in Punjab, 38,367 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15,541 in Balochistan, 17,428 in Islamabad, 3955 in Gilgit Baltistan, and 3131 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

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8 more dies, 531 test COVID Positive in 24 hours

8 more people died from coronavirus in the country over the past 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 6,588.

According to NCOC, some 30,022 samples were tested, out of which 531 turned out to be positive, lifting the national tally of infections to 319,848.

Around 304,609 people have recovered from the disease so far across Pakistan with addition of 424 recoveries recorded over the previous 24 hours. There are a total of 8,651 active cases of Covid-19 in the country. Of the total patients under treatment,516 are said to be in critical condition.

A total of 39,014,818 tests have been conducted so far.

Since the pandemic outbreak, a total of 319,848 cases have been detected so far, including 140,534 in Sindh, 100,892 in Punjab, 38,367 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15,541 in Balochistan, 17,428 in Islamabad, 3955 in Gilgit Baltistan, and 3131 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

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Tiger Force has no legal sanction to act on behalf of the state: Rabbani brust in anger

Lashing out at Prime Minister Imran Khan over his announcement to use controversial one million-strong Corona Relief Tiger Force (CRTF) of volunteers for checking prices of food items in the country, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) said the Tiger Force had no legal sanction to act on behalf of the state.

PPP Senator Raza Rabbani in a statement issued here on Monday termed the government decision to utilise services of the CRTF volunteers to check prices a joke and declared it another step towards making the country a “fascist state”.

“The state apparatus has been put in cold storage and the Tiger Force has been asked to control the prices. This is a joke..... Tiger Force has no legal sanction to take any action or act on behalf of the state,” said Mr Rabbani, adding that the federal government must realise that Pakistan was not a fascist state where party functionaries and volunteers could act for and on behalf of the state.

Mr Rabbani said that prices of vegetables and pulses had increased to such an extent that the common man could not afford more than a meal a day today and the federal government had failed to take any step to control mafias and cartels as they were linked to their crony capitalists.
The reaction from the PPP came a day after the prime minister tasked the CRTF with checking prices of food items and posting them on their portal, saying he would discuss the future mechanism at a convention to be held in Islamabad next week.

The CRTF was constituted by the government to ensure implementation of standard operating procedures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

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Tiger Force has no legal sanction to act on behalf of the state: Rabbani brust in anger

Lashing out at Prime Minister Imran Khan over his announcement to use controversial one million-strong Corona Relief Tiger Force (CRTF) of volunteers for checking prices of food items in the country, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) said the Tiger Force had no legal sanction to act on behalf of the state.

PPP Senator Raza Rabbani in a statement issued here on Monday termed the government decision to utilise services of the CRTF volunteers to check prices a joke and declared it another step towards making the country a “fascist state”.

“The state apparatus has been put in cold storage and the Tiger Force has been asked to control the prices. This is a joke..... Tiger Force has no legal sanction to take any action or act on behalf of the state,” said Mr Rabbani, adding that the federal government must realise that Pakistan was not a fascist state where party functionaries and volunteers could act for and on behalf of the state.

Mr Rabbani said that prices of vegetables and pulses had increased to such an extent that the common man could not afford more than a meal a day today and the federal government had failed to take any step to control mafias and cartels as they were linked to their crony capitalists.
The reaction from the PPP came a day after the prime minister tasked the CRTF with checking prices of food items and posting them on their portal, saying he would discuss the future mechanism at a convention to be held in Islamabad next week.

The CRTF was constituted by the government to ensure implementation of standard operating procedures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

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Artificial inflation will not be tolerated: CM Buzdar

Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar here on Monday has summoned a meeting of the Price Control Committee to review the situation of inflation in the province.

Concerned authorities will brief the CM about the steps being taken by them to control over increasing inflation.

Usman Buzdar in his statement said that artificial inflation cannot be tolerated at any cost. “Will utilise every possible way to provide relief to the masses.”

He directed the concerned authorities for strict monitoring of prices of the daily use items in the market.

Earlier, Prime Minister Imran Khan had directed the volunteers of the Tiger Force to regularly check prices of basic commodities like Flour, Sugar, Ghee and lentils in their localities.

In a tweet, he asked the volunteers to post the prices on Tiger Force Portal.

The Prime Minister said he will meet with the Tiger Force volunteers on Saturday next at Convention Center in Islamabad.

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PML-N issues tickets to its candidates for Gilgit-Baltistan election

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has issued party tickets to 18 candidates for the Nov 16 elections in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Talking to media here on Sunday, PML-N secretary general Ahsan Iqbal announced the names of the candidates.

He said that former chief minister Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman would be the candidate from GB Constituency No 2 (CN-2).

He said that the former chief minister had provided exemplary leadership to GB in the last five years and did record development work.

Mr Iqbal said that Zulfiqar Ali will run for CN-3, Engineer Arif Hussain (CN-4), Sajjad Hussain (CN-5), Rehan Shah (CN-6), Haji Akbar (CN-7), Advocate Ghulam Hussain (CN-10), Engineer Shabbir Hussain (CN-11), Mohammad Tahir (CN-12), Rana Farman Ali (CN-13), Abdul Wahid Wajid (CN-15), Engineer Mohammad Anwar (CN-16), Mr Alam (CN-17), Atif Salman (CN-19), Raza-ul-Haq (CN-21), Ghulam Hussain (CN-23) and Engineer Manzoor Hussain (CN-24).

Constituency No 18 and CN-22 have been left open.

The PML-N secretary general said that party tickets for other constituencies would be issued later.

Ahsan Iqbal says his party is striving hard to give GB people their right to representation

He said that the people of GB had made many sacrifices for Pakistan. “There is hardly a village in GB without a martyr’s grave. GB is of great importance to Pakis­tan. It is the gateway to China and Pakistan.”

Mr Iqbal said that GB had a key role to play in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project. He said that the PML-N was working hard to give the people of GB their right to representation, and the people could get this right only through clean and fair elections.

He said that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government had harmed the country’s stance on Kashmir and now it was playing with the future of GB.

He said that Nawaz Sharif’s government had doubled the development budget of GB.

It may be mentioned that GB Chief Election Commissioner Raja Shahbaz Khan said on Saturday that there was no justification for the hue and cry being raised by some political leaders about “expected rigging” in the GB polls.

He suggested that leaders from outside GB should avoid going there to ensure peaceful elections.

The PML-N had also warned the federal government against making any efforts to rig the GB polls.

“The interest of Pakistan lies in free, fair and transparent elections in GB. Pakistan cannot afford to have any political controversy in GB which has already become a flashpoint in the region and many countries are eyeing it to get benefit,” said PML-N secretary general Iqbal at a press conference a couple of weeks ago.

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