Vol. 74 Nbr. 111, April 2020

Index

• 'Sindh College Lectures' channel launched on YouTube.
• 20 arrested for running shops with shutters down.
• 37 transporters returning from Afghanistan test positive for virus.
• 5,336 Tableeghi activists allowed to return home.
• 65 held in Mansehra over lockdown violations.
• 70 preachers among 73 new Covid-19 cases in Lodhran.
• 80-bed field hospital set up for Covid-19 patients in Attock.
• A divided region.
• AJK leader urges world to not forget Kashmir during crisis.
• All exemptions for pillion riding withdrawn.
• Another attempt to keep Mian Iftikhar from interacting with people.
• Balochistan to give interest-free loans.
• Banks: senior citizens.
• Bear kills yaks, sheep in Chitral village.
• Cases of local transmission of Covid-19 emerging, though slowly.
• Central bank's role in combating recession.
• Centre calls for 'smart lockdown'.
• Centre, Sindh govt not using KMC to combat Covid-19, complains mayor.
• CM for direct aid supply to the needy in absence of Ramazan bazaars.
• CM for transparency in transfer of teachers.
• Corona suspicion: Abrupt closure of TB clinic deprives 500 patients of free medicines.
• Covid poses threat to normal holding of NA budget session.
• Covid-19 claims 10 lives in single day in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
• Covidonomics for Pakistan.
• Dawood hints at scheme for small businesses.
• Development budget likely to be further cut.
• DFID, FAO to provide APS1m more to fight locust upsurge.
• Dhoke Paracha, Kalyam Awan, Thathi hotspots in Pindi district.
• District admin retrieves govt land 'occupied' by private company.
• Downpour hits Dadu.
• Easter Sunday.
• Edibles distributed among railway workers.
• Exam registration.
• Favouritism, political infighting mar Covid-19 relief operations in Sindh.
• Fazal Mahmood - first of the great Pakistan bowlers.
• Finding luck in the pandemic.
• Five suspects arrested.
• Four 'AQIS militants' held in Karachi, weapons seized.
• Four children drown in two incidents.
• Four family members killed over 'monetary dispute'.
• Govt trying to save people from unemployment: Suri.
• Govt utilising all resources to tackle virus: minister.
• Heavy rain damages crops in Karak, Dera.
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• Hundreds of cops get notices for benefiting from BISP.
• Is Covid-19 overshadowing locust threat to food security?
• Is Mahira Khan a woman in love ?
• Kamal questions Sindh govt's claim about distribution of rations.
• Kartarpur gurdwara domes repaired.
• Key agencies will team up to curb smuggling: minister.
• Lab sealed.
• Landi Kotal tribesmen ignore social distancing at weddings, funerals.
• LHC seeks response from Punjab govt over dismissal of factory workers during lockdown.
• Lux Style Awards 2020 are obviously not happening anymore.
• Lyari emerges as new coronavirus hotspot after 67 test positive.
• Man arrested for sexual assault.
• Man booked for BISP fraud against 6 women.
• Marquee converted into field hospital in Gujranwala.
• Mental health and Covid-19.
• Minor maid tortured by employers.
• NCOC plan advocates social distancing during holy month.
• Nimra Khan ties the knot in a small nikkah ceremony at home.
• No transparency in govt measures to combat virus, says CJP Gulzar Ahmed.
• OGDCL's exploration rig in Fatehjang quarantined.
• Opp leaders point out problems in Ehsaas programme.
• Panic over Covid-19 deaths in Mingora family.
• Parents claim Peira notification on reducing school fees not being enforced.
• PCB on 'interim reconciliation process' to clear PSL-V dues.
• PM deserves kudos.
• PM likens Modi govt to Nazis in Germany.
• PML-N fumes as NAB again summons Shahbaz in two cases.
• Post-crisis global realities.
• PPP criticises package for construction industry.
• PPP demands arrest of Rashid, Qureshi for flouting law.
• Punjab Notes: Sages: experience of dying before one's death.
• Rain-hit people get relief items in Bajaur.
• Rains delay wheat harvest in Swabi.
• Ramazan rations distributed among needy.
• Ration distribution.
• RCCI demands zero markup loans for businesses.
• Rethinking agriculture.
• SBP acts swiftly for a change.
• SHC upholds conviction.
• Sindh: industrial shutdown.
• Soldier martyred in North Waziristan attack.
• Some markets partially reopen as lockdown relaxed on traders' demand.
• Sugar export.
• Sustenance in the midst of lockdown.
• Tackling the crisis.
• The complexity of grief and dealing with the death of a loved one during Covid-19 lockdowns.
• The eternal outsiders.
• These Pakistani family dramas deserve to be reaired during lockdown.
• This week 50 years ago: Journalists' strike and American sculptures.
• Three Pims employees among capital's seven latest Covid-19 patients.
• Traffic warden, wife test positive.
• Tribal elder remains unhurt in Bajaur blast.
• Trump's Ramazan remarks stir fear among American Muslims.
• Two more polio cases detected, taking year's tally to 41.
• Ulema meet PM Imran on coronavirus measures, 'endorse govt's strategy'.
• Unsung heroes.