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• Registration of citizens over 65 years of age to begin in two weeks• Minister says vaccination likely to start in Islamabad• Pakistan to get another 1.1m pre-booked doses ISLAMABAD: A special Pakistan Air Force (PAF) plane was due to leave Beijing for Islamabad on Monday (today) with around half a million doses of Covid-19 vaccine gifted by China. In another development, the government has decided to start registration of citizens over 65 years in the next two weeks. The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), on the other hand, reported that another 1,599 people had contracted the virus while…

Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early morning raids. The army said it had carried out the detentions in response to “election fraud”, handing power to military chief Min Aung Hlaing and imposing a state of emergency for one year, according to a statement on a military-owned television station. A military spokesman did not answer phone calls seeking further comment. Read More : https://www.dawn.com/news/1604849

Filip Kuznetsov spent an entire night crammed into a police van with 17 other protesters because Moscow’s detention centres were all full. He was among a record 4,002 people arrested across Russia last week, as large crowds took to the streets to demand the release of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Further protests have been called for Sunday, threatening to strain the system even further. “We didn’t sleep all night. One person always had to stand for space, so we took it in turns,” Filip told me by phone on Wednesday from the back of the police van, which he…

SAHIWAL: Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday said the auction of parliamentarians for the Senate election had begun and he knew how much money was being offered to buy their loyalties. “We also know a political leader, who has been collecting money to buy votes,” he said while talking to the media here. Imran said for the last 30 years he had seen the ‘auction’ of parliamentarians to buy their votes for the Senate membership. After the last Senate election, the PTI expelled its 20 members, who were found to have sold their votes for Rs50 million each. Read More :…

I’ve been a bit quiet this week. I haven’t posted any new blog posts mostly because I’ve been waiting for my new paintings to be delivered. But my silence doesn’t mean that I have stopped painting altogether. It just means that instead of posting on social media, I posted the latest originals on my website. And here they are! I call these paintings ‘Cityscape’. In other words, they’re city paintings. You can find the originals of both pieces in my Shop, ready to be shipped to your door or a lovely person of your choice. And just because I’m feeling…

CONVINCED of his invincibility and riding an unchallenged authoritarian streak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have overplayed his hand with India’s livid farmers who staged a huge ‘tractor rally’ in the capital on Tuesday. The largely peaceful protest was planned to coincide with India’s annual Republic Day pageantry, and police had to permit some 100,000 tractors and many more people into the precincts of the protected city. The notoriously pro-Modi TV channels, however, used stray images of scuffles between police and protesters — inevitable in any rally of this size — to project it as a violent invasion of the Indian capital.…

During my tenure as Chairman, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) one major change which was brought in was the abolition of zero rating of sales tax for five export-oriented sectors. This is generally called the SRO 1125 regime. When we make a list of legislations that legalized state sponsored corruption then SRO 1125 will appear at the top of the list of such measures that include the Protection of Economic Reform Act, 1992, the Foreign Currency Accounts (Protection) Ordinance, 2001, the Presumptive Taxation and Section 111(4) of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001. Read More : https://www.brecorder.com/news/40056952

ISLAMABAD: A cabinet body overseeing the implementation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) on Tuesday directed the ministries to remove irritants for fast-paced execution of the projects and gave them a stern warning that if the task was not completed within a week they would face the music. The meeting of the Cabinet Committee on CPEC (CCoCPEC) was convened to review the progress ahead of the Joint Cooperation Committee meeting, but it ended sooner than planned due to pendency of many issues. Read More : https://tribune.com.pk/story/2281519/pick-up-the-pace-of-work-on-cpec-projects-ministries-told

Tens of thousands of farmers who stormed the historic Red Fort on India’s Republic Day were again camped outside the capital on Wednesday after the most volatile day of their two-month standoff left one protester dead and more than 80 police officers injured. The protests demanding the repeal of new agricultural laws have grown into a rebellion that is rattling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Read More : https://www.dawn.com/news/1603907

LAHORE: After the Partition, India has always celebrated its Republic Day on Jan 26, with some foreign head of the state as the chief guest since 1950. In years 1952, 1953 and 1966, the day was celebrated without any foreign special guest. And this year too, the Narendra Modi government is celebrating the Indian Republic Day without any foreign head of the state in 55 years after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to accept the invitation. Read More : https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/780014-is-it-india-s-republic-day-or-black-day