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Daily Times May 21, 2021 PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has extended the closure of public and private sector universities and Colleges in 22 districts till June 07. According to a notification issued here on Friday, public and private sector universities and colleges in District Peshawar, Nowshera, Charsadda, Mardan, Swabi, Dir Upper and Lower, Bajaur, Buner, Malakand, Swat, Shangla, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Torghar, Haripur, Battagram, Orakzai, Kohat, Kurram, Bannu, South Waziristan...

Peshawar, Mardan, Malakand and Hazara divisions have reported bulk of deaths and Covid-19 patients.— Reuters/File PESHAWAR: Coronavirus claimed 27 more lives including an employee of Lady Reading Hospital and infected 642 others in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday as Peshawar, Mardan and Swat continued to record more deaths and new cases. A report of health department said that 10 more people fell prey to the virus in Peshawar, five in Swat, four in Mardan and two each in Charsadda and Dir Upper ...

Health minister Taimur Jhagra meets representatives from the Hayatabad Medical Complex. - Photo courtesy Twitter PESHAWAR: Resenting the non-implementation of the last year’s legislation for the prevention of violence against health workers, the Provincial Doctors Association has warned that the medics will suspend the management of coronavirus patients in hospitals if the government doesn’t act against MPAs Nighat Orakzai and Shafiq Afridi for ransacking the Hayatabad Medical Complex and t...

Health minister Taimur Jhagra meets representatives from the Hayatabad Medical Complex. - Photo courtesy Twitter PESHAWAR: Resenting the non-implementation of the last year’s legislation for the prevention of violence against health workers, the Provincial Doctors Association has warned that the medics will suspend the management of coronavirus patients in hospitals if the government doesn’t act against MPAs Nighat Orakzai and Shafiq Afridi for ransacking the Hayatabad Medical Complex and t...

PESHAWAR/MARDAN: Coronavirus claimed 42 more lives and 787 new cases were detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday as the weeklong lockdown ended in Mardan after slump in infectivity level of virus in the district where positivity for virus declined after imposition of restrictions. Amid three wave of the pandemic, which has so far killed 3,392 persons and infected 1,20,064 others since its onset, Provincial Doctors Association chairman Dr Zubair Zahir in a statement said that elective services...

63rd doctor succumbs to Covid in K-P Govt asks residents to wear masks; imposes Section 144 across the province PHOTO: REUTERS PESHAWAR: Yet another doctor has succumbed to Covid-19 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) bringing the total number of medics killed so far to 63 in the province. Children Specialist Dr Syed Mumtaz Hussain Shah breathed his last at a private hospital in Islamabad where he was admitted after his condition deteriorated rapidly. Due to Covid-19 infection his lungs had been dama...

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday congratulated the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for providing free health coverage to all residents of the province under the Sehat Sahulat Programme. — DawnNewsTV/File Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday congratulated the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for providing free health coverage to all residents of the province under the Sehat Sahulat Programme. In a tweet on Monday morning, the premier said that about 40 million people will receive free healthcare ...

K-P Assembly passes three bills One bill was also introduced during the session KP Assembly in session. PHOTO: AFP PESHAWAR: K-P Assembly on Monday passed three bills including Khyber Pakthunkhwa Amendment of Certain Fiscal Laws Bill, 2021 under which the government has widened the property tax net. The Khyber Pakthunkhwa Trust (Amendment) Bill 2021 was also introduced in the assembly and the Khyber Pakthunkhwa Amendment of Certain Fiscal Laws Bill, 2021, Khyber Pakthunkhwa Control of Narcotic...

Justice Qaiser takes oath as PHC chief justice   Published On Governor Shah Farman administered the oath to him. PESHAWAR (Dunya News) - Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan was sworn in as the chief justice of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) at the Governor’s House on Saturday. Governor Shah Farman administered the oath to him. The chief justice’s post fell vacant on Nov 12 after the incumbent, Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, died of novel coronavirus. Profile of Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan Education F.Sc....

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