The number of active cases continued to increase and the tally reached 64,373 on Wednesday. Reuters/File
ISLAMABAD: While around 20 per cent decline was observed in the number of Covid-19 cases, over 100 deaths were reported for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, taking the overall tally to 15,000 mortalities.
Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari, daughter of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and ex-president Asif Ali Zardari, has been infected with coronavirus.
According to data released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 4,004 cases and 102 deaths were reported in a single day. Out of the 102 deaths, 95 passed away in hospitals. As many as 4,529 patients were admitted to hospitals across the country, of which 443 were on ventilators.
NA Speaker Asad Qaiser contacts Senator Yousuf Raza Gillani for talks on electoral reforms geo.tv - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from geo.tv Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has requested the NA speaker to form an inter-party panel to end corrupt practices in elections. APP/File
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday requested National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser to immediately constitute an inter-party parliamentary committee in order to discuss electoral reforms and end the perennial issue of corrupt practices in polls.
In a letter to the speaker, the premier said this month s Senate elections had once again highlighted the scourge of vote purchasing in the prevailing non-transparent manner of conducting elections .
On Monday, the government had shown its intention to form a bipartisan parliamentary committee under Speaker Qaiser to bring constitutional and electoral reforms in the country. The consensus on the formation of the body was reached between the speaker and Adviser to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan during a meeting.
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• House condemns women’s killing in North Waziristan
• Fawad raises JUI-F MNA’s reported marriage to underage girl
ISLAMABAD: As the National Assembly on Friday condemned the killing of four women vocational trainers in North Waziristan on February 22, the opposition parties asked the government to take immediate notice of the regrouping of militants in the tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan.
Speaking on points of order, opposition members warned the government that if timely action was not taken, the operations conducted by the armed forces in recent years to purge all those areas of terrorism might become futile.