RAWALPINDI: The common citizens have started a ‘chicken boycott campaign’ through the social media and appealed to all people to boycott chicken from June 1, 2021 to June 15, 2021 for 15.
RAWALPINDI: The common citizens have started a ‘chicken boycott campaign’ through the social media and appealed to all people to boycott chicken from June 1, 2021 to June 15, 2021 for 15.
Traders pledge to operate until ‘Chand Raat’ countrywide
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May 8, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The All Pakistan Traders Association (APTA) Friday announced that it would continue to carry out all commercial activities countrywide except Sindh until chand raat.
According to the APTA President Ajmal Baloch, all markets and businesses will operate across the country, including Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir. We should be allowed to operate businesses 24 hours as the Saudi government did, said Baloch, adding if the government did not have the means to provide relief to the business community, then it should not tell them to shut down their businesses.
Two days ago, the Punjab government had announced that a full lockdown would be imposed across the province throughout the Eid holidays (May 8 to May 16) to curb the rising number of coronavirus infections.
Traders vow to operate until chand raat countrywide
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ISLAMABAD: The All Pakistan Traders Association (APTA) Friday announced that it would continue to carry out all commercial activities countrywide except Sindh until chand raat.
According to the APTA President Ajmal Baloch, all markets and businesses will operate across the country, including Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir. We should be allowed to operate businesses 24 hours as the Saudi government did, said Baloch, adding if the government did not have the means to provide relief to the business community, then it should not tell them to shut down their businesses.
Atleast 120 more die from coronavirus in Pakistan
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A woman shops at a market, wearing a mask. AFP
Pakistan reported 120 more deaths from coronavirus, taking the national death toll to 18,797 on Saturday, according to the figures provided by the National Command and Operation Centre(NCOC).
About 4,109 more people contracted the infection, increasing the total caseload to 854,240 nationwide.
The daily data issued by NCOC showed that Pakistan carried out 48,103 COVID-19 tests, out of which more than 4,000 returned positive.
Punjab currently leads the provinces and federating units in most cases with 316,334, Sindh is second with 290,756 cases, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has reported 123,150 cases, Islamabad 77,684 cases, Balochistan 23,186 cases, Azad Jammu and Kashmir 17,763 cases, and Gilgit Baltistan 5367 cases.