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NCOC opposes calls for locking down Karachi Ag APP ISLAMABAD: National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) chief Asad Umar on Thursday voiced his opposition to doctors’ calls for a complete lockdown in Karachi — which has seen its coronavirus positivity ratio surge to 30 per cent – stressing it was “not the solution”. “In the past one year, we have learnt that shutting down had not worked and it won’t work now. So the only way forward is to vaccinate and follow SOPs,” Umar said with regard to the Pakistan Medical Association’s call for a 15-day lockdown in the metropolis af...

Illustration by Radia Durrani “Khatra abhi tala hai, lekin poori tarha se khatam nahin hua [The danger has subsided, but hasn’t fully ended yet],” warned the recorded message Pakistanis would hear when calling their loved ones on the phone. A fourth wave could be around the corner, said Chief of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) Asad Umar, urging people to encourage those over 50 years of age to get vaccinated. But despite the warnings, the increasing threat of the Delta variant, first detected in India, and international travel restrictions on Pakistanis, blatant violati...

UAE issues new guidelines for Pakistan travellers July 16, 2021 DUBAI: The new travel guidelines for travellers wishing to travel to the United Arab Emirates from Pakistan have been amended just hours after they were issued that airlines passengers flying to the UAE may need to show an attested vaccination certificate to enter the Emirates. The UAE authorities later clarified that no plan was in place yet. The embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Islamabad tweeted that it would like to clarify that the attestation of a vaccination certificate of COVID-19 from the embassy is not currently ...

UAE issues new guidelines for Pak travellers July 16, 2021 DUBAI: The new travel guidelines for travellers wishing to travel to the United Arab Emirates from Pakistan have been amended just hours after they were issued that airlines passengers flying to the UAE may need to show an attested vaccination certificate to enter the Emirates. UAE authorities later clarified that no plan was in place yet. The embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Islamabad tweeted that it would like to clarify that the attestation of vaccination certificate of COVID-19 from the embassy is not considered currently ...

Registering aliens Number of foreigners living in Pakistan illegally is not exactly known, but the figure is said to run into millions July 11, 2021 The number of foreign nationals living in Pakistan illegally is not exactly known, but the figure is said to run into millions. Notwithstanding the Afghan refugees — a majority of whom are registered and thus not counted among illegal immigrants — a large number of Bangladeshis and Burmese as well as Arabs, Africans, Chechens, Uzbeks and Tajiks have been living in Pakistan, for decades. According to the defunct National Aliens Registration Au...