United Nations, April 20, 2020: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief has underscored the need for easing lockdowns against coronavirus under a “phased process” at a virtual meeting of the leading G20 global economies. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director general, reiterated the UN’s appreciation for committing to further strengthen the agency’s mandate in coordinating…
Karachi, April 19, 2020: The government has announced Standards Operating Procedures (SOPs) for workplaces and industry in wake of Coronavirus. In view of the spread of corona virus and resulting disease (Covid-19) and deaths worldwide and also due to increasing number of cases in Pakistan as well as in Sindh the Government of Sindh passed…
Islamabad, April 19, 2020: The strategic preparedness and response plan to fight the COVID-19 has left most of the public policy decision makers in a fix between the availability of resources versus technological solutions available to them. This challenge becomes more significant for countries like Pakistan, when the population and influx points are in greater…
Islamabad, April 19, 2020: Prominent economists, experts and associations had hailed the concessional package, announced by the government, for construction industry through amendments in the Income Tax Ordinance (2001) to provide tax relaxation to the builders and developers in the existing COVID-19 pandemic situation. “In the current COVID-19 pandemic situation, when whole global economy is…
New York, April 19, 2020: The United States is considering the withdrawal of frontline CIA personnel from bases in Afghanistan, as part of an effort to further reduce violence in the war-ravaged country in line with the historic peace deal with the Taliban, according to The New York Times. The newspaper said the deliberations over…