Ahmed Shameel

  ISLAMABAD: As many as 467 more people tested positive for the deadly coronavirus across the country during the last 24 hours, lifting the national tally of infections to 315,727. Six corona patients, who were under treatment in hospitals, died during this period, according to the latest update shared by the National command and Operation Centre (NCOC). Thus far, 6,523 Covid-19 related fatalities have been reported. Read More:  Most Sindh schools found flouting social distancing, mask rules: report Some 28, 280 tests were conducted across the country during the previous 24 hours. Around 300,616 people have recovered from the disease so far across Pakistan making it a significant count with more than 90 per cent recovery ratio of the affected patients. Read More:  Can chewing paan prevent Covid-19 infection? Since the pandemic outbreak began, 315,727 infections have been detected in the country, including 138,593 in Sindh, 100,033 in Punjab, 38,105 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ...

  Photo: File Here are some of the stories we will be following today (Tuesday): Prime Minister Imran Khan will preside over a meeting of the federal cabinet today. The country’s financial and economic matters will be discussed. An anti-terrorism court will hear bail petitions of PML-N’s Captain (retired) Safdar Awan, Rana Sanaullah and others in the NAB office attack case. PM Khan has expressed his lack of knowledge and disappointment over the  treason case lodged against PML-N Supremo Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz in Lahore . Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry said that such policies were not implemented in the PTI government. The Pakistan Democratic Movement will stage its first anti-government rally in Gujranwala on October 16 . The urs celebrations of Persian mystic and preacher Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh will begin today. Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar is expected to attend.

  ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday appointed eminent economist and former secretary finance  Dr Waqar Masood Khan  as his special assistant on revenue with the status of minister of state. Dr Masood has done PhD in Economics and Masters in Political Economy from Boston University Massachusetts, USA, and Masters in Economics and LLB from Karachi University. The newly-appointed premier's aide also has a wide-ranging experience of working with both the public and private sectors. In the past few months, Dr Waqar Masood assisted the Ministry of Finance in different informal capacities and recently he was made in-charge of a high-powered committee working to place targeted subsidies mechanism for different sectors of the national economy.