President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay an official visit to Pakistan on February 13th to cement relations between the two countries. The Turkish President will be accompanied by a delegation of Turkish businessmen. He requested that Pakistani businessmen who are interested in B2B with the delegates are requested to contact the Trade and Development Authority of Pakistan.
Nawaz’s treatment has been delayed twice as his daughter, Maryam Nawaz was not allowed to visit him, according to PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif. Shehbaz, who is in London for his brother’s treatment said that the doctors are saying Nawaz’s health is in a delicate position. He says the former prime minister’s daughter, PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz should be allowed to visit her father on humanitarian grounds.
A Chinese national, suspected of having coronavirus, was shifted to an isolation ward of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) from the Islamabad airport. Bing Yang was diagnosed with high temperature during the screening of 122 passengers who landed at Islamabad airport from Beijing. High temperature being one of the major symptoms of coronavirus, the authorities immediately separated Yang from other passengers and shifted him to the Pims hospital.
The body of a driver employed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was found hanging from a tree in Islamabad on Tuesday, police said. The body of the man was found hanging from a tree in a green area next to Ibn-e-Sina road in the capital’s Sector G-9/2, within the jurisdiction of Margalla police station. Police took the body into custody and started an investigation into the death.
After the Chinese foreign ministry had urged the world for help for curing coronavirus, Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has sent a military aircraft loaded with medical supplies as a part of rescue services to China. The second batch of the supplies will land in Wuhan this week as the country continues its fight against the mysterious virus that has already infected over 14,000 people worldwide.
Pakistan received coronavirus testing kits from China and Japan Sunday afternoon, days after the government assured the kits would be here
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he will be inviting Turkey to join the multi-billion dollar CPEC projects. He further added that he hopes to strengthen ties with Turkey. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to visit Islamabad mid-February, which he hopes will build on the brotherly relationship between Islamabad and Ankara as he will be bringing various buisness houses and investors with him.
The Foreign Office has summoned a senior diplomat from the Indian High Commission to lodge its protest over ceasefire violations along the Line of Control. A 45-year-old civilian was severely injured when Indian forces opened fire along the LoC in Kashmir. Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said these Indian acts displayed a complete disregard for international human rights and international norms.
A Chinese national was shifted to a Lahore hospital after he fell ill at the Lahore airport as a precaution against Coronavirus. The Chinese passenger had come to Lahore in a PIA flight from Karachi. He was taken to Lahore’s Services Hospital where he was kept in isolation. According to the medical superintendent of the hospital, the patient had no symptoms of Coronavirus and was later discharged after collection of his blood samples.
Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has filed a bail petition in the Islamabad High Court. He is currently in NAB custody in the LNG contract case. He has asked the court to grant him bail till a verdict is announced in the case. The former premier applied for bail on the orders of Nawaz Sharif, the PML-N founder and three-time former prime minister.