Tag: Travel Ban
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Mazay Khatam; No more 1st class for PM and five-star hotels for ministers
In a bid to curb expenses, the federal government has rolled out a stringent travel advisory affecting top-tier officials, including the president, prime minister, chief justice, services chiefs, and bureaucrats. Effective immediately, the advisory mandates specific classes for air travel, categorizing officials based on their positions. Cabinet Division said the president and the CJP will…
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UN chief condemns travel restrictions, calls it ‘travel apartheid’
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that a travel ban imposed because of the Covid pandemic that cuts off any one country or region as “not only deeply unfair and punitive – they are ineffective.”, report Geo News. Guterres said that tests should continually be performed on travelers to reduce the threat…
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Pakistan’s bowling consultant Philander to leave amid Omicron fears
Pakistan cricket team’s bowling consultant, South African Vernon Philander is set to leave the Pakistan team midway through the on-going Test against Bangladesh after suspension of flight operations in South Africa amid the spread of new coronavirus variant, Omicron. According to reports, Philander will leave Bangladesh for South Africa between Monday and Tuesday night. It…
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Risk of New Variant Omicron, Pakistan imposes travel ban
The National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) has imposed a complete travel ban from red zone African countries and Hong Kong on Saturday evening after the emergence of a new Covid variant, Omicron. NCOC tweeted the notification in which six South African countries and Hong Kong are included in category C due to Omicron. A…
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Deadly Omicron-new variant of Covid, raises alarm
The new variant of the coronavirus was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) from South Africa on November 24. It was declared a new variant “of concern” and named it Omicron, reports the BBC. On Friday, this variant was identified as the B.1.1.529 infection which was collected from a specimen on November 9. The…
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Pakistan on UK Red List because of Nawaz Sharif, says PTI’s Ali Nawaz Awan
Speaking to anchorperson Gharidah Farooqi on ‘G For Gharidah’, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Special Assistant on Capital Development Authority (CDA), Ali Nawaz Awan, said: “Pakistan is on United Kingdom’s (UK) Red List because of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif.” Awan said that despite providing all the data and information required by the UK,…
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Pakistan to remain on UK’s travel Red list
The United Kingdom (UK) has not moved Pakistan from its Red List to Amber List. Pakistan is still on its Red List of the travel ban, the UK announced in its latest travel review on Thursday. As per reports, Pakistan has been kept on the Red List for “failing to meet the requirements on genomic…
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Bangladesh drops ‘except Israel’ from passports
The Bangladeshi passport had a note written on it that said it was acceptable for travel to all countries of the world except Israel. But a few months ago, Bangladesh dropped the words “except Israel” from the new electronic passports. Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen confirmed the country’s support…
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FIA bars Shehbaz from leaving the country
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif was stopped by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) from leaving the country earlier today. According to the FIA, Sharif’s name is on the Person-Not-In-List (PNIL), which means that persons who are not on Exit Control List (ECL) or on black list can be stopped through PNIL. On Friday,…
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‘Blood on your hands’: Michael Slater slams Australian PM
Former cricketer Michael Slater, who is currently part of the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) commentary panel, has slammed his country’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison for not allowing its citizens to return from COVID-19 hit India, calling the travel ban a “disgrace”. Australia has shut its borders and is not allowing any commercial flights from India because of the…