Pak has over 1,400 cases, says official
Islamabad, March 28: Pakistan has over 12,000 suspected Covid-19 cases, a top health official said on Saturday as the confirmed infections surged to over 1,400 with the Punjab province emerging as the new epicentre of the deadly disease in the country.
Adviser on health to the government Zafar Mirza was addressing a daily briefing to inform the magnitude of infection and measures taken to combat coronavirus pandemic. “There are currently 12,218 suspected Covid-19 patients in the country, out of which 1,408 have tested positive so far,” the officer said.
Lahore, March 28: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is set to undergo a heart procedure next week in London, has been summoned by Pakistan’s anti-graft body to appear before it on March 31 for allegedly misusing his power in a land case when he was chief minister of Punjab province in 1986. Sharif, 70, has been in London since November last year for his treatment. The higher court had allowed him to travel abroad for four months but the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government later did not allow extension to his stay and declared him an ‘absconder’.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has sent a questionnaire to the PML-N supreme leader in the land case involving Jang Group’s Editorin-Chief Mir Shakilur Rehman and summoned him to the bureau's office on Tuesday to record his statement. Sharif's party,the PMLN, says the former premier is not well as he is undergoing treatment in London. — PTI