Month: June 2021

ISLAMABAD: More than five million people became millionaires across the world in 2020 despite economic damage from the Covid-19 pandemic. While many poor people became poorer, the number of millionaires increased by 5.2 million to 56.1 million globally, Credit Suisse research found. In 2020, more than 1% of adults worldwide were millionaires for the first […]

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Capital Development Authority Ali Nawaz Awan on Thursday said that his government’s top priority is to modernize the federal capital to bring it at par with the capitals of developed countries. He said that the government has to uplift rural areas of Islamabad for which all available […]

ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Thursday witnessed introduction of three government bills which were referred to the relevant committees for further consideration. The bills introduced in the Upper House of the parliament were the International Court of Justice (review and re-consideration) Bill, 2021; the Muslim Family Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 (Amendment of Section 4); and the […]

ISLAMABAD: Chairman, Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) Dr Yousuf Khushk, visited an under construction literary building project of the provincial office Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar. Renowned writers of Pashto language and literature Dr Abasin Yousafzai, Engineer Dr Zakaullah, Khanum Gulzeb, Aziz Ijaz, Riffatullah Rifat were also present on the occasion, said a press release issued here. […]

ISLAMABAD: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has condemned the frequent use of draconian laws by the Indian fascist rulers in the nook and corner of the territory. The Public Relations Secretary of APHC, Bashir Ahmed Andrabi in a statement issued in Srinagar said during the past three […]

ISLAMABAD: Quality Enhancement Cell, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) Islamabad organized a seminar to highlight various parameters of self-assessment, evaluation of different degree programs, and writing report of institutional assessment. The objective of the seminar was to understand the overall performance of the academic institutes. The seminar convened by Chairman QAU self-assessment committee Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ishtiaq […]

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar Thursday called for taking anti-COVID vaccine acceptability decision by a single global institution like World Health Organization (WHO). “Each country, deciding which vaccine is acceptable for travel to that country, is creating chaos, ” he said in a tweet. Asad Umar who is also head […]

ISLAMABAD: In a step toward expanding U.S-Pakistan educational cooperation, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support 125 Pakistanis to pursue PhD studies in the United States, 25 per year for five years. The MoU extends an agreement that funded 125 […]