Month: June 2021

Gilgit:Additional Secretary Ministry of Climate Change, Joudat Ayaz, on Saturday visited Shimshal, a teshil of Hunza district in the Gilgit-Balistan and distributed Hazard Watch Group Equipment (HWGE), under GLOF-II Project for effective resilience building. HWGE acquired under the project “Scaling-Up of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods Risk Reduction in Northern Pakistan (GLOF-II)” was distributed to Community […]

ISLAMABAD:Satrang Gallery had organized “Borrowed Feathers,” an exhibition of Imran Hunzai and Nizakat Ali Depar, here on Saturday. Curator Satrang Zahra Khan told reporter that the exhibition had been viewed for a month. She said COVID-19 SoPs wearing mask and social distancing was strictly observed at the venue. At a time when the preservation of […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) and Brazilian Academy of Letters (BAL) have agreed to sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for strengthening literary relations between the two nations. Dr. Marco Luccheci, President Brazilian Academy of Letters has showed interest to sign MoU with the PAL at an online dialogue entitled “literary cooperation between Pakistan and […]

ISLAMABAD:Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has termed the decision of Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s decision to hold elections in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir first and grant statehood later as ‘bizarre’ Taking to twitter, he said the Congress and other parties in Jammu and Kashmir want statehood first and […]

ISLAMABAD:Indus River System Authority (IRSA) on Saturday released 276,400 cusecs water from various rim stations with inflow of 237,400 cusecs. According to the data released by IRSA, water level in the Indus River at Tarbela Dam was 1438.81 feet, which was 54.81 feet higher than its dead level 1386 feet. Water inflow and outflow in […]

ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan earned victories in the matches of the Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC) Blind Cricket Twenty20 Super League being played at the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Cricket Stadium, Abbottabad on Saturday. In the first match, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa beat Punjab by seven wickets. In the morning KP won the toss and asked […]

ISLAMABAD:Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi Saturday said that out of 27 technical items of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) action plan, Pakistan had already achieved 26 points whereas substantial progress was made on the remaining target. In a press statement, the foreign minister expressed his wonder over the FATF decision of still keeping Pakistan […]

ISLAMABAD:Minister for Finance Shaukat Tarin Saturday said after implementing short term and medium term structural reforms in the country’s economy, Pakistan was now moving towards sustainable and inclusive growth. We are on road to just have a comprehensive economic road map which we will follow and Prime Minister Imran Khan is also committed to fully […]