Month: June 2021

BEIJING: An art performance was held in Beijing in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Party and state leaders Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng and Wang Qishan joined about 20, 000 people to watch the performance, titled […]

ISLAMABAD: Kashmir Committee Chairman Shehryar Khan Afridi on Tuesday welcomed the statement of United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres over “grave violations” against children in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The UN chief made this call, the other day in the annual report on Children and Armed Conflict, launched last week by […]

ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Terrorism Court(ATC) on Tuesday sentenced lifetime imprisonment to a culprit of kidnapping for ransom and dacoity case. Shahbaz Ali was found guilty of kidnapping Shehryar Fawad after dacoity, in 2015, for ransom in the area of police station Tarnol. ATC Judge Raja Jawad Abbass pronounced the verdict after recording evidence of the witnesses […]

ISLAMABAD: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) on Tuesday concluded public hearing into monthly fuel cost adjustment (FCA) for May. The hearing was presided over by NEPRA Chairman Tauseef H Farooqi. Member Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Engineer Masood Anwar Khan, Member Sindh Rafique Ahmed Sheikh and Member Balochistan Rehmatullah were also present on the occasion. Central Power […]

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Tuesday passed the Finance Bill, 2021-22 after lengthy debate of five hour ten minute over the budget. Budget session was quite exhaustive as 244 members from the treasury and the opposition benches participated in general discussion on the Budget and consumed sixty-nine hours five minutes. Additional sixteen hours five minutes […]

ISLAMABAD: Canvas footwear exports during eleven months of FY 2020-21 grew by 40.29 per cent as compared to the exports of the corresponding period of last year. During the period from July-May 20-21, Canvas footwear worth US $ 491 thousand exported as compared to worth US $ 350 thousand of same period of last year. […]

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz Tuesday felicitated the whole nation on passage of the federal budget 2021-22 from the Parliament. Talking to a private news channel, he said the opposition was well aware that the government have given a solid, balanced and people-friendly budget. The minister said the government allocated huge amount […]

ISLAMABAD: Higher Education Commission (HEC) and The Huawei Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd. Pakistan have planned to organize a six day long online training for 30 outstanding Pakistani students in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), scheduled to be held from August 9-16. According to an official of HEC, the applications have been invited from […]