Day: July 29, 2021

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection, Dr. Sania Nishtar Wednesday said that the efforts were underway to expand the scope and scale of Ehsaas Tahaffuz, Pakistan’s first shock-oriented safety net this year. The programme is fully functional in Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi and will be expanded this year […]

ISLAMABAD: Researchers have found that strokes were a common complication experienced by hospitalised adults with severe Covid-19, with higher rates than expected amongst younger people. The study, led by a team at the University of Southampton in the UK, showed that risk factors such as diabetes and high blood pressure, contributed to the risk of […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) ZULFIQUAR returns to operational deployment after successful visit of Saint Petersburg Russia participated in 325th Russian Navy Day Parade. During the ship stay at Saint Petersburg, Mission Commander and Commanding Officer PNS ZULFIQUAR called on Commander Leningrad Naval Base Captain Saloshin Andrev and Deputy Governor External Relations Evgeny D Grigoriev […]

ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has appointed Imran Qadeer, a BS-19 officer of Inland Revenue Services as Additional Director, Directorate of Training and Research (IR), Karachi. According to FBR notification issued here Wednesday, he has relinquished the charge of the post Additional Director (IR), Corporate Tax Office, Karachi. He assumed the charge of the […]

ISLAMABAD: National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has introduced multiple steps for registration of Persons with Disabilities (PWDS) and ensured various facilities at its all centres with a purpose to encourage them for enrolment. According to the official source, NADRA has specified mobile registration vans to process PWDs at their doorsteps while separate as well […]

ISLAMABAD: Inter Provincial Education Ministers Conference (IPEMC) Wednesday decided to reopening of educational institutions across the country from August 02, under strict COVID-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs). The meeting chaired by Acting Secretary Federal Education and Professional Training Asif Haider, was also attended by the provincial education secretaries through video link. It was unanimously decided […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Belarus on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over their growing bilateral cooperation and agreed to maintain the momentum in all fields of mutual interest. The views were agreed upon during the meeting of Pakistan’s Additional Secretary (Europe), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Muhammad Tariq with Foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei, in Minsk. Additional […]

ISLAMABAD: July 28, 2021 marks the 11th anniversary of the victims of Airblue Flight ED 202 that had crashed in the Margalla Hills on this day in 2010, killing all the 152 persons on board, including six crew members. So far this has been the worst air crash in the aviation history of Pakistan. As […]