ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Thursday approved two years landing rights permission to education category channels on zero tariff to encourage the arrival of reputed international channels in Pakistan. The 164th meeting presided over by PEMRA Chairman Muhammad Saleem Baig accorded approval of renewal of licenses to a number of FM radios. […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: World Bank’s Vice President for South Asia Hartwig Schafer in a meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday termed Ehsaas a unique socio-welfare programme and expressed confidence that the Kamyab Pakistan project would also prove to be exemplary. Hartwig Schaffer apprised the prime minister that the World Bank was appreciative of Pakistan’s socio-welfare […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday warned India to end its continuous subjugation of Kashmiris in Occupied Kashmir as it could no longer suppress their voice. “The voice of Kashmiris for their right to self-determination is getting stronger against India’s atrocities and the day is not far, when the Indian government will have to […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Indus River experiencing low-level flood at Chashma, Tunsa and Guddu, Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) said here on Thursday. A spokesman of the authority mentioning a report on the latest water situation in reservoirs and rivers in the country said the water level in Tarbela Dam stood at 1532 feet while Tarbela Dam […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Communication Dr Shahbaz Gill on Thursday said that today 731 days had been completed of Indian barbarism and revoking of article 370 in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Neither Kashmiris nor Kashmiri peoples’ ambassador have forgotten this Indian illegal act and not even the […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON: National Security Adviser Dr Moeed Yusuf has said that Pakistan would not accept the ‘forceful takeover’ in Afghanistan and instead support the political solution to the conflict. “We will not accept a forceful takeover, ” he told the reporters at a press conference held at the Pakistan embassy in Washington DC late Wednesday, wrapping […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Power on Thursday informed that Nandipur Power Plant was generating 500 MW electricity with 49 percent efficiency. The committee which met with Saifullah Abro in the chair sought compliance report on the previous committee meetings, briefing on aims, objectives of establishment of GENCO Holding Company Limited, GENCO-I, GENCO-II and […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: People of Kashmir are waiting for the world to respond to their persecution, two years after the fascist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) led government unlawfully annexed Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Like October 27, when Indian forces landed on Kashmir back in 1947 to occupy the state, people in IIOJK and Kashmiris […]
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