ISLAMABAD: Executive Director United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) David M Beasley on Thursday called on Prime Minister Imran Khan and appreciated Pakistan’s role in facilitating the work of his organization in providing food assistance to the people in Afghanistan. The Rome-based WFP official also discussed the ways for the continued provision of humanitarian assistance […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s goods and services trade with United State of America (USA) witnessed surplus of 63.58 percent during first month of current financial year (2021-22) as compared to the corresponding period of last year. The overall exports to USA were recorded at $ 503.118 million during July (2021-22) against exports of $337.228 million during July […]
Read MoreBEIJING: The people to people exchanges and communications should be strengthen among the youth of Pakistan and China to further cement friendship between the two countries, said a Pakistani student studying in Xi’an, China. “I think this (summer camp) is one of the best ways to explore China, its universities, languages and customs. Obviously, I’ll […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Federal Secretary, Board of Investment (BOI), Fareena Mazhar on Thursday said the World Bank’s coming, Ease of Doing Business (EODB) report 2021-22 to be issued in December this year, which is expected to further improve Pakistan’s ranking below 100. “Improving Pakistan’s ‘Ease of Doing Business Ranking’ will boost foreign investment in the country” she […]
Read MoreBEIJING: Pakistan Army will participate in the “Common Destiny 2021” International Peacekeeping Exercise to be held at PLA 90Queshan Tactical Training Base in China from September 6-15, Spokesperson of China’s Ministry of National Defense, Senior Col Tan Kefei said on Thursday. China, Pakistan, Mongolia, Thailand and other countries will send more than 1, 000 troops […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: The exchange rate of Pakistan rupee recovered 47 paisas against the US dollar in interbank trading on Thursday and closed at Rs165.80 as compared to the previous day’s closing of Rs166.27. According to Forex Association of Pakistan (FAP), the buying and selling rates of dollar in the open market were recorded at Rs165.8 and […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Pakistan during the two decades long US war on terror in Afghanistan faced huge economic losses where the country only received 31.3 percent of the total promised funding under US Agency for International Development (USAID) during the period of 2001-2021. Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) in its research based infographic rendered a stark contrast […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib on Thursday asked the multi-party alliance—Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) to review its own performance instead of criticizing the government for its three-year in power. During the last couple of years, the parties to the alliance did nothing, but only resorted to infighting and washing each […]
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