ISLAMABAD: National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage in collaboration with foreign and Pakistani artists has started receiving entries for recently launched art competition titled “Compassionate Women: Kindness in Action” that will also include compassionate men who have impacted women positively. According to the announcement issued here, all were welcome to enter, with all forms […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: A 10-day “Artisans-at-work in truck art” exhibition would be starting from September 17 till 26 aiming to promote folk crafts arts to create awareness among the masses about traditional skills and provide a platform to artisans to earn livelihood for them and their families. Talking to reporter, Executive Director National Institute of Folk and […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (COiOED) has disposed of 5, 853 cases of forced disappearances by August end from out of some 8, 100 such cases received from March 2011 to July 2021 from various areas of the country, said progress report issued by Secretary COiOED. According to the report, during August, 2021, […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib on Wednesday said the entire nation wanted to see the ‘corrupt’ leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) behind bars for looting national wealth ruthlessly. In a live telecast from the Pakistan Television (PTV), the minister lashed out at the PML-N leadership for committing ‘systematic’ corruption […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) on Wednesday served notices and environmental protection order to various brick kilns, marble factories and bitumen plants upon violating the law and polluting the environment. Enforcement and Monitoring team of Pak-EPA was headed by Deputy Director Legal and Enforcement, Aamir Abbas Khan and Deputy Director Research and Investigation Sadia […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) and Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote the industry-academia linkage. As per the MoU, both sides will work together to promote research culture to boost industrialisation in the region and produce demand-driven graduates for the industry. Both IIUI and […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: The KSE 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) lost 6.28 points on Wednesday, with a nominal negative change of 0.01 per cent, closing at 47, 413.46 points against 47, 419.74 points on the last working day. A total of 536, 640, 545 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: England captain Joe Root’s sublime form in the ongoing ICC World Test Championship series against India has helped him reclaim the top spot for batters in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings after nearly six years. The 30-year-old had started the series in fifth position but his 507 runs in three Tests […]
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