Day: October 29, 2021

ISLAMABAD: Country Director World Bank for Pakistan, Najy Benhassine Thursday said the projection gap of Pakistan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate for the fiscal year 2020-21 and 2021-22 between the Bank and the Pakistan government was mainly due to uncertainties stemming out of the COVID pandemic, hoping that the final growth rate would be […]

ISLAMABAD: Balochistan has successfully established 31 new colleges of various educational levels for both girls and boys to ensure easy higher education in the far-flung areas of the province. The new colleges has been established in different districts of the province with cost of Rs2, 755 million during the last three year. According to official […]

ISLAMABAD: National Security Adviser (NSA) Dr Moeed Yusuf on Thursday said the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) had crossed the red line and exhausted the state’s patience and it should be mindful of the fact that there would be “NO armed militias of any sort in our country.” The NSA took to Twitter to condemn and […]

ISLAMABAD: In order to develop resilience against malnutrition and hunger in natural resource constraint areas of Thar Parker, Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) had conducted 07 training programs and trained over 1, 000 people to promote agriculture sector at micro-level. The initiative was aiming at to strengthen government’s effort to ensure sufficient intake of food […]

ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on Institutional Reforms was informed on Thursday that around 41 top level positions from 68 Public sector organisations are lying vacant due to different reasons. The meeting was chaired by Federal Minister for Education, Professional Training, National Heritage and Culture Shafqat Mahmood at the Cabinet division. The meeting was also attended […]

ISLAMABAD: The Zainab Alert app has been launched on Citizen’s Portal at relevant regional and district levels for combating emergency effectively and recovery of missing or abducted children. According to Ministry of Human Rights, around 1093 cases in which 655 open cases, , 439 closed cases and 466 cases had been received on ZARA app […]

ISLAMABAD: An Accountability Court (AC) on Thursday served notices to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on a plea seeking to dismiss reference against former secretary interior ministry Shahid Khan pertaining to a plot allegedly allotted illegally. The reference said the accused had embezzled the plot of National Police Foundation which was allocated for the families of […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s economy recovered in Fiscal Year 2021 due to the government’s effective lockdown strategy to contain the COVID-19, which was expected to gain upward trends in coming days, said a new World Bank report release on Wednesday. The October 2021 Pakistan Development Update: Reviving Exports shows that the country’s real GDP growth rebounded to […]