QUETTA:Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar on Friday said that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision was to develop most backward area of the country on priority in order to alleviate poverty. He expressed these views while addressing a press conference along with Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo here at the Chief […]
Read MoreQUETTA:Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar met with Governor Balochistan Syed Zahoor Ahmed Agha at Governor House Quetta on Friday. During the meeting, the overall situation of the country and the province and issues of mutual interest including ongoing development projects under the Federal PSDP in Balochistan were discussed in detail.
Read MoreLondon, Nov 5 (AFP/APP):IAG, the owner of British Airways and Spanish carrier Iberia, announced Friday that its third-quarter net loss shrank sharply on the lifting of Covid travel restrictions. The loss after taxation stood at 574 million euros ($664 million) in the three months to September compared with 1.8 billion euros a year earlier, IAG […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON:Speakers at a special event organized by the Pakistan Embassy in Washington to mark the ‘Kashmir Black Day’ reaffirmed their solidarity with the Kashmiri people and called on India to end its gross human rights violations in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. They also condemned India’s unilateral and illegal actions of August 5, 2019, to annex […]
Read MoreHanoi, Nov 5 (AFP/APP):The Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam, postponed this year due to the pandemic, will be held in May 2022, the country’s Olympic Committee said Friday. The regional Olympics were scheduled to take place in Hanoi and 11 other locations in Vietnam from November 21 to December 2. But a devastating wave of […]
Read MoreBrasília, Nov 5 (AFP/APP):Brazil raised $8.4 billion in investments and license fees in an international tender to build and operate one of the world’s biggest 5G data networks, Communications Minister Fabio Faria said Friday. The final result — 46.8 billion reais ($8.4 billion) — came in just shy of the $9 billion the government had […]
Read MoreBy Sohail Ali LAHORE:Barry’s and FG/Din qualified for the main final of the Happy Cow Cheese Polo for Peace Cup 2021 after winning their semifinals here at the Jinnah Polo Fields (JPF) on Friday. In the first semifinal, Team Barry’s played well against Diamond Paints and outpaced them with a score of 6-2. Hamza Mawaz […]
Read MoreLAHORE:The Forest Department dismantled 721 illegal sawmills after Punjab Ombudsman Maj (retd) Azam Suleman Khan took notice over a news item about illegal logging of trees in Soan Valley of Khushab district, in collusion with the government officials. Also, illegal logging in an 8-kilometre radius of the said forests had also been halted by the […]
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