Day: December 10, 2021

ISLAMABAD:As the world observes International Human Rights Day on Friday, the Narendra Modi government in India continues to indiscriminately target the minorities with over 300 attacks in the first nine months of this year against Christians, making the country one of the worst for the community to live. Be it is the Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, […]

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned the extra-judicial killing of another three Kashmiris by Indian occupation forces in Shopian, in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) the earlier day. The Indian occupation forces have martyred at least 40 Kashmiris in fake encounters and so-called “cordon and search operations” since 1 October 2021. The Foreign Office […]

ISLAMABAD:Building on its momentum to maximize tax compliance, Federal Board of Revenue’s Inland Revenue Enforcement Network (IREN) Squads, has seized 8,320,000 illegal cigarettes worth Rs. 21,479,625 involving duties and taxes of Rs. 17,242,635 in the month of November, 2021. Likewise, in the first five months of FY- 2021-22, IREN has seized non duty/tax paid cigarettes […]

ISLAMABAD:Margalla Hills National Park’s flora and fauna is exposed to serious threats of survival due to regular fire incidents and carefree visitors who hurl waste everywhere with impunity. Spanning over 17,386 hectares, Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP) comprises of six trails (hiking tracks) and four of them are opened for public and over 17,000 regular […]

ISLAMABAD:Federal Minister for Education, Professional Training, National Heritage and Culture, Shafqat Mahmood, held a bilateral meeting with Dr. Aishath Ali, Minister for Education, Maldives and Ms. Athiya Naseer, State Minister for Education, Maldives on the sidelines of 14th General Conference of ICESCO and 2nd Edition of Global Forum on Higher Education taking place in Cairo, […]

ISLAMABAD:Federal Minister for Education, Professional Training, National Heritage and Culture, Shafqat Mahmood, held a bilateral meeting with Egyptian Education Minister Prof. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar on the sidelines of 14th General Conference of ICESCO and 2nd Edition of Global Forum on Higher Education taking place in Cairo, Egypt. Shafqat Mahmood thanked the Egyptian Higher Education Minister […]

ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday urged the international community to help avert a looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, which was facing severe economic problems. Since the 40 million Afghan people were facing problems, Pakistan, which was also hosting an extraordinary meeting of the OIC Council of Foreign Minister in Islamabad [on December 19] , […]

ISLAMABAD:Indus River System Authority (IRSA) Thursday released 87475 cusecs water from various rim stations with inflow of 32553 cusecs. According to the data released by IRSA, water level in the Indus River at Tarbela Dam was 1452.43 feet, which was 60.43 feet higher than its dead level 1392 feet.Water inflow and outflow in the dam […]