Day: December 16, 2021

BEIJING:Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has transported fresh consignments of 15 million doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines by five special flights from the Capital International Airport Beijing to Islamabad, PIA Country Manager, Qadir Bux Sangi said on Wednesday. The national flag carrier launched special flights PAK-6852, PAK-6853, PK-6856, PK-6857 and PK-6858 respectively and airlifted fresh consignments […]

ISLAMABAD:Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has been ranked 485th amongst the world’s greenest universities by UI’s Green Metric world university rankings released the other day. A total of 912 universities from 84 countries participated in the competition. As compared to previous year’s ranking, AIOU has significantly improved its position worldwide by taking practical measures on […]

ISLAMABAD:Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom (MoITT) through Universal Service Fund (USF) awarded contracts worth approximately Rs300 million to Jazz for providing High Speed Mobile Broadband services on M3 and M5 Motorways. Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Syed Amin Ul Haque and Federal Minister for Communications, Murad Saeed witnessed the contract signing ceremony […]

ISLAMABAD:The alarm bells are sounding. The United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the donor community have all been warning of the humanitarian catastrophe emerging with the imminent collapse of the Afghan economy. According to an article published on the website of Atlantic Council, the withdrawal of US and allied forces from […]

ISLAMABAD:The Fleming Fund Country Grant Pakistan implementing partner DAI and its sub partner Indus Hospital Network in collaboration with the Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Society of Pakistan (MMIDSP) organized five seminars on multiple sites all over the country to sensitize healthcare workers over Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR). The topic of the seminars was “Strategies to […]

ISLAMABAD:Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mehmood on Wednesday said that Pakistan would continue it support to current Afghan government for development of the neighboring country Afghanistan. A five-member delegation led by Minister of Higher Education Afghanistan Abdul Baqi Haqqani called on Federal Minister for Education and Profession Training Shafqat Mahmood, said a […]

ISLAMABAD:The construction work on the dualization of 796 km long Chaman-Quetta-Karachi-Highway would be initiated from next month aimed to provide best communication facilities, an official of the Balochistan government said on Wednesday. He said due to the efforts of the Balochistan government, in the current financial year, the federal government has allocated Rs 81.582 billion […]

ISLAMABAD:The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday issued notice to the Secretary Mineral Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in a case against crusher plants in Suraj Gali area of Haripur district of the province. A three-member SC bench comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah heard the case regarding declaration […]