Day: January 21, 2022

ISLAMABAD:Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC) is an attached department of Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development has sent over 33, 964 workers to abroad from August 2018 to January 17, 2022. An official source told reporter here on Thursday said that Pakistan is the sixth most populous country of the world, possesses highly skilled, […]

ISLAMABAD:As many as 1100 degrees were conferred to the BS, MS and PhD students at the NUST combined convocation of Research Centre for Modelling and Simulation, Research Institute for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Studies, US-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Energy and NUST Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies. The degree awarding ceremony was held at […]

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday indicted former chief judge Gilgit Baltistan Rana Shamim in contempt of court case pertaining his allegation against ex-chief justice Saqib Nisar in an affidavit. However, the court decided not to frame charges against owner of a media house Mir Shakeelur Rehman, senior journalists Ansar Abbasi and Aamir […]

ISLAMABAD:Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) is striving to minimize the accident ratio by educating road users and ensuring strict implementation of traffic rules. It was stated by SSP (Traffic) Rai Mazhar Iqbal while addressing the concluding ceremony of two days road safety education workshop organised by ITP here at Rangers Headquarters (17th Wing) Saidpur, Islamabad to […]

ISLAMABAD:The National Accounts Committee (NAC) Thursday approved the revised and final figures of Pakistan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of 5.37% against the provisional numbers of 3.9% for the fiscal year 2020-21 (FY21). According to the final numbers approved by the committee, the per capita increased to Rs 266,614 or US$ 1,666 in 2020-21 […]

ISLAMABAD:The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has announced scholarships for PhD Programme in United States of America (USA) FIR Fall 2022 and Spring/Summer 2023. According to HEC, the scholarships have been announced under US-Pakistan Knowledge Corridor, a project of Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. HEC has invited applications for scholarships in PhD Programme in designated US Universities. […]

ISLAMABAD:Minister for Energy Hammad Azhar on Thursday expressed deep grief over Lahore’s blast which caused loss of precious lives and injuries to many persons. He said the government would carry out complete investigation into the said incident and culprits involved in it would be netted very soon. Such unscrupulous elements would not be allowed to […]

ISLAMABAD:Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Thursday expressed deep and sorrow over loss of precious human lives in the Lahore blast. The minister extended his condolences to the families of those killed in the blast and prayed for speedy recovery of the injured.