Day: January 28, 2022

Pakistan has strongly called for unfreezing Afghanistan’s financial reserves, estimated at $9.5 billion, that are “critically” needed to revive the country’s war-battered economy and to save lives of millions of suffering Afghans. “There is no legal justification for depriving the Afghan people of their national assets,” Ambassador Munir Akram told the UN Security Council which […]

ISLAMABAD: COMSTECH and LRBT in collaboration with Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Pakistani mission in Niger has scheduled to arrange eye camps for cataract surgeries and training workshops in Niamey, Niger from January 31 to February 07. This was revealed by the Coordinator General COMSTECH, Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary during a press conference. He […]

ISLAMABAD: Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday examined the audit paras for the year 2019-20 pertaining to the ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development and Ministry of Railways. The meeting was held at Parliament House under the chairmanship of MNA Rana Tanveer Hussain. The meeting was attended by members of the committee including […]

ISLAMABAD: Chief Minister Balochistan Abdul Quddus Bizenjo accorded approval for recruitment against 5,210 vacant posts in various departments in a bid to provide job opportunities on merit to unemployed youth was promised by the incumbent government. Under the vision of Chief Minister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo of providing maximum job opportunities to the youth of the […]

ISLAMABAD: National wrestling coach Muhammad Anwar wants steps to be taken to promote wrestling in the country saying there was tremendous amount of talent in the country of the century’s old sport. “Wrestling is a cultural and centuries old sport and Pakistani wrestlers have won numerous medals at international level but they need encouragement at […]

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib said on Thursday that Prime Minister Imran Khan has introduced historic reforms in judicial system to provide speedy and equitable justice. In his tweet, Minister of State Farrukh Habib said that removal of obstacles in the way of speedy justice within the criminal law would […]

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Communication, Dr Shahbaz Gill on Thursday said there was no representation of opposition in any committees of the Sindh Assembly. No member of the opposition was given any representation in committees of Sindh Assembly which was totally a undemocratic attitude of the provincial government, he tweeted. […]

ISLAMABAD: The minorities of Christian community in India faced 486 incidents of violence and harassment during 2021 which has been declared the “most violent year” for the community. According to reporter, the United Christian Forum (UCF), a rights body that maintains a database of incidents of violence and intimidation in India, said 2021 saw an […]