Day: February 22, 2022

ISLAMABAD:Amateur singers on Monday demanded resuming of Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) Online Talent Hunt music edition, a popular platform for emerging singers. PNCA talent hunt edition was aimed to promote music through weekly music competitions among young singers. The programme was an initiative to discover melodious voices and used to be held […]

ISLAMABAD:Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin was given detailed presentation on the progress of Kamyab Pakistan Program (KPP). While presiding a Steering Committee meeting of Kamyab Pakistan Program (KPP), the minister was informed that KPP was going successfully and applications for the award of loans were being received through SMS. Adviser to the […]

ISLAMABAD:Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday appointed a deputy director of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) as focal person in cases against uploading of blasphemous contents on social media and sought report from him on next hearing. The court asked the focal person to hold meetings with petitioners and their lawyers to address their objections regarding […]

ISLAMABAD:Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Farrukh Habib said on Monday Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) has ‘lost its mind’ after seeing failure in no-trust move, being planned against the Prime Minister. The Minister, in his response to the press conference of PML-N Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb, said her party came back to previous […]

ISLAMABAD:The KSE 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed bearish trend on Monday, losing 313.02 points, with a negative change of 0.69 percent, closing at 45,362.85 points against 45,675.87 points on the last working day. A total of 137,659,995 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 194,053,663 shares the previous […]

ISLAMABAD:Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam on Monday announced that around 800,000 scouts of Pakistan Boys Scouts Association would be engaged for the planting of 540 million trees under the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Plantation (TBTTP) project’s Spring season activities. The SAPM, after the signing ceremony of a […]

ISLAMABAD:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Minister for Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Faisal Amin Khan Gandapur has said that indeed a great achievement, restarting over 35 shut down industrial units creating thousands of local jobs in Dera Ismail Khan. In a tweet, he said that “despite challenges mission accomplished”, adding that with provision of gas and […]

ISLAMABAD:Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday said corruption and money-laundering were among the ‘most important’ issues confronted by countries like Pakistan. He, in a tweet, said Prime Minister Imran Khan had been raising his voice consistently on the issue (s) asking the rich countries to stop this exploitation [accommodation of laundered […]