Private cellular company launches 7th Cohort of Naya Aghaaz

ISLAMABAD:Telenor Pakistan has launched its 7th cohort of the Naya Aghaz program to drive women’s reintroduction into the workforce. The Naya Aghaaz program, first launched in 2014, was designed to create an inventive way of acquiring talent that aims to get women back to work allowing them to re-invent themselves in their careers, said a […]

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Murree snowfall; CTP issue traffic advisory for visitors

RAWALPINDI:City Traffic Police (CTP) Rawalpindi on the directives of Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Rawalpindi Naveed Irshad on Tuesday finalized all the traffic arrangements in view of expected snowfall at the hill station of Murree during February 22 to 25. According to CTO, necessary instructions had been issued to the staff posted at the checkpoints at […]

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Minister, ED UNICEF discus COVID-19 initiatives

ISLAMABAD:A UNICEF delegation led by Ms. Catherine Russell, the Executive Director met with Federal Minister for Education, Professional Training, National Heritage and Culture Shafqat Mahmood and discussed initiatives taken during Covid-19. Key challenges like suffering of learning levels, increasing of dropout rate, enrollment of out of school children focusing especially on girls also came under […]

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Five-day Anti-Polio drive from February 28

RAWALPINDI:A five-day polio drive would commence in the entire district on February 28 to administer anti-polio drops to children less than five-year old. Chief Executive Officer(CEO) District Health Authority Dr Faiza Kanwal told reporter that 2964 polio teams would go door-to-door and administer polio drops to 719,000 children less than five years in all tehsils […]

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15 arrested for possessing illegal weapons, drugs, liquor

RAWALPINDI:Rawalpindi Police in their crackdown against illegal weapons, drugs and liquor rounded up 15 persons from different areas and recovered over seven kg charras, 80 liters liquor and three 30 bore pistols from their possession. A police spokesman informed that Race Course police held Muhammad Amir for having 1510 grams charras and Zahid Khan for […]

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Albania keen to enhance trade relation with Pakistan: Envoy

ISLAMABAD:The Non Resident Ambassador-Designate of the Republic of Albania, Kastriot Robo said that his country wanted to enhance trade relations with Pakistan as there were great opportunities for increasing the volume of trade between the two countries that should be exploited for mutual benefits. He said this while exchanging views with the business community during […]

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Court adjourns references against Pervaiz Ashraf till Mar 15

ISLAMABAD:An Accountability Court on Tuesday adjourned hearing till March 15, in rental power references against former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf. AC-I Judge Syed Asghar Ali heard the reference filed by National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The court adjourned hearing of the case without further proceeding due to absence of NAB prosecutor. NAB had named Pervaiz […]

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