ISLAMABAD: A delegation led by Cheng Guoping, External Security Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China met Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood at the Foreign Office here on Friday and discussed matters of mutual interest. The foreign secretary reiterated Pakistan’s strong condemnation of the terrorist attack in Karachi on […]
Read MoreDelegates of India and Pakistan Thursday got into a fresh verbal duel in the UN Security Council ministerial-level meeting on food security, after Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari denounced New Delhi’s repressive actions in occupied Kashmir, saying it is “implementing a racist policy” in the disputed territory. The Indian delegate to the UN […]
Read MorePESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary Dr Shahzad Khan Bangash on Friday inaugurated the District Resource and Communication Centre (DRCC) at the Deputy Commissioner Office, Abbottabad. Speaking on the occasion, he said that DRCC would play an instrumental role in keeping the district administration connected to their citizens round-the-clock through telephone lines, wireless communication network […]
Read MoreRAWALPINDI: Commissioner Rawalpindi Noor ul Amin Mengal has been given additional charge for the post of Chairman, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rawalpindi (BISER). The Punjab Government on Friday issued a notification and gave additional charge of Chairman, BISER to Commissioner Rawalpindi Division, Noor ul Amin Mengal. According to spokesman BISER, Arslan […]
Read MoreKARACHI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday urged the business community to focus on the growth of export-oriented sectors like Information Technology and agriculture related industry. He promised to develop Export Industrial Zones in all parts of the country for that purpose where exporters would be encouraged to invest by providing them facilities like […]
Read MoreKARACHI: Korangi Association of Trade and Industry’s (KATI) President Salman Aslam has welcomed the government’s decision to ban the import of more than 80 non-essential luxury items. “Positive and concrete steps are certainly needed to overcome the worst crisis in the history of the national economy,” he said in a statement on Friday. […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Expressing concerns over delay in the mega project of Railway Main Line (ML-1) under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives, Ahsan Iqbal Friday directed the railway authorities to speed up the pace of the project. Chairing a preparatory meeting on the joint working group on Transport […]
Read MoreHYDERABAD: A woman was killed and her husband and two children were injured when the motorbike they were riding on collided with a car on a road near Qasim Chowk here on Friday. According to the police, the deceased woman was identified as Lubna Memon, wife of Hanif Memon. The injured were shifted […]
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