Distt Admin to launch drug free Peshawar campaign

PESHAWAR:The District Administration has prepared a comprehensive plan to make Peshawar city free from drug addicts and rehabilitate the addicted persons.   In a briefing to Special Assistant to Chief Minister Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif here on Tuesday, Commissioner Riaz Khan Mehsud said that he would supervise the campaign and all the drug addicts would […]

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Philip Morris International introduces new sustainability strategies, goals in its 2021 report

ISLAMABAD:Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) Tuesday released its third annual Integrated Report (‘the Report”) which outlines the PMI’s new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework based upon a formal sustainability materiality assessment conducted in 2021.   The Report also includes an updated Statement of Purpose as well as detailed information about PMI’s strategic vision, performance, […]

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UET, Pakistan Tobacco Board ink MoU

PESHAWAR:University of Engineering Technology (UET) Peshawar and Pakistan Tobacco Board (PTB) and National Center for Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC) have entered into a collaboration, where they will work together on “Detection and Estimation of tobacco crop through Geographic Image Analysis” for the period of 2022-2023.   The documents were endorsed by Chief Statistical […]

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PSX continued with bearish trend, loses 489 points

ISLAMABAD:The KSE 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued with bearish trend on Tuesday, losing 489.93 points, with a negative change of 1.15 percent, closing at 41,950.32 points against 42,440.25 points on the last working day.   A total of 169,707,409 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 118,986,341 shares […]

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DC directs to pay attention to Polio refusal cases

RAWALPINDI:Deputy Commissioner Tahir Farooq on Tuesday directed the officials of the District Health Authority to pay special attention to polio refusal and unattended cases and convince the parents that polio drops were not harmful.   Chairing a meeting to review the ongoing anti-polio campaign which started on May 23, he directed the officials to monitor […]

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Federal Board SSC annual exams 2022 to continue as per schedule

ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) on Tuesday announced that the annual examination of matriculation 2022 would continue as per schedule.   Keeping in view the current political situation in the country, Federal Board has directed the students through a notification that in case of facing difficulty to reach exam centres established […]

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