UN rushing relief supplies, staff to Afghanistan’s quake-hit regions

Emergency lifesaving supplies continued to flow into quake-hit eastern Afghanistan, as United Nations humanitarians and partners rushed to help the most vulnerable communities, according to the U.N.   One of the UN teams on the ground, the refugee agency UNHCR, transported tons of relief items into the provinces of Khost and Paktika, where several thousand […]

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Pak, Saudi Arabia vast avenues to promote bilateral businesses: SACM Sindh

KARACHI:Special Assistant to CM Sindh on Investment Department and Public Private Partnership Projects (ID-PPPP) Syed Qasim Naveed Qamar said that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were brotherly muslim countries and business men of the both countries have lot of opportunities to promote trade relationship between these two countries.   Hopefully B2B meetings will provide a platform […]

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Al-Khidmat Foundation sends aid for quake victims in Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD:Al-Khidmat Foundation hands over five trucks aid for quake struck victims in Afghanistan.   Pakistan Afghanistan Cooperation Forum on Saturday handed over five trucks carrying 37.5 tons of food aid, winter bedding, tents, tarpaulins, and clothes to the Afghan authorities at Zeroline Ghulam Khan border crossing on Saturday.   Al-Khidmat Foundation arranged the aid under […]

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Minister inaugurates water schemes in Shingardar, Rasheedabad

PESHAWAR:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Housing, Dr. Amjad Ali Saturday inaugurated water supply schemes in Shingardar and Rasheedabad areas of Swat.   Addressing the inauguration ceremony, he said that the project would be completed with an estimated cost of Rs 15 million. He said that project that was long standing demand of area people, it would […]

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Hikmatyar, Muhammad Ammad win U17, U19 KP National Junior Squash title

PESHAWAR: Hikmatyar and Muhammad Ammad clinched the trophies of the U17 and U19 categories of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa All Pakistan National Junior Squash Championship played here at Qamar Zaman Squash Complex on Saturday.   Secretary Sports Tahir Khan Orakzai was the chief guest on this occasion who also witnessed the two finals of the U17 […]

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PM directs for installing sheds, water coolers outside utility stores

ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Saturday directed that sheds and water coolers should be installed outside the utility stores.   The head of Prime Minister’s Strategic Reforms Unit Salman Sufi said that the step was taken to facilitate people who stand in queues outside the utility stores.

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Govt to overcome all challenges soon; claims Tanvir Hussain

ISLAMABAD:Federal Minister for Education and Professional Development, Rana Tanvir Hussain Saturday said that the present government was utilizing all capabilities to uplift economy and taking wisely decisions to overcome challenges soon.   Talking to a private news channel, he expressed his confidence that within next few months the current inflation and other economic related crises […]

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Two-day conference on ‘Extreme Reporting’ begins

KARACHI:A two-day conference on ‘Extreme Reporting: Conflict and Peace in the Digital Age’ kicked off at the Centre of Excellence in Journalism at the Institute of Business Administration on Saturday.   IBA’s Dr S. Akbar Zaidi and CEJ-IBA’s executive director Amber Rahim Shamsi welcomed the participants and speakers to the event.   According to Amber, […]

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