ISLAMABAD: One minute silence was observed here Friday across the capital at 08: 59 a.m. on Youm-e-Istehsaal to mark the completion of third year of Indian military siege of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and illegal, immoral and unconstitutional step to strip its special status. The traffic was also came to a halt on […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRC) has handed over another consignment of 20 emergency relief trucks carrying 190 tons loaded with essential food items to NDMA for flood-affected people of Baluchistan and other affected regions. According to a press release issued by the embassy of Saudi Arabia here on Friday, around 2, […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Food Security and Research has formed ‘Olive Advisory Council’ in order to address the bottlenecks in olive value addition as well as to promote olive cultivation across the country to exploit the existing production potential. The advisory would be comprising on the representatives from chambers of commerce, Pakistan Business Council, […]
Read MorePakistan, speaking on behalf of Group of 77 (developing countries) and China, Thursday underscored the need for the outcome of the proposed United Nations “Summit of the Future” to incorporate the needs, priorities and aspirations of developing countries, with a renewed commitment to U.N. Charter and multilateralism. “The world today is the harbinger of the […]
Read MoreSARGODHA: Regional Police Officer (RPO) Mohammad Muhammad Azhar Akram on Friday inspected routes of Muharram 6 and 7 processions and directed the district police to follow Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by the Punjab home department for security. DPO Bilal Zafar Sheikh accompanied the RPO during his visit to inspect various routes. The RPO was […]
Read MorePESHAWAR: The World Bank (WB) would start two hydropower projects of 245 megawatts in Swat district this year, which on completion to generate over Rs13 billion income per year to the province. The World Bank mission under the leadership of World Bank senior energy specialist Muhammad Saqib held a high-level meeting with Secretary Energy and […]
Read MoreNearly a year after releasing his report, ‘Our Common Agenda’, a blueprint for global cooperation and reinvigorating multilateralism, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Thursday updated the General Assembly on progress made so far, saying the need for the report’s proposals “has only increased” amid the raging Ukraine war. “In addition to the triple planetary crisis of […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD: Minister for Power Khurram Dastagir Khan on Friday informed Senate that various steps have been taken by the government for reducing the flow and stock of circular debt. Replying to queries during question hour in the Senate, the minister said that the steps taken included the return on equity of independent power plants. Government-owned […]
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