KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah through a video link meeting with World Bank South Asia Regional Vice President Hartwig and Country Director Najy Benhassine discussed next partnership framework—2022-2026 in different sectors. The meeting was attended by Minister ...

Bahawalpur   -  The syndicate of Islamia University Bahawalpur has approved a budget of Rs7204.425 million for the financial year 2021-22 and a record development budget of Rs3572.060 million, A meeting of the syndicate was held under the chairmanship of Engineer Prof. Dr. Athar ...

Peshawar   -  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has directed the PDA authorities for necessary steps to hire the services of Education Testing and Evaluation Agency (ETEA) for recruitment against all the technical and non-technical positions. He also directed the PDA to ...

ISLAMABAD   -  The Ministry of Commerce organized a one-day virtual E-Commerce Youth Conference in collaboration with Kamyab Jawan Program and USAID PREIA. The objective of the conference was to give Pakistan’s youth a platform to share their recommendations that can assist the ...

ISLAMABAD   -  Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has stressed the need to evolve broad-based bilateral parliamentary and economic cooperation between Pakistan and Niger for tapping immense economic potential in either side. “The parliamentary cooperation would prove ...

Peshawar   -  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly once again witnessed chaos on Friday as Deputy Speaker Mahmood Jan asked minorities’ lawmaker Sardar Ranjeet Singh to leave the house. Kumar, elected from JUI ticket, started shouting in the session when he was not allowed to speak over ...

Peshawar   -  The district administration has issued a notification regarding closure of commercial and markets two consecutive days in a week. As per the notification issued by the deputy commissioner’s office, different closed days have been decided for different areas of the ...

ISLAMABAD   -    Pakistan yesterday called for a concerted international effort to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and to develop a vaccine that is accessible to all as a global public good.  “Pakistan remains opposed to any politicization of the issue,” Foreign ...

PESHAWAR    - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Friday removed Deputy Commissioner Malakand and DPO Dir Lower after two incidents of robberies in which tourists were deprived of their valuables in Thana tehsil of Malakan district and Osakai area of Dir Lower.  Special ...

FAISALABAD - Punjab Agriculture Minister Syed Hussain Jahania Gardezi inaugurated ‘Center for Genome Editing for Nutrition and Health’ at University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) here on Friday.The centre was set up with the total funding of Rs 1,799 million out of which Pakistan ...

LAHORE - Khyber Pakhtoonkha and Balochistan reached the final of National Men Throwball Championship, which is being conducted under the auspices of Pakistan Throwball Federation and in collaboration with Directorate of Youth Affairs at Bata Kundi. According to PTF Secretary Maqbool Arain, ...

ISLAMABAD   -   Pakistan yesterday summoned Chargé d’Affaires of Indian High Commission Suresh Kumar and conveyed a strong demarche to register the Government of Pakistan’s unequivocal rejection of India’s illegal and unilateral actions since 5 August ...

ISLAMABAD   -  Pakistan yesterday slammed India for trying to misguide the world on occupied Kashmir.  In response to Indian External Affairs Minister Jaishankar’s tweet on so-called ‘New Jammu Kashmir,’ at the completion of two years since India’s ...

LAHORE   -  Punjab Governor Ch Sarwar led a rally at Governor House on Thursday which was organised in connection with Kashmir Exploitation Day to express solidarity with the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. A large number of activists and provincial ministers ...

Peshawar   -  Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan here on Thursday led a solidarity walk on the completion of two years of Indian siege of Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir to show solidarity with the people of Kashmir.   The participants of rally were holding ...

LAHORE   -  Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid said here on Thursday that a master plan to beautify Lahore and make it clean and green had been prepared, and it would soon be tabled before CM Sardar Usman Buzdar. The plan was discussed in a meeting at Chief Minister’s ...

ISLAMABAD   -  The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Thursday provided relief items and critical medical equipment to Gilgit-Baltistan after the damages caused by torrential rains and land sliding incidents. According to a NDMA statement, relief goods have been ...

KHYBER   - Armed men martyred two Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldiers in the remote Tirah valley of Khyber tribal district on Thursday, official and local sources said. They said the gunmen fired at the paramilitary soldiers in Maidan area, which links Khyber and Orakzai districts. Qaiser ...

ISLAMABAD   -  The project steering committee of Ehsaas Tahafuz on Thursday approved the expansion of Tahafuz to 14 public sector hospitals in all federating units. The committee deliberated on the national scale-up of the programme. Chaired by Senator Dr. Sania Nishtar, SAPM on ...

ISLAMABAD   -  Urging the whole nation to take part in plantation drive of incumbent government, Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser said yesterday that Pakistan was one of the worst affected countries due to adverse impact of abrupt climate change.  He said, ...

PESHAWAR  -   Coronavirus positivity rate has reached 5.5% in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while health authorities claim to have increased the daily vaccination target in view of the increasing cases.  According to a statement from the office of DG Health KP, authorities had earlier ...

ISLAMABAD   -  Chairman Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani on Thursday said that long-standing religious, cultural and social ties between Pakistan and Iran need to be made the basis for economic cooperation and trade promotion.   Sanjrani expressed these views during a meeting with ...

LAHORE   -  The eighth meeting of the Public-Private Partnership Policy and Monitoring Board, which was held under the chair of Punjab CM Sardar Usman Buzdar on Thursday, decided to withdraw the Rawalpindi Ring Road project from the Public-Private Partnership Authority. It decided to ...

ISLAMABAD   -  The Drugs Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) on Thursday made several postings of Grade 18 and 17 officials assigning them additional tasks.  According to the documents, eight officials of Grade 18, five resident officers and two Grade 17 officers have ...

ISLAMABAD   -  Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday said that exploitation of Kashmiris in India was a test of conscience of the world.  In his message on Kashmir Siege Day, the PPP co-chairman said that the United Nations should through its charter restore human rights ...

ISLAMABAD   -  Korean Ambassador to Pakistan Suh Sangpyo called on Senator Syed Shibli Faraz, Federal Minister for Science and Technology in the minister’s office yesterday.  During the meeting, matters of mutual interest, technological advancements and research were ...

ATTOCK   -  One died while seven injured during different incidents in different areas of Attock. In the first incident, Hanan Akbar r/o Jahangira died when his bike was hit by a dumper near Hasanabdal. In the second incident, roof of a mud house collapsed in Jamil Town due to heavy ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday announced New Zealand will play three ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League ODIs and five Twenty20 Internationals on their first tour to Pakistan in 18 years.Rawalpindi’s Pindi Cricket Stadium will be the venue of the 17, 19 and 21 ...

LAHORE - Pakistani community activist and businessman Raja Suleman Raza has bought Mirpur Royals cricket team to play in Kashmir Premier League (KPL) to celebrate the culture of Mirpur.  Suleman Raza, President and Co-owner of Mirpur Royals team, has said that more than a million people ...

LAHORE - While reacting to the re-pas­sage of the Punjab Assem­bly’s privileges bill, Punjab Governor Chaudhry Moham­mad Sarwar Wednesday said that the power of prosecu­tion should lie with the judg­es only. “My objections to the Punjab Assembly’s Privilege ...