Staff Writer Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Umer Rehman Malik this week paid tribute to the PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on his death anniversary. In a message, he said Zulfikar Ali Bhutto – a former President and Prime Minister – gave the country 1973 constitution, nuclear technology, empowered youth, established heavy industry, developed […]
Read MoreNewswire Rome: Senior Italian diplomat Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo this week joined The European House as Principal Expert for geopolitical affairs. “Delighted and honoured to join The European House @Ambrosetti_as Principal Expert for geopolitical affairs. Thank you to @ValerioDeMolli Managing Partner and CEO of @Ambrosetti,” he said in a tweet. ?The European House – Ambrosetti is […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) has identified multiple constitutional, legal and operational challenges to the conduct of an early election. FAFEN, in a statement, said the Supreme Court would hopefully take a prompt decision about the constitutionality of the measures leading to the dissolution of the National Assembly as delay would accrue […]
Read MoreNewswire Beijing: A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson this week warned the United States about backing the “Taiwan independence” forces under the pretext of “democracy,” and the attempt to serve the strategy of using Taiwan to contain China will get nowhere. Spokesperson Wang Wenbin made the remarks at a daily press briefing in response to a […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Vice Chairman Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani remains the longest serving Prime Minister of Pakistan till date. Gilani, was born on July 9, 1952. He is a respected Pakistani politician who served as 18th Prime Minister of Pakistan from March 25, 2008, until his judicial ouster on April 26, […]
Read MoreMoscow: Lack of response from the Council of Europe, the EU and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to the abuse of Russian prisoners of war carried out by the Ukrainian military is criminal, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “They are keeping quiet. There is no response to these war […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: The Chinese embassy in Pakistan said this week that the partnership of China and Pakistan was contributing to the public well-being of Pakistan. “H.E. PM @ImranKhanPTI (Prime Minister Imran Khan) attended the grounding ceremony of establishment of 200 beds accident & emergency center at PIMS (Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences),” the embassy […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: China’s support will open new avenues of progress and prosperity for the Muslim World, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Special Representative for Interfaith Harmony and Middle East Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi said last week. Speaking at a news conference here, he remarked that Pakistan’s relationship with China has been further strengthened during […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Faisalabad: Engineer Ahmad Hassan, Chairman of Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI)’s Standing Committee on Research and Development, urged the government this week to follow China in stopping electricity wastage. He pointed out that the industrial sector of Pakistan was wasting 3000MW of costly electricity annually only due to the use […]
Read MoreScientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star’s mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the team discovered six slowly-expanding rings and two hourglass-shaped structures caused by the high-speed ejection of matter out into space. The results of the […]
Read MoreOur Solar System is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began to condense on itself gravitationally ~ 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud contracted, it began to spin and shaped itself into a disk revolving about the highest gravity mass at its centre, which […]
Read MoreResearchers have shown a new compound delivered in a nasal spray is highly effective in preventing and treating COVID-19 caused by the Delta variant in mice. The researchers, including at UBC, Université de Sherbrooke, and Cornell University, believe this is the first treatment of its kind proven to be effective against all COVID-19 variants of […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Dua-e-Chehlum and Qur’an Khawani for former Interior Minister and senior PPP leader Senator Rehman Malik was held at his residence this week in which a large number of people from all walks of life including political, religious and social personalities participated and prayed for the departed soul of Late Abdul Rehman Malik. PPP […]
Read MoreNewswire London: Dua-e-Chehlum and Qur’an Khawani for former Interior Minister and senior PPP leader Senator Rehman Malik was held at his historical residence in London in which a large number of people from all walks of life including political, religious, media and social personalities participated and prayed for the departed soul of Late Abdul Rehman […]
Read MoreNewswire Lahore: The British Council in collaboration with the British High Commission (BHC) on Saturday celebrated the success of outstanding alumni of UK universities from Pakistan with the 7th Annual UK Alumni Awards and distributed certificates to Chevening mentors. Head of Communications and Public Diplomacy at the BHC, Fouzia Younis along with British Council’s Director […]
Read MoreNewswire Venice: Tourists in Venice are being armed with water pistols as part of attempts to fend off predatory seagulls intent on snatching their food while dining outdoors. The innovative idea is among plans being discussed by the Venice hoteliers’ association (AVA) which says that tourists are increasingly alarmed by the behaviour of the large […]
Read MoreNewswire Canberra: Pakistani High Commissioner to Australia Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri this week attended Australian War College International Day. “Glad to attend Australian War College International Day. Pakistan Army & Air Force officers are attending the Australian War College as International Students. Guests thoroughly enjoyed food and music,” he tweeted after the event. The Australian War […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Ambassador of Denmark to Pakistan Lis Rosenholm this week expressed a keen interest in the green transition in Pakistan and the exchange of knowledge with Pakistan about renewable energy. In an interview, she highly appreciated the 10 Billion Tree Tsunami Initiative. The envoy said that Pakistan and Denmark share the ambition to fight […]
Read MoreNewswire Wembley will host the revived ‘Finalissima’ match between UEFA EURO 2020 winners Italy and CONMEBOL Copa America 2021 champions Argentina on 1 June. European football’s governing body Uefa and South American counterparts Conmebol agreed last year to play three editions of the intercontinental match. Twenty-nine years after its last edition, the relaunch of this […]
Read MoreLahore: With the aim of reducing the national side’s gap with the leading international teams and creating more opportunities for players to grow and evolve according to the demands of the contemporary game, the Pakistan Cricket Board this week unveiled a bumper season for the women cricketers. Bismah Maroof’s side will compete in eight international […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Ambassador of Italy to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese said this week that Italy hosts the largest number of Pakistani diaspora in the European Union. Speaking to the business community in Islamabad on Wednesday, the envoy urged Pakistani businessmen and traders to make efforts to promote mutual trade and economic ties between the two nations. […]
Read MoreDing Gang The Russia-Ukraine conflict has demonstrated once again that the model of European integration, of which NATO is an important part, cannot be used to develop political and economic security order in Asia. After the Cold War, a dominant international understanding emerged that the European model should be appropriate for other regions. This view […]
Read MoreDing Gang Last Monday, Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 5 percent to its lowest closing level since March 2016, while the Hang Seng Technology Index sank 11 percent, the biggest one-day drop since the index went live in July 2020. In the US, the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index fell for a third […]
Read MoreDalia Al-Aqidi Even though it has been more than a month since Russia’s deadly invasion of Ukraine began, Americans are still closely following the news to gather all the details. They are not shy in expressing their admiration for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his pride in his people’s high-spirited defense of their country in […]
Read MoreLaura Chinchilla & Maria Fernanda Espinosa The world is well aware that the climate crisis is one of the main stumbling blocks to sustainable development. And yet, despite the dramatic evidence of the lethal consequences of climate change, and despite possessing the knowledge, technologies, and resources to fix it, we continue on the same high-carbon […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: To celebrate the 62nd Birthday of His Majesty the Emperor Naruhito, the Ambassador of Japan H.E. Mr. WADA Mitsuhiro and his wife hosted a reception at a local hotel in Islamabad on March 29. The reception was attended by the Ministers such as (the chief guest) Syed Fakhar Imam, Federal Minister for National […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Senior Italian diplomat Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo this week urged Afghanistan to promote education, especially for women. He retweeted a post by History of Afghanistan, which read: “1,000 years ago, the region of Afghanistan was a bastion of learning & pioneering educational institutions. Europe’s first college was modelled after the Islamic College (madrasa), which […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Pakistan’s efforts to restore ecosystems were praised this week by the United Nations Environment Program. Large-scale restoration initiatives, such as The Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Project, are central to Pakistan’s efforts to support the UN Decade and promote ecosystem restoration, SAID UNEP’s Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Dechen Tsering in a statement. […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said this week that China was ready to build partnerships with the Islamic world for the promotion of multilateralism and democracy in international relations as well as for unity and cooperation. “China is ready to build four partnerships with Islamic countries. We should be partners […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari this week said Prime Minister Imran Khan cannot become Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Speaking to journalists here along with former prime minister and opposition leader in the Senate Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, Senator Sherry Rehman, Faisal Karim Kundi and Shazia Marri, Bilawal Bhutto said that […]
Read MoreMoscow: Moscow has warned that relations with the US are ‘on the verge of a breakdown,’ and has summoned the US ambassador to officially protest President Joe Biden’s description of Vladimir Putin as a ‘murderous dictator.’ A Russian Foreign Ministry statement this week referred to Biden’s “recent unacceptable statements” about Putin, referring to Biden’s criticism […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Beijing: On March 17, China and Pakistan agreed to execute the mega ML-1 railway up-gradation project under the framework of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) on a priority basis. This is a major development and also the implementation of the important consensus of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s meeting with Chinese top leaders during […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Karachi: The Sindh provincial government has launched the construction of Karachi’s Red Line Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) project, a Joint venture (JV) of China Railway and AM Associates worth Pakistani Rs 16 billion. The Sindh provincial government will buy 250 buses from China soon for the project. Trans Karachi – the operator of […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Rawalpindi: Prime Minister Imran Khan this week performed the groundbreaking of the Rawalpindi Ring Road project – a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) venture. The 38.3-kilometer-long Ring Road project will comprise six lanes and five interchanges. Addressing the ceremony, the Prime Minister said that RRD project will ease out traffic flow in the […]
Read MoreThe first worlds beyond our solar system were discovered three decades ago. Since then, close to 5,000 exoplanets have been confirmed in our galaxy. Astronomers have detected another 5,000 planetary candidates — objects that might be planets but have yet to be confirmed. Now, the list of planets has shrunk by at least three. In […]
Read MoreOur Solar System is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began to condense on itself gravitationally ~ 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud contracted, it began to spin and shaped itself into a disk revolving about the highest gravity mass at its centre, which […]
Read MoreAn interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Missouri, Children’s Mercy Kansas City and Texas Children’s Hospital has used a new data-driven approach to learn more about persons with Type 1 diabetes, who account for about 5-10% of all diabetes diagnoses. The team gathered its information through health informatics and applied artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Read MoreNewswire Rome: Italian president Sergio Mattarella marked Italian Unity Day this week by saying that Italy and “other countries that share democratic values” must “defeat the rationale behind the war begun by the Russian Federation in the centre of Europe.” “Italians and Europeans are called on to show solidarity and help towards a people affected […]
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