Newswire Islamabad: To commence the celebrations of Year 2022 which marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Pakistan, the Government of Japan has announced the Official Logo for this special occasion signifying historic relations between Japan and Pakistan. The logo epitomizes the hope for further development of friendly ties […]
Read MoreTokyo: After thirteen days of serious competitions with the Paralympians’ best performance, the Tokyo Paralympics comes to a close tonight with the closing ceremony to be held at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium.“Harmonious Cacophony”, the theme of the closing ceremony, is acknowledging diversity among people and transforming their difference into a shared unity. Ambassador MATSUDA Kuninori […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom Dominic Raab said this week that beyond the matter of recognizing the Taliban government in Afghanistan, his country would continue to extend humanitarian assistance to its people.Addressing a joint press conference along with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the British […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Italy’s Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese said this week that Pakistan-Italy friendship was at an all-time high. The envoy said vast opportunities existed to enhance mutual trade and investment between Pakistan and Italy and businessmen and traders from both countries can reap the benefits.Speaking to the business community in Islamabad, the envoy urged […]
Read MoreNewswire Italians call their home country il bel paese for good reason. “The Beautiful Country” more than lives up to such a lofty moniker with miles of gorgeous coastlines, soaring mountains, and lush terrain stretching from the tip of the boot in the south to the peaks of the Alps in the north.Italy is synonymous […]
Read MoreNewswire Multan: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari this week took a jibe at Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Shehbaz Sharif saying whenever Shehbaz Sharif makes a statement his party members distance themselves calling it his ‘personal decision.’Bilawal further claimed: “If Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) had stayed (united), it could hold a long march, […]
Read MoreIslamabad: UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab this week visited Pakistan to discuss how the two countries can work closely together on the situation in Afghanistan.He held meetings with Prime Minister Imran Khan, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Chief of Army Staff General Bajwa. Discussions focused on securing a safe passage for those leaving Afghanistan, […]
Read MoreMisbah-ul-Haq and Waqar Younis have stepped down from their positions as head coach and bowling coach of the national men’s team respectively. Misbah cited spending “considerable time away from my family in a bio-secure environment” because of Covid-19-related restrictions as the reason for his decision, while Waqar said that since he and Misbah had started […]
Read MoreHu Xijin Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating recently said that China’s “great problem” is that “it [China] is now a state as large as the United States, and with the potential of being much larger – an unforgivable sin for American triumphalists.” The former Australian head of state made such a statement when accusing […]
Read MoreWang Wen Some people say the year 2021 is witnessing the world economy obviously walking out of its darkest moment.They are perhaps right if we look at the numbers. Based on the predictions of multiple agencies, world economic growth is expected to stand at 6 percent this year, with the growth of China, the US, […]
Read MoreJoseph Dana The delta variant of the coronavirus disease is wreaking havoc around the world and wealthy countries are deploying booster shots as a defense. With remarkable speed, the US has pushed ahead with a plan to offer a third vaccination jab as an attempt to curb the spread within its borders. This response is […]
Read MoreAlistair Burt What a difference a few weeks makes. Since my highlighting, in a July column, the harsh media spotlight under which the US decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan was already being seen in London, we have had to confront the reality of the consequences. While by far the most painful aspect has been […]
Read MoreNewswire Bangkok: “The runway of the HKIA #Kabul international airport is open. I see airplanes landing and taking off ”. With a dry post on Twitter where he shares the most beautiful photos of his Rome and pets, career diplomat Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo, born in 1957, seems like a spectator rather than a protagonist as […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan this week directed Power Division to employ technology to save paying consumers from load-management in low recovery grids. Prime Minister Imran Khan chaired 48th meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) here.The meeting was attended by Federal Ministers Hammad Azhar, Dr. Fehmida Mirza, Asad Umar, Shaukat Fayaz Tareen, Dr. […]
Read MoreWan Lin and Lu Yameng China’s first official regulation on education supervision since the founding of the People’s Republic of China took effect this week. Education authorities said the regulation will mainly focus on local governments and schools’ implementation of the newly introduced measures to reducing pressure on students and parents as China further advances […]
Read MoreNewswire Kashmore: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari this week heavily criticised the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)’s “confused” strategy to oust the government and slammed the alliance for “wasting” his party’s time. Speaking to journalists, he advised the alliance to first resign from the parliament and then head to Islamabad for the long march […]
Read MoreVladivostok: Russian President Vladimir Putin named law, economics and politics as the spheres in which he considers himself an expert at a back-to-school gathering on Wednesday to mark the occasion of the Day of Knowledge during his visit to Russia’s Far East.“Technically we are having a ‘lesson’ today. Had it been a real lesson, then […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)’s Rashakai Special Economic Zone (SEZ) will get complete gas connections and supply by December this year, the authorities said.The SEZ will also get 50 Megawatt (MW) electricity by June 2022, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Omar Ayub Khan said. Omar Ayub Khan, chaired a high-level meeting to basically […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Gwadar: The Balochistan provincial government has said that safe drinking water will be available to resolve the issue in Gwadar – the hub of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).Chief Secretary Mathar Niaz Rana held a meeting here this week to discuss the issues in Gwadar. The meeting was informed that immediate steps had […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Badin: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said this week that Pakistan wishes to connect China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) with the European Union (EU).Speaking to the journalists at the Badin Press Club, the minister said by connecting CPEC with EU, economic activity in the region will get a major boost. He said: […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Ambassador of Switzerland to Pakistan Benedict de Cerjat in his recent media interview talked about his impressions about Pakistan and various touristic attractions of Pakistan.Besides, the ambassador also talked about trade and economic cooperation between the two countries. Ambassador Benedict de Cerjat hoped trade volume between the two countries will increase. Here is […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: The Government of Denmark signed a DKK 10 million partnership agreement this week with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) – UN Migration Agency in Pakistan to assist Pakistani authorities and build capacity to meet the challenges occurred on Pakistan as a result of irregular migration. Under the signed partnership agreement, Denmark will […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Japan this week extended a grant assistance of JPY3,445 million (approx. US$31.4 million) to Pakistan for the extension of maternal and child health care facilities in Sindh.Notes to this effect were signed and exchanged between MATSUDA Kuninori, Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan and Zulfiqar Haider, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan Mustafa Yurdakul has said the Turkish nation demonstrated that they would never accept a yoke on their homeland soaked with martyrs blood. Addressing a reception held in the Turkish Embassy this week to commemorate the 99th anniversary of the Great Victory, the ambassador, while referring to a message of his […]
Read MoreTokyo: Japan is the host city of the 2020 Paralympic Games for a second time in the Games’ history, but Japan has been implementing barrier-free travel and accessibility throughout Tokyo and the entire country since 2006. The New Barrier-Free Law was passed in 2006 to help make Tokyo a more accessible city for the elderly […]
Read MoreIslamabad: A coalition for Pakistan’s private sector has been launched by the Pakistan Environment Trust, where leading companies have shown their climate stewardship to deliver net zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) at the corporate level – 10 companies across textile and FMCG sectors are the first to commit to this goal. The commitment to net […]
Read MoreNewswire Milan: Moise Kean will be the final piece of Juventus’ post-Cristiano Ronaldo attack after the Italy forward completed his move from Everton on Tuesday.Kean, 21, returns to the club where he began his professional career as an academy graduate on a two-year loan which will then turn into a permanent sale for a reported […]
Read MoreCape Town: Dale Steyn has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, closing the curtain on a 20-year career in which he became South Africa’s highest wicket-taker in tests and arguably the country’s greatest ever fast bowler.Steyn retired from the five-day game in 2019 but had been available for limited-overs cricket and hoped to […]
Read MoreWhat transpires in comedies and cartoons when a character has a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is not far off from people’s perceptions of the real world, finds a new study from the University of Waterloo. Intended to illustrate the characters’ decision-making dilemma with comedic results, the moral character and […]
Read MoreResearchers from the University of Kent, the Research Institute for Environment Treatment and Vita-Market Ltd have discovered a universal mathematical formula that can describe any bird’s egg existing in nature, a feat which has been unsuccessful until now. Egg-shape has long attracted the attention of mathematicians, engineers, and biologists from an analytical point of view. […]
Read MoreAnxiety, addiction, and other psychiatric disorders are often characterized by intense states of what scientists call arousal: The heart races, blood pressure readings rise, breaths shorten, and “bad” decisions are made. In an effort to understand how these states influence the brain’s decision-making processes, scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai analyzed […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Italy’s Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese said this week that Italy will support ‘Glaciers and Students’ project in the Gilgit-Baltistan.He was speaking at Pre-COP26 Workshop at the Karakoram Int’l University (KIU) jointly organsied by EvK2CNR and KIU. The Ambassador, addressing the audience virtually, through Zoom, expressed his appreciation for organizing a workshop addressing […]
Read MoreDing Gang “You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” This saying has been repeatedly come into my mind as the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches.I can still recall an exhibition of children’s artwork that debuted at the Museum of the City of New York on the first anniversary of […]
Read MoreHu Xijin The USS Kidd guided missile destroyer and the USCGC Munro cutter made a transit in the Taiwan Straits on Friday, the eighth time the US has sent warships through the Taiwan Straits this year. On the same day, the PLA held multiple military exercises on both sides of the Straits.The two pieces of […]
Read MoreMohamed Chebaro The blast at Kabul airport, the subsequent US retaliation, and the Taliban’s condemnation of America’s so-called unilateral action has maybe distracted us from the criticism of the British government’s failure to evacuate hundreds of Afghans eligible for asylum in the UK.That failure could be permitted had Britain under Boris Johnson and his Brexiteer-dominated […]
Read MoreNidhal Guessoum While some teaching and learning took place inside classrooms during the pandemic, most of the education world went online. Now, however, most of the students and teachers in the Arab world and elsewhere are resuming in-person classes — with various kinds of health precautions and pedagogical changes. Indeed, the pandemic has affected how […]
Read MoreNewswire Rome: NATO head Jens Stoltenberg this week awarded Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo, the alliance’s Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan, with a medal for his contribution to the evacuation mission from the Central Asian country. “Secretary General @jensstoltenberg awarded the #NATO Meritorious Service Medal to our Senior Civilian Representative @pontecorvoste & his team for their service […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Top 100 Investigations – a book written by former Interior Minister, Chairman Institute of Research and Reforms (IRR) Senator Rehman Malik was launched this week by Sirajul Haq, Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan. Due to the situation because of Coronavirus when social distancing and isolation are being observed to control this deadly pandemic, the book […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi this week said the international community should continue its support to Afghanistan and should not abandon the country in the present situation.Addressing a news conference along with Foreign Minister of Netherlands Sigrid Kaag here, he said he discussed with the Dutch minister, the bilateral relations and the […]
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