Nidhal Guessoum The Pentagon has released its eagerly awaited report on “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), but with rather bland and unspectacular conclusions. It left UFO enthusiasts unhappy, if not fuming. Still, the report was a very interesting development. Let us review this. First, why did the US Department of Defense need to release a report […]
Read MoreZheng Yongnian The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2017 proposed a new concept, the “Chinese approach” to modernization, according to which a country, independent of any interference or influence, should decide what political system to follow to achieve economic development. In the past, China faced the same problem that many […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo, NATO Senior Civilian Representative for Afghanistan visited Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, the acting Minister of Defense this week. The Office of the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan tweeted that “NATO continues support for the brave Afghan security forces”, after meeting Bismillah Khan at his office.Ambassador Pontecorvo further added that he […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan this week invited the opposition parties to sit with the government for improving and reforming the electoral process for the sake of future of democracy in Pakistan.“Since the elections in country have been controversial after 1970, we are striving to improve the election process. We have proposed election reforms and […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: China stands ready to forge even closer Belt and Road partnerships with various sides and follow a path of unity, cooperation, connectivity and joint development to jointly promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, President Xi Jinping said this week. Xi made the remark in a […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Iran’s Special Envoy of Foreign Minister for Afghanistan, Ebrahim Taherian Fard, called on Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi this week to discuss the Afghanistan peace process. During the meeting, views were exchanged on the Afghan peace process, regional security and issues of mutual interest.The Foreign Minister highlighted salient aspects of Pakistan’s consistent policy on […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari this week feared that that there could be an increase in terror incidents if the Pakistan policy in Afghan peace process was not corrected. The PPP leader condemned the terror incident in Lahore adding: “I had demanded on the floor of the Parliament that whatever this […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority chief Lt. General Asim Saleem Bajwa (retd) said this week that the pilot project of Chilli Farm with100 acres had been completed and in the next phase, around 3000 acres of land would be brought under chili cultivation. “Pilot project of Chilli Farm with100 acres is completed,” […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Islamabad: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Senator Shibli Faraz this week assured two Chinese steel firms of complete support as they contribute towards Pakistan’s prosperity. Representatives of the two companies, accompanied by a delegation of the local steel industry, met the Federal Minister and discussed the tax issues. The minister assured […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Pakistan has announced the inauguration of Pakistan China Condiments Industry Alliance.Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Syed Fakhar Imam announced the inauguration on Saturday afternoon stressing that the chilli farming project under the Alliance will enhance its production in the country.He said the Pakistan China Condiments Industry Alliance will promote […]
Read MoreCase Western Reserve University researchers studying prions — misfolded proteins that cause lethal incurable diseases — have identified for the first time surface features of human prions responsible for their replication in the brain. The ultimate goal of the research is to help design a strategy to stop prion disease in humans — and, ultimately, […]
Read MoreIn a bid to find or refine laboratory research models for cancer that better compare with what happens in living people, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report they have developed a new computer-based technique showing that human cancer cells grown in culture dishes are the least genetically similar to their human sources.The finding, they say, should […]
Read MoreNew research from MSU shows that an infant’s gut microbiome could contain clues to help monitor and support healthy neurological developmentWhy do some babies react to perceived danger more than others? According to new research from Michigan State University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, part of the answer may be found in […]
Read MoreUsing neural networks, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new method to search the human genome for beneficial mutations from Neanderthals and other archaic humans. These humans are known to have interbred with modern humans, but the overall fate of the genetic material inherited from them is still largely unknown. Among others, […]
Read MoreTo the human eye, most stationary objects appear to be just that — still, and completely at rest. Yet if we were handed a quantum lens, allowing us to see objects at the scale of individual atoms, what was an apple sitting idly on our desk would appear as a teeming collection of vibrating particles, […]
Read MoreIt could be a milestone on the path to detecting life on other planets: Scientists under the leadership of the University of Bern and of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS detect a key molecular property of all living organisms from a helicopter flying several kilometers above ground. The measurement technology could […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: UK’s Minister of State for South Asia and Commonwealth and Development Office, Lord Tariq Ahmad called on Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed this week and discussed matters related to promoting relations between the two countries.They also discussed matters of British Pakistanis, enhancing people to people contact and the cooperation in the field […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi this week underscored the importance of promoting inter-faith dialogue and combating defamation of religions. He stressed that Pakistan and UK should collaborate closely in that regard. The Foreign Minister expressed these views as he received British Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth, Lord Tariq Mahmood Ahmad […]
Read MoreNewswire Tokyo: The Japanese government has just unveiled its annual economic policy guidelines, which include new recommendations that companies permit their staff to opt to work four days a week instead of the typical five. Japan’s famously hard-working salarymen — and, increasingly, salarywomen — are to be encouraged to reduce the amount of time they […]
Read MoreTokyo: Ueno Zoo in Tokyo announced this week that there were signs that Panda Shin Shin was pregnant. Share prices for restaurants with outlets around the zoo soared. And then came the happy news: Shin Shin had given birth to not one cub, but two. The twins, whose gender has not yet been determined, were […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Former Interior Minister and Chairman Institute of Research and Reforms (IRR) this week said that situation is worsening in Kabul by every passing day and anti- Ghani groups were inching towards zero mile of Kabul and General Abdul Rashid Dostum had left Kabul.He said that Haqqani group is re-emerging as the strongest one […]
Read MoreDing Gang The G7 summit announced that it will start a “Build Back Better World” global infrastructure plan, aiming to help developing countries and counter the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The G7 countries were all, historically, colonists. The very difference with China over the path of development is: They initially accumulated their capital […]
Read MoreZhao Manfeng The successful launch of the Shenzhou XII spacecraft this week and its docking with Tianhe, the core module of China’s space station, hours later marked a major milestone in the country’s space exploration program.The Shenzhou XII, China’s seventh manned space mission, carried a crew of three astronauts, the first visitors to the core […]
Read MoreMohamed Chebaro The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has led to the near freezing of human existence over the past 18 months, but has failed to push conflicting parties in our world to even take a break. A new UN report has painted another grim picture of the state of our planet, as states and societies everywhere […]
Read MoreSara Al-Mulla Many people look forward to their retirement years, imagining idyllic scenes of family gatherings, travel, hobbies, balancing solitude and socialization, and many other unforgettable experiences one can enjoy after years of dedicated work. The key, however, is to ensure one has sufficient financial security to live out these golden years in comfort. Unfortunately, […]
Read MoreTwo-time T20 World champion Daren Sammy has been added to the Cricket West Indies (CWI) board as an independent non-member director. Sammy was one of three appointments of Independent Directors approved at last Thurday’s CWI Board of Directors’ meeting to serve for the next two years. Sammy joined Trinidadian Attorney Mrs. Debra Coryat-Patton and Jamaican […]
Read MoreNew Zealand’s Devon Conway and South Africa’s Quinton de Kock have been signed as overseas replacements by the Southern Brave for English cricket’s inaugural edition of the Hundred, it was announced this week. The Hampshire-based franchise were in the market for top-order batsmen after Australia’s David Warner and Marcus Stoinis withdrew citing Covid-19 travel complications. […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Italy’s Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarse has said that Italian universities were offering courses in English – a big attraction for the Pakistani students.In an interview, the envoy said previously the Italian universities were teaching in the national language which was a hurdle to draw students from countries like Pakistan. “Given that about […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Kabul Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has sought regional support for Afghanistan as the international forces withdraw from the war-torn country. The NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative told a London panel that the best scenario after the Western Alliance withdraws this summer would be for the Taliban to be “part of […]
Read MoreNewswire Washington: Pakistan is ready to be a partner for peace in Afghanistan with the United States, but will not allow US military bases on its soil, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said in an opinion piece published in a leading American newspaper. “We simply cannot afford this. We have already paid too heavy a […]
Read MoreNewswire Shanghai: A senior Chinese epidemiologist has said the United States should be the priority in the next phase of investigations into the origin of COVID-19 after a study showed the disease could have been circulating there as early as December 2019, state media reported. The study, published this week by the U.S. National Institutes […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari this week called out Prime Minister Imran Khan for attempting to hide the facts of the “poor enemy budget” by silencing the voice of the opposition.He asserted that no matter what tactics the PTI government stooped to, PPP will reveal the truth regarding the Budget 2021-2022 […]
Read MoreMoscow: The Kremlin said this week it was pleased with what it called a positive summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden, singling out a joint statement that reiterated the need to avoid nuclear war as significant. Biden and Putin agreed to launch arms control and cyber-security talks at a […]
Read MoreNewswire QUETTA, June 14: Pakistan-China Technical and Vocational Training Institute with a total cost of Rs 2 billion will becompleted by December 2021 in the port city of Gwadar, Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Kamal Khan announced this week.The project is being built under the multi-billion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The Institute would help fulfilling maritime […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Pakistan has exempted the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)’s enterprises of the Special Economic Zones(SEZs) from the minimum tax for the financial year of 2021-22 – starting on July 1, and onwards.Presenting the national budget in the parliament this week, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said the SEZs were a key projectof the mega […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority chief Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa (retd) said thisweek that private investors would be encouraged for Joint Ventures (JVs) to speed up industrialization under CPEC, aflagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).Bajwa however, added that the maximum focus would be on the industries that could […]
Read MoreA new study found that almost half of the cosmetic products tested in contain potentially harmful chemicals.These chemicals, called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), have been linked in early research to cancer, reproductive harm, and damage to the immune system. PFAS are often used to increase a product’s durability, spreadability, and wear.New research conducted by […]
Read MoreExperts say the United States still faces dangers from the COVID-19 pandemic if the virus is circulating in other parts of the world.One reason is the novel coronavirus can continue to mutate into strains such as the delta variant if it’s unchecked in parts of the globe. Experts note that with airline travel, it’s easier […]
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