Muzaffarabad: Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi of Pakistan TehrIk-e-Insaf (PTI) took oath as new Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir this week.AJK President Sardar Muhammad Masood Khan administered the oath to him at a ceremony. Earlier, PTI s Abdul Qayyum Niazi had been elected as new Prime Minister (PM) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).AJK […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The Foreign Office this week said it was highly hypocritical of India to do away with the key priorities spelled out during the presidency of the United Nations Security Council.The statement of Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri came in response to media queries on the Indian External Affairs Minister’s tweet regarding India’s priorities […]
Read MoreGlobal Times Washington: China’s new ambassador to the US Qin Gang has vowed to bring bilateral relations back on the right track, and make a China-US relationship of mutual respect, equal treatment, win-win cooperation and peaceful coexistence a reality.Qin arrived in the US a little over a month after former Chinese ambassador Cui Tiankai left […]
Read MoreKarachi: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said this week, the general elections could be called any time.Speaking in an event, the PPP Chairman asked his party members to be prepared for such a situation.“Only PPP can save Karachi,” Bilawal said, adding that the party aims to resolve Karachi’s issues, including water shortages […]
Read MoreNewswire New York: Amid deteriorating Afghan security situation, Prime Minister Imran Khan emphasized this week that the best choice was a negotiated political settlement to the long-running conflict in Afghanistan, saying Pakistan would remain helpful in the peace process.“So, the Taliban sit down with the other side and they form an inclusive government — This […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has urged peace in Afghanistan.He said peace in Afghanistan will be beneficial not only for the country for the region. The envoy cited the US, EU, NATO joint statement, released this week, urging halt in fighting in AfghanistanThe countries in their discussion on Afghanistan […]
Read MoreParis: Imagine a world where you could sit on the same couch as a friend who lives thousands of miles away, or conjure up a virtual version of your workplace while at the beach.Welcome to the metaverse: a vision of the future that sounds fantastical, but which tech titans like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: China urges the United States to immediately stop meddling in Hong Kong affairs, which are China’s internal affairs, and the Chinese side will take all measures necessary in accordance with law to defend its sovereignty, security and development interests, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said this week.The spokesperson made the remarks after […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Central Information Secretary Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) Shazia Atta Marri has said that scrapping Pak-Iran gas pipeline project was like enmity with the country’s people.She said former President Asif Ali Zardari introduced great development projects like economic corridor project of Gwadar and Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline during his government. She said the decisions regarding […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: The Delta variant is predominant in the coronavirus cases reported across Pakistan during the fourth wave, Special Assistant to the PM on Health Dr Faisal Sultan said.In an interview, he said that the exact percentage of the variant can’t be determined because that will require “sequencing”. Dr Sultan called the rising infection rate […]
Read MoreShabana Syed – Gwadar Pro Just before American forces withdrew from Afghanistan there were clear indications that a Syrian style hybrid war will be staged in the country through CIA operatives, Al Qaeda linked jihadists and Uyghurs from China’s Xinjiang province, who the CIA has been training since 2000 according to Sibel Edmonds, a former […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has said that peace in Afghanistan was beneficial for the whole world.The envoy said that all the Afghan groups must seize the opportunity and live peacefully together.Ambassador Pontecorvo said NATO will stand with the Afghan people and would be happy to see them coming […]
Read MoreBhimber: Prime Minister Imran Khan this week asked former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his other family members, residing in the United Kingdom, to return home and face trials to prove their honesty as judiciary in the country was fully independent. “Judiciary in the country is fully independent as Imran Khan did not attack courts […]
Read MoreMimi Lau and Catherine Wong Beijing: China is sending a special team to Pakistan to work with local authorities in the ongoing rescue operation and investigation into Wednesday’s deadly shuttle bus blast that killed at least 13 people, after Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for a probe into whether it was the result of a […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has demanded for a joint session of the parliament on the Afghanistan situation and its possible fall out on Pakistan after videos of Afghan Taliban have appeared on social media.PPP Secretary General Nayyar Bukhari said that reports of staff vacating various embassies from Afghanistan and Ashraf Ghani’s own family […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Pakistan and Russia this week signed an agreement of technical cooperation to lay the 1100-kilometre steam gas pipeline from Karachi to Lahore at an estimated cost of $2.5 billion.The agreement was signed by Secretary Petroleum Division Dr Arshad Mahmood and Deputy Director of Russian Energy Ministry Alexander Tolparov. The signing ceremony was attended by […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: Kabul: NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo was busier than usual this week – official work and football romance. The Ambassador whose weekdays and weekends are mostly full of official agenda took out time to watch the Italy-England football final match for European Championship. Luckily for him, his country Italy […]
Read MoreTashkent: Pakistan and Uzbekistan this week agreed to further strengthen their bilateral relations through strategic partnership and enhanced cooperation in the areas of trade, economy, culture, tourism and connectivity for mutual benefit.Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan after holding wide ranging bilateral talks signed Joint Declaration on the Establishment of Strategic […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week urged political parties in the world to shoulder their responsibility for the pursuit of people’s wellbeing and progress of mankind.Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, called on political parties to strengthen cooperation to tackle global challenges […]
Read MoreNewswire Washington: US President Joe Biden this week strongly defended his decision to pull U.S. military forces out of Afghanistan, saying the Afghan people must decide their own future, rather than sacrificing another generation of Americans in an unwinnable war. Speaking in the White House East Room, Biden said the Afghan military has the ability […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said this week only the PPP can chase out the government and after winning the Kashmir elections the Jiyalas will proceed towards Banigala.Addressing a huge public gathering at Abbaspur in connection with the Azad Jammu Kashmir election campaign, he said that some people on television say […]
Read MoreA new study disputes the prevailing hypothesis on why Mercury has a big core relative to its mantle (the layer between a planet’s core and crust). For decades, scientists argued that hit-and-run collisions with other bodies during the formation of our solar system blew away much of Mercury’s rocky mantle and left the big, dense, […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has welcomed the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decision to include the western city of Herat among world cultural heritage sites. “Excellent news and long overdue recognition of a beautiful city and an exceptional heritage site,” he said in a tweet.Earlier, […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Pakistan said this week that during a recent meeting between Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General and the Indian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, the former had underscored the organization’s principled position on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said that during a recent meeting between Organization of […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: The Communist Party of China (CPC) on this week celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding, as its top leader declared the achievement of a milestone development goal and announced that the Chinese nation is “advancing with unstoppable momentum toward rejuvenation.”Addressing a grand gathering at the iconic Tian’anmen Square, where CPC […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said this week that the whole budget session was an insult to the people.Addressing a press conference at the Zardari House here, he said due to the role of the government and the attitude of the speaker, what should have happened did not happen. “We […]
Read MoreMoscow: The incident with the British guided missile destroyer Defender off Crimea was a clear provocation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his annual Q&A session this week. “This is, of course, a provocation, which is absolutely clear. What did these provocateurs want to show and what goals did they seek to achieve? First of […]
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 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 Kabul: NATO Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has said that NATO stood at the back of the Afghan people. He reiterated its pledge to support Afghanistan and the political resolution of hostilities in the country.Ambassador Pontecorvo said he had held fruitful discussions with the Afghan leaders and was optimistic about peace.“We […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan this week directed to make preparations for biggest plantation drive during this year’s monsoon season and said that agricultural lands as well as those reserved for forests should not be used for construction in any way.He gave this direction while presiding over a meeting of the National Coordination Committee for […]
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