London: The United Kingdom (UK) has pledged £155 million aid to support peace and stability in Afghanistan.A statement issued by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) issued here said the UK aid pledge for 2021 would help reduce child mortality rates and improve access to education and vital infrastructure. The statement added the […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Italy’s Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese and his wife Albana Ferrarese on Thursday hosted a lavish lunch party for the Italian and Pakistani friends here.Italian cuisine has come around to be one of the most popular cuisines across the world. Countless bistros and pizzerias around the globe feature Italian dishes on their menus. […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO’s senior civilian representative Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has said that the Afghan peace process must uphold women’s rights to guarantee a lasting resolution to four decades of war. “For peace to be sustainable, it must safeguard the rights of women and minority groups, and uphold the rule of law. The voices of Afghan […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Managing Director National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) Viqar Rashid Khan has said that around 0.8 million attempts of cyber-attacks on internet consumers are successfully countered every day in Pakistan. In an interview, he said NTC successfully countered 250 million cyber-attacks mainly from Israel and India.“Due to deadly virus, it is dangerous and difficult to hold […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: It has been nearly a year since the first coronavirus case was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December.In recent weeks, there has been a lot of mention of countries entering a second or third wave. While there is no strict scientific definition to characterise a disease’s wave, plotting current outbreaks […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The UK minister responsible for visas and immigration has encouraged even more students from Pakistan to choose the UK as a place to study as the International Students Day was marked on November 17. Kevin Foster MP, Minister for Future Borders and Immigration, used the annual celebration of international students to make clear the […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator A. Rehman Malik has said that Kashmiris have the right of getting United Nations Security Council resolutions implemented.Addressing a group of law students from London, he stated that after Azerbaijan’s forceful retrieval of their occupied areas, it was clear that the UNSC resolutions can only be implemented […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has said that NATO and the European Union were working together to establish lasting peace and “long-term stability” in Afghanistan Ambassador Pontecorvo said Pakistan will benefit much from Afghan peace process as the rest of the regional states. “Pakistan has been recognized… actually by […]
Read MoreZafaruddin Mahmood Recently I had been reading in the western media negative stories and reports about Xinjiang. These are repeated by media in other countries without verifying the facts. Unfortunately, most of the commentators are looking at China/Xinjiang through the eyes of the western media which at times is biased for one reason or the […]
Read MoreDr Javed Ali Kalhoro The recent US election results are quite surprising. The world, especially Pakistan, was conjecturing if Donald Trump is re-elected, the ongoing peace process in Afghanistan may reach its finale. The Pakistan Embassy in Washington D.C. also predicted that Mr Trump is going to continue with his position in the presidential office. […]
Read MoreAlistair Burt Assessments of what the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris team might bring to US foreign policy are now well underway. Conventional analysis has much to commend it, and European capitals will endorse that. They will welcome a return to civility in discourse. If there are disagreements over policies, as will always be the case, they […]
Read MoreDr Theodore karasik The announcement by pharmaceutical company Pfizer that trials of its coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine could be more than 90 percent effective generated plenty of excitement this week. While this in itself does not guarantee delivery of a fully tested and effective vaccine, it nevertheless offers hope for Americans desperate for the pandemic to […]
Read MoreZamir Ahmed Awan – People’s Daily The 20th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held a video meeting on November 10. The conference was chaired by President Putin as current Chair of SCO for the year 2019-20. All the member states took an active part, and President […]
Read MoreCornelia Meyer As the saying goes, breaking up is hard to do. This also holds true for the divorce between the UK and the EU. If things were not complicated enough in ending a 45-year partnership, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and a recession not seen in a lifetime have certainly made matters worse. In 2019, […]
Read MoreWang Wen – Global Times On the night when all US media declared the victory of Joe Biden as the new US president, I invited scholars from China, the US, Europe and Latin America to collaborate with the No Cold War campaign to a seminar themed “the Future of China-US relations.” The initiative of “No […]
Read MoreIslamabad: There are a lot of rich people among the ruling party, a detailed report on the financial assets of National Assembly members, including Prime Minister Imran Khan revealed. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) released the report. According to the details, the total value of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s assets stand at Rs 80.6 […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has said that the peace agreement between the US and the Taliban does not mean handover of Afghanistan to the Taliban.Speaking at webinar on “NATO and Afghanistan Peace Process” organized by the Conservative Friends of Afghanistan, he said: “We don’t think that the Taliban […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars. Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system. Mars’ gravity is […]
Read MoreBeijing: China’s new deep-sea manned submersible Fendouzhe, or Striver, set a national diving record of 10,909 meters last week in the Challenger Deep, a 11,000-meter chasm located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, according to China Central Television. The submersible first broke the 10,000-meter milestone by descending to 10,058 […]
Read MoreJackie Dunham Toronto: Days after the US election was called, President Donald Trump still refuses to concede to his Democratic rival Joe Biden as he holds out hope the election results might still go his way.And while Biden and his team are preparing for their move to the White House, Trump is still in power […]
Read MoreNewswire Washington: America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, turning at a time of national crisis to a man whose character was forged by aching personal tragedy and who is pledging to restore calm and truth after Donald Trump’s exhausting and manic single term. In a victory speech Saturday night in his […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: New Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong is already a celebrity in the country just hours after presenting credentials to President Arif Alvi. As the envoy met President Alvi last week, the Chinese embassy in Pakistan announced the Ambassador had taken to Twitter to remain in contact with the Pakistanis on the […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: New DNA findings support evidence that a group of extinct, ancient relatives of modern humans continuously occupied a karst cave in Gansu province tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that could have an important effect on the story of early human development. The new DNA evidence came from layers […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: More than 1.57 million Chinese applicants are qualified to take the 2021 civil servant examination, said the State Administration of Civil Service.According to the administration, China plans to recruit 25,700 civil servants to work for 79 central government agencies and 23 institutions directly under them in 2021. Applicants will need to […]
Read MoreTahir Pervez Gondal Rawalpindi: Pakistan being the melting pot of various civilizations has different shades and colors taken from the rich cultural heritage of Gandhara, Indus, Mehrgarh, Arabs, Afghans, Mongols, Moguls, Persians, Turks and British spanning over thousands of years. The climatic conditions and different geographical regions from sea coast to deserts, plains to snow […]
Read MoreNong Rong I am honored to be the 18th Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. A few days ago, I departed from Beijing, flew over the towering Karakorum Mountains and arrived in the beautiful city of Islamabad with joy. Although this is my first visit […]
Read MoreAbdul Basit Addressing an election rally in Gilgit on November 1 Prime Minister Imran Khan officially declared his government’s decision to give Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) the status of a province of Pakistan on a provisional basis. This, according to him, was being done in tune with the aspirations of the people of GB and the status […]
Read MoreWang Wen – Global Times In the past year, I have been honored to be employed as a consultant of the 14th Five-Year Plan by two ministries and a western province. I have deeply felt that it is difficult and complex for China, a global power, to formulate its five-year plan, and that the 14th […]
Read MoreAlistair Burt While alternately fascinating or appalling — and nothing illustrates this more than the nail-biting presidential election — there is always a risk that the US is ultimately distracting, giving the rest of the world an excuse either not to do things or to delay matters that need our attention and action. Migration is […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo, NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, held talks with Afghanistan reconciliation talks leader Abdullah Abdullah last week as part of the peace efforts. Abdullah later tweeted: “Pleased to meet HE Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo @pontecorvoste, @NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in AFG @NATOscr. We exchanged views on the #AfghanPeaceProcess, the talks in […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator Rehman Malik has written a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan, advising him for moving the matter of US-India Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) in the United Nations. In his letter, Senator A. Rehman Malik urges the Prime Minister Imran Khan “in the national interest, […]
Read MoreMoscow: The issue of the US intention to extract mineral resources on the Moon will be discussed at the 75th session of the UN General Assembly at Russia’s request, the State Space Corporation Roscosmos said.“Yes, it (Roscosmos) is planning to,” the space agency said, responding to a question about Russia’s plans to raise this issue […]
Read MoreElizabeth Buchanan Russia’s Arctic strategy is completed, for now, with the long-awaited release of the “Strategy for the Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation and National Security for the Period up to 2035.”Russia’s National Security Council flagged the drafting of the Strategy for Development back in February. It sits with the State […]
Read MoreNewswire Rome: A sharp rise in demand for homes in southern Italy has upended previous property market trends, the latest statistics show.Italy’s domestic property market has long had two major splits – city and country, and north and south. Unsurprisingly, prices in and around northern cities such as Milan tend to be among the highest […]
Read MoreS. Ali Islamabad, October 21: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has bolstered the economic activity in Pakistan as the multi-billion-dollar project is creating jobs, developing underdeveloped areas and connecting the whole region, senior government officials said.To government officials engaged with the CPEC told Covert that the CPEC had stimulated Pakistan’s economy and it was moving upwards […]
Read MoreWang Wen – Global Times Recently, I went back to Lanzhou, capital of Northwest China’s Gansu Province, where I studied years ago as a graduate, to give lectures, and I found the city to be breathtakingly beautiful. It is located at the center of China’s geographical map with the Yellow River passing through it. One […]
Read MoreWang Wen – Global Times US President Donald Trump said he had approved “in concept” a deal in which Oracle and Walmart would partner with TikTok in the US. This means his previous suppression of TikTok has failed. It also means that after Huawei, another Chinese company going global has wisely been able to resolve […]
Read MoreThe Week of the Italian Language in the World Newswire Islamabad: The Week of the Italian Language in the World is an event promoted yearly by the cultural and diplomatic network in the third week of October.It focuses on a theme that acts as the leitmotif of a vast cultural programme to promote the diffusion […]
Read MoreNewswire Beijing: China has urged U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to respect facts and stop fabricating all sorts of lies about China.“Otherwise, he will only further damage his own credibility, and undermine the US national image and interests,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said.Zhao made the remarks at a regular press conference when […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has warned that violence will ruin the peace process.The envoy raised his grave concerns about the fresh wave of violence in Afghanistan, particularly the attack in Helmand.“The continuation of these attacks will impact the Doha peace process,” he said. The NATO envoy said that […]
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