Islamabad: The Saudi Fund for Development has announced a “generous directive” to deposit an amount of US three billion dollars with the State Bank of Pakistan to help the government support its foreign currency reserves and support it in facing the repercussions of the Corona pandemic. According to the news by the Saudi Press Agency […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has highlighted the importance for China to promote the sound development of the digital economy, saying that it is a choice with strategic significance in order to seize the new opportunities from the new round of the scientific and […]
Read MoreKarachi: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari this week alleged that Prime Minister Imran Khan was trying to turn all institutions of the country into the PTI’s Tiger Force. “It [PTI government] has not brought a change, but destruction,” he said while addressing a PPP rally at Karachi’s Bagh-e-Jinnah organised to commemorate those […]
Read MoreNewswire Moscow: Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Ambassador Muhammad Sadiq said this week that peace in Afghanistan will benefit the entire region in terms of stability, secure borders, enhanced connectivity, return of refugees and countering of terrorism. He was speaking at the third meeting of the Moscow Format held in Moscow. The meeting was hosted […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Beijing: The UN Sustainable Transport Conference was held in Beijing this week, with government leaders, industry experts, and civil society groups charting a sustainable pathway forward. “President Xi Jinping announced that China will establish the China International Sustainable Transport Innovation and Knowledge Center, which will give a strong boost to the development of […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Gwadar: Developing the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) hub, Gwadar city, is Balochistan provincial government’s top priority, Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan said this week. In a statement, after arriving in the port city, CM remarked that Gwadar’s development was the key to move forward. Jam Kamal Khan later visited Sunset Park along with […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Islamabad: “China is a torchbearer in poverty alleviation and Pakistan needs to follow in footsteps to drag the poor out of the financial quagmire,” a senior aide of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on poverty, Senator Dr. Sania Nishar, Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) Imran Khan on Poverty Alleviation and Social […]
Read MoreThe planet Venus can be seen as the Earth’s evil twin. At first sight, it is of comparable mass and size as our home planet, similarly consists mostly of rocky material, holds some water and has an atmosphere. Yet, a closer look reveals striking differences between them: Venus’ thick CO2 atmosphere, extreme surface temperature and […]
Read MoreAstronomers have discovered unusual signals coming from the direction of the Milky Way’s centre. The radio waves fit no currently understood pattern of variable radio source and could suggest a new class of stellar object. “The strangest property of this new signal is that it is has a very high polarisation. This means its light […]
Read MoreThe ability to detect and react to the smell of a potential threat is a precondition of our and other mammals’ survival. Using a novel technique, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have been able to study what happens in the brain when the central nervous system judges a smell to represent danger. The study, […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Outgoing Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan Kuninori Matsuda held two separate meetings with Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Dr Arif Alvi this week. During the meeting in the Prime Minister’s House, Prime Minister Imran Khan stressed that the world community must remain positively engaged with the new Afghan administration, provide urgently-needed humanitarian […]
Read MoreNewswire Tokyo: Japan and France plan to hold security talks involving their foreign and defense ministers within the year, the French government said this week. Sources knowledgeable about the matter said the so-called two-plus-two talks will be held in the Japanese capital, likely between late November and early December. France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Head of Communication Pakistan Network, Fouzia Younis this week launched the second phase of the Chevening mentoring scheme at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). The scheme is designed to support women and minorities who are lawyers and entrepreneurs to enhance their skills, knowledge and work performance. The British High Commission […]
Read MoreRoger Harrabin London: Another big push towards electric vehicles is being made in the UK government’s latest strategy to make the great shift to a virtually zero-carbon economy. Ministers are investing £620m in grants for electric vehicles and street charging points. Car makers will be mandated to sell a proportion of clean vehicles each year. […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Ambassador of Italy to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese this week appreciated the role played by all the partner institutions in holding the ASviS 2021 on the subject of biodiversity and circular economy in Pakistan. Speaking at the Sustainable Development Festival – ASviS 2021 gathering held at the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS), he expressed […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Former Interior Minister and PPP senior leader Senator A. Rehman Malik has paid rich tribute to the martyrs of Karsaz and their families. He said that October 18 is a painful and unforgettable day in the history of Pakistan and the pain of the tragedy shall remain in our hearts forever. He said […]
Read MoreAndrew Gastelum On the island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon, among its color-coded houses and sleepy canals, magicians bend fire and freeze flames. There, artisans pull molten glass like jelly, curling it to their will into something as grand as a chandelier or as precise as a chess piece. For centuries since 800 A.C.E., […]
Read MoreAndrew Reid Ireland allrounder Curtis Campher has joined one of the most exclusive clubs in cricket history after taking a double hat-trick in his his side’s Twenty20 World Cup win against the Netherlands. Campher became just the third player ever to take four wickets in four balls in a T20 international – matching the feat […]
Read MoreHu Xijin The three taikonauts onboard the Shenzhou-13 spaceship entered China’s space station core module Tianhe on Saturday. The entire nation was watching and felt a shared sense of national pride. One after another, the country’s major achievements are reshaping the feeling of being a Chinese. The latest off-world success is another showcase of China’s […]
Read MoreHu Xijin Beijing has proposed to suspend the city’s light show and shortened the time of the city’s landscape lighting at night. I believe it makes sense for Beijing to launch this initiative now, whether this is because of Beijing’s power supply shortage or a response to the power shortages in Northeast China and other […]
Read MoreChris Doyle No country can afford to wait until the global pandemic has ended before determining the proper lessons to be learned. The stakes are too high. That is why a UK parliamentary select committee report into the coronavirus published on Oct. 12 received so much attention. The findings are stark, describing it as Britain’s […]
Read MoreAndrew Hammond While much on the agenda this week in Brussels for the summit of Europe’s 27 government leaders will be familiar, there is a historic power shift underway that could bring about significant change in 2022. The summit will probably be the last for outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her close collaborator, French President […]
Read MoreNewswire Canberra: Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Australia Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri this week stressed the need for clearing misconceptions about Islam, the religion which promotes peace and harmony for mankind. In his keynote address at the Seerat-un-Nabi Peace Conference organized by Pehchan Media Network, the High Commissioner called for collective efforts to fight the emerging threat […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Atiq always Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) this week organized a “Seerah of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) Zoom Conference Ustad Tafseer Prof. Dr. Shaykh Muhammad Yaqoob Al-Dahlawi [Esteemed Teacher of Masjid Nabwi, Madina Munawara] delivered a special lecture live through Madina Manawra, on ‘Seerah of Prophet Muhammad (SAW)’. The NTC management, under the supervision of Managing […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Ambassador of Sweden to Pakistan, Henrik Parson this week urged the need to meet the environmental challenges by making changes in various areas, including business strategy, for an environmentally friendly and conducive life. The world will face environmental challenges by reviewing all plans and policies, including business and industry, for an environmentally friendly […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: NATO’s Senior Civil Representative Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo arrived in Islamabad this week on an Afghanistan peace mission. This envoy met army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood. In his meeting with General Bajwa, matters related to mutual interest, peace, and stability in the region and Afghanistan situation were discussed, […]
Read MoreNewswire Washington: US President Joe Biden plans to nominate career diplomat Donald Armin Blome as his next ambassador to Pakistan, the White House announced this week. Blome’s appointment comes three years after Ambassador David Hale completed his three-year term in Islamabad and left for Washington to take over as under-secretary of state for political affairs. […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s special representative Wang Yi this week said the G20 should give full play to its own advantages to contribute to the peace, stability, prosperity and development of Afghanistan and the region. Wang, also Chinese state councilor and foreign minister, made the remarks via video link at an […]
Read MoreNewswire Larkana: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari this week invited all estranged old guards and other leaders to return to the party fold and join in the ongoing struggle for democracy. “I invite all those who had been part of PPP during the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto to […]
Read MoreMoscow: Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov at a meeting with the visiting US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland invited the United States to lift all restrictions from the operation of Russian and US foreign missions in a reciprocal move. “The current condition and prospects of bilateral relations were discussed. Special […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Multan: Pakistan aims to increase at least 50% production of cotton next year with the help of China as part of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)’s second phase which focuses on agriculture, officials said. A high-level meeting of the Cotton Crop Assessment Committee of the Ministry of National Food Security was held in Islamabad […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Minister for Economic Affairs Omer Ayub Khan will deliver opening remarks at the upcoming meeting of Pakistan-China Joint Economic Cooperation (JEC). In a meeting with Chinese Ambassador Nong Rong here, the minister accepted the invitation to open the meeting on October 29. The Chinese ambassador also informed the Minister that Chinese-side was […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Islamabad: Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong has said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) power project in Sindh province was making steady progress. The envoy appreciated the work on the Thar Energy Limited (TEL) Power Plant under CPEC. “Good news that the TEL 330MW Power Plant Project in Thar Block-II is […]
Read MoreA lunar probe launched by the Chinese space agency recently brought back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. Now an international team of scientists — including an expert from Washington University in St. Louis — has determined the age of these moon rocks at close […]
Read MoreThe dwarf planet Vesta is helping scientists better understand the earliest era in the formation of our solar system. Two recent papers involving scientists from the University of California, Davis, use data from meteorites derived from Vesta to resolve the “missing mantle problem” and push back our knowledge of the solar system to just a […]
Read MoreThe experience of a fruit fly dying from cancer may seem worlds away from that of a human with a life-threatening tumor, yet University of California, Berkeley, researchers are finding commonalities between the two that could lead to ways to prolong the lives of cancer patients. Fruit fly research is already pointing to a new […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Italy’s Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese said this week that the business communities of Pakistan and Italy needed to be brought closer for enhancing bilateral trade and investment cooperation. There are vast opportunities for bilateral trade and investment cooperation between Pakistan and Italy from which businessmen and traders of both the countries could […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Former Interior Minister Senator Rehman Malik has said that the reason behind US President Joi Biden’s anger with Pakistan is not Afghanistan but US Presidential campaign. He said that Pakistani embassy in the United States was used for Trump’s election campaign, which has angered Biden. He revealed in an interview with a news […]
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