Newswire 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 MoreStaff Writer Kabul: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to pace up their joint efforts to reduce recent spate of terrorist incidents in Afghanistan through close coordination and intelligence sharing. Prime Minister Imran Khan and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in a joint press stake-out at ARG Presidential Palace this week reaffirmed their commitment towards taking urgent […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Gilgit: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has claimed that the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government will fall by January. In a media interaction here this week, he said that the people of Gilgit-Baltistan were supporting the PPP for the last three generations. “The people of GB have shown trust on the […]
Read MoreIslamabad: A type of arthritis drug may reduce the risk of dying for elderly patients with COVID-19. This is the finding of a new international study, led by scientists at Imperial College London and the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, published in the journal Science Advances. In the early-stage study, 83 patients, with a median age of […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The adage ‘you are what you eat’ has been around for years. Now, important new research provides another reason to be careful with your calories. Neuroscientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have shown that calorie-reduced diets stop the normal rise and fall in activity levels of close to 900 different genes linked to aging […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Individuals who consume chili pepper may live longer and may have a significantly reduced risk of dying from cardiovascular disease or cancer, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2020. Previous studies have found eating chili pepper has an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer and blood-glucose regulating effect due to capsaicin, […]
Read MoreIslamabad: What might look like a colossal jet shooting away from a galaxy turns out to be an illusion. New data from the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) reveal that two galaxies, one lying behind the other, have been masquerading as one. In a new image highlighting the chance alignment, […]
Read MoreIslamabad: How hot is the Universe today? How hot was it before? A new study by an international team of researchers, including members of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), suggests that the mean temperature of gas in large structures of the Universe has increased about 3 times […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Mars once had oceans but is now bone-dry, leaving many to wonder how the water was lost. University of Arizona researchers have discovered a surprisingly large amount of water in the upper atmosphere of Mars, where it is rapidly destroyed, explaining part of this Martian mystery. Shane Stone, a graduate student in the UArizona […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: British High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr Christian Turner has said his goal since arriving in Pakistan had been to welcome the England Cricket Team back.“16 years of waiting is over, and I am delighted that England will play here in 2021,” he said in a video message.He added: “A lot of hard work […]
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 MoreTokyo: The requirement by many of Japan’s firms that job applicants indicate their gender and even provide a photo on resumes has left the country out of step with the international norm, but that may be about to change.An internet petition campaign stressing that such practices can lead to discrimination has collected over 10,000 signatures, […]
Read MoreTokyo: The Japanese government will financially support shops and restaurants that are asked to shorten their business hours in order to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said.Suga’s pledge came as Hokkaido officials agreed to ask residents of Sapporo to refrain from nonessential outings following back-to-back days of record infections […]
Read MoreNewswire Beijing: A special Investiture Ceremony was held at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on 19th November, 2020. Ambassador Moin ul Haque, on behalf of the President of Pakistan, conferred civil award of Pakistan upon “Hilal-i-Pakistan” Song Tao in recognition of his outstanding services towards Pakistan and strengthening of Pakistan-China relations. Song Tao is the Minister of […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Nanjing: President Xi Jinping has underlined the importance of developing the Yangtze River Economic Belt to promote the country’s high-quality socioeconomic development as proposed in a blueprint adopted by a key party meeting recently.Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Beijing: Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, which had the country’s largest remaining poor population at the end of last year, has eradicated absolute poverty, officials said. The last nine counties in the province were delisted from the poverty-stricken county list, which meant all its 88 poverty-stricken counties have shaken off poverty, said Huang Yunbo, […]
Read MoreToshifumi Kitamura Tokyo: Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather will return to the ring with a fight in Tokyo in February 2021, organizers said, but who he will fight and under what rules was left unclear. The retired ex-champ had already dropped hints about the fight, which follows a widely ridiculed 2018 “exhibition” match against a Japanese […]
Read MoreLausanne: Australian swimmer Shayna Jack was banned for two years on Monday for accidental doping, with her sanction expiring days before the start of the Tokyo Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judge decided “Jack did not intentionally ingest ligandrol and considered that she had discharged her onus of proving that the […]
Read MoreLahore: Pakistan cricket team’s bowling coach, commentator, former pacer Waqar Younis celebrated his 49th birthday on November 16 and received love and prayers from friends and fans on social media.Younis began his cricketing career in 1987/88 by playing for several first-class cricket clubs. His international career kicked off in 1989 till 2003. Being a talented […]
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 MoreIslamabad: Amidst COVID-19 pandemic threats and multiple natural hazards, shocks and pests attacks across the borders this year, “World Food Day” is a great challenge for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to fulfill the objectives to defeat hunger completely by 2030, writes FAO representative, Mina Dowlatchahi. She wrote, “World Food Day 2020 marks the […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Italian Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese called on Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi in Islamabad this week and exchanged views on bilateral relations. According to the spokesperson of the Pakistan Navy, Ambassador Andreas Ferrarese visited the National Headquarters Islamabad and called on Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad […]
Read MoreNewswire Faisalabad: Italy’s Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese has predicted that Pak-Italy bilateral trade will go up from $ 1.7 billion to its full potential of $4 billion. Addressing a meeting along with his spouse at the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) this week, the envoy said he was posted about nine months […]
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 MoreIslamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has rejected Prime Minister Imran Khan’s offer to the opposition to discuss electoral reforms.Parliamentary Leader of the PPP in the Senate Sherry Rehman said the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government should first accept responsibility for rigging elections in Gilgit Baltistan and then talk about reforms. “This sudden interest in electoral reforms […]
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 MoreMuhammad Asif Noor While the global north was gearing up for the mother of all elections in the US, which have strong political and strategic ripple effects, the global south was finalizing in a peaceful and purposeful manner wherein the fifth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was […]
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 MoreLondon: This week, people around the world got a pleasant surprise when Pfizer on Monday announced that its vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis?. Within hours of the announcement, several countries like UK, India, […]
Read MoreKochi: On the south side of the island of Shikoku, framed by two enormous peninsulas, Kochi is one of Japan’s least-visited prefectures – at least by foreigners. It’s a popular destination for Japanese Shingon Buddhists looking to worship at the auspicious 88 Temples of Shikoku, the country’s most famous pilgrimage trail. But it’s also popular […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: The Embassy of Japan, in line with the PM Imran Khan’s initiative, ’Clean-Green Pakistan’, donated 20 Jasmine trees to Japanese Park in Islamabad. Matsuda Kuninori, Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, along with the State Minister for Climate Change, Zartaj Gul planted Jasmine trees at the Park during a tree plantation ceremony. Naveed Tareen […]
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