Day: January 9, 2022

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FM arrives in Bucharest in first phase of 3-day visit to Romania, Spain

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has reached Bucharest in the first phase of his three day visit to Romania and Spain.

During the first-leg of his visit, he will stay in Bucharest till tomorrow at the invitation of Romania’s Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi will hold wide-ranging consultations with the Romanian Foreign Minister and other dignitaries on regional and international issues.

He will subsequently visit Spain tomorrow on the invitation of Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares Bueno and will stay there till Wednesday.

Besides meeting with his Spanish counterpart, Shah Mahmood Qureshi will hold talks with other ministers and members of the Spanish Parliament.

The Foreign Minister’s visit to Romania and Spain will give further impetus to the growing cooperation with these two friendly countries in the context of the European Union.

Source: Radio Pakistan

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CM Punjab forms seven member committee for inquiry into Murree incident

Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar has announced to form a seven member committee for inquiry into the tragic incident of Murree.

Chairing a high level meeting at Gharial in Murree he announced that acommittee headed by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Punjab will submit its report in seven days. Action will be taken aginst those responsbile for the negligence in light of the inquiry committe’s report. He also announced to provide compensdation to the families of those tourists who died in the in the tragic incident.

Cheif Minister expressed his displeasure over enrty of more vehicles than capcity in Murree.

Source: Radio Pakistan

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President urges youth to excel in IT field

President Dr Arif Alvi has stressed upon the youth to avail the existing and innovative opportunities in the realm of information and technology by unfolding huge prospects for progress and prosperity.

The president was addressing an international webinar titled ‘current entrepreneurship aspect in digital world’ arranged by the Joint Cultural Society for Communities Collaboration.

He said that huge, exponential and quantum changes are taking place in the information and technological field throughout the globe which heralded bright prospects for the youth of Pakistan to excel.

The president said the present government has developed the human resource for the technological world craving for trained youth. Through the Digi skills initiative, about 1.6 million people moved to the next stage out of a total 2.4 million who had applied for the programme.

He urged the people to learn developing of the software and smart apps as the global virtual capital or the brick-and-mortar businesses were also in search of investing in the startups and smart apps developers.

He said the young population of Pakistan could access the global information world after developing skills in the relevant field. There are billions of opportunities for developing the smart apps. Pakistan is at the jumping board. Pakistan is now changing. The world is the market for IT gadgets.

He expressed the confidence that youth of the country would prepare themselves for the rapid IT changes taking place around the world and would bring laurels to the country, besides getting earning opportunities.

The webinar was arranged to discuss the visions and trends in the digital world and the role of youth considering the latest changes in the artificial Intelligence. People around the world attended the webinar.

Source: Radio Pakistan

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All main roads in Murree cleared for all types of movement

All main roads in Murree have been cleared for all types of movement.

According to the ISPR, after clearance of main roads, Army engineers are now focusing on link roads.

Relief camps, medical facilities are fully operating and Army transport is plying for moving of stranded tourists to Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

Meanwhile, operations for the evacuation of snow storm stranded tourists in Murree and Galyat are in full swing by Pakistan Air Force.

Spokesperson of the PAF said that during the rescue operations, PAF personnel have shifted more than 100 persons, including women and children at PAF Bases Kalabagh and Lower Topa. Shelter, food and medical facilities are being provided round the clock to the affected families by the rescue teams of PAF.

Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid says ban on entrance to Murree and Galiat from Islamabad will remain enforced for next twenty four hours.

In a statement on Sunday, he said that only residents of Murree and adjoining areas will be allowed to enter in these areas.

He said the government is constantly reviewing the situation of Murree and Galiat and decision of entry for tourists will be taken keeping in view the situation.

Source: Radio Pakistan

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FBR, SECP and Commerce Ministry to Work on Increasing E-Commerce Sales Locally and Abroad

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), and Ministry of Commerce plan to jointly launch a drive for facilitation of companies expanding their online sales inland and abroad.

Sources from FBR informed ProPakistani that the initiative is driven by the growing need for increasing the volumes of turnovers both for enhancing the GST-covered sales and to help the banking and public finance systems grab larger amounts in foreign exchange.

The tax machinery has already begun notifying rules for monitoring the online sales while the SECP has been beefing up the registration mechanism with extended facilitation to the selling companies. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently initiated a campaign to facilitate the selling companies by acquiring inputs from the banking system on methods and volumes of credit extension at an ever greater scale.

On the other hand, given these developments, companies like Alibaba have been quick to approach Pakistani companies offering goods for online sales produced to meet international standards. It is pertinent to note that last month, Alibaba held a summit to bring Pakistani sellers onboard to the leading global B2B e-commerce marketplace. The summit was intended to ‘Unlock Business Growth Code’ in Sialkot to bring Pakistani sellers aboard its platform. Pakistani sellers appear to grab this opportunity to access over 200 markets globally.

Representatives of Alibaba, the local trade associations, senior government officials, and a number of successful online sellers are developing a liaison for coming together to assess the enhanced potential of Pakistan to offer cheaper and quality products to the global online buyers via international companies. These developments indicate that Pakistan is expected to witness an annual growth of 28 percent in e-commerce in the next 3 years.

Efforts launched by the FBR, the Commerce Ministry, and the SBP are set to accelerate Pakistani products’ enhanced sales via a global platform.

Source: Pro Pakistani

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Pak-China Friendship Hospital in Gwadar under CPEC to be completed by Dec 2022

Pak-China friendship hospital Gwadar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Project at a cost of 100 million US dollar will be completed in Dec 2022.

Chinese government is financing the Pak-China Friendship Hospital being established over 68 acres of land which would be equipped with a modern medical facility for the people of the port city of Gwadar.

The project has been proposed for implementation of Phase-II of 50-beds hospital to be constructed under the Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) Business Plan.

The Hospital would create employment opportunities for the local masses as a total of 40 local jobs would be generated whereas civil work has started by November 2020 which was expected to be completed by December 2022.

According to official sources, one out of six medical blocks (each 50 bedded) along with 20 percent of the residential blocks were completed.

Under the proposed project remaining medical blocks, nursing and paramedical institutes, medical college, central laboratory, and other allied facilities would be constructed with a supply of medical equipment and machinery.

The estimated project cost to be executed jointly by the executing company and sponsors including GDA, financing Chinese Government Grant Supervising Agency, Planning and Development Department, Government of Balochistan, and Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives.

Source: Radio Pakistan