ISLAMABAD: A high level meeting, chaired by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi here on Wednesday reviewed arrangements for holding the Extraordinary Session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers (FMs) in Islamabad on Sunday. Expressing satisfaction over the arrangements, the Foreign Minister directed to further improve them. Speaking on the occasion, […]
ISLAMABAD: China will continue to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan to help the Afghan people overcome the current difficulties. According to a Radio Pakistan report, this was stated by the Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin during his regular news briefing in Beijing. He said China has been providing support within its capacity to […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information Technology (IT) Amin ul Haque has said that IT export target of 3.5 billion dollars has been set for the current fiscal year. Addressing an event here on Wednesday regarding provision of high-speed mobile broadband services on Motorway three and five, he said the government is extending facilities to the IT […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhary Fawad Hussain has said that nine point six million families and more than ten thousand retail stores have so far been registered under Prime Minister’s Rashan Discount Program. In a tweet on Wednesday, he said this number is steadily increasing. He said twenty million families will get thirty […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Privatization, Mohammed Mian Soomro, chaired a privatization progress review meeting in the Ministry today. Federal Secretary Privatization and other senior officials of the Ministry and Privatization Commission attended the meeting. Federal Minister was briefed about the progress regarding ongoing privatization program including Jinnah Convention Center (JCC), House Building Finance Corporation Limited […]
ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has said the government will ensure transparency and quality in the projects related to the development of health centres and hospitals in remote areas. He was chairing a high-level meeting to review the progress of development projects of the health sector in Lahore on Wednesday. The Chief Minister […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to close illegal campuses of the private universities. A three-member bench of the apex court heard the case pertaining to the non-issuance of degrees to the students from the private universities’ illegal campuses. The bench ordered the HEC to formulate a procedure to […]
ISLAMABAD: The Australian High Commission and the Center for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) organized online training workshops for media professionals on gender-sensitive reporting on violence against women. This is the second year running that the Australian High Commission has supported these training workshops with CEJ. This is closely tied to the international campaign 16 Days […]
