UNITED NATIONS: Chinese President Xi Jinping has won applause at the UN headquarters as he called for safeguarding the interests of developing countries in the world and pledged financial, human resources support for underdeveloped nations and global development. “China’s vote in the United Nations will always belong to the developing countries,” Xi told the general debate...
PESHAWAR: One labourer died while another was critically wounded when roof of an under construction house collapsed here on Tuesday. Rescue sources said the incident took place in Rashid Town Gulbahar area of the provincial capital Peshawar where roof of an under construction house suddenly came down when the labourers were busy in routine...
KARACHI: Another case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus surfaced in Karachi on Tuesday, taking toll to four in the metropolis. According to sources, the patient was admitted in hospital on September 23 and is better now whereas strict precautionary measures have also been ensured. Moreover, as many as four Congo patients have surfaced so...
KASHMORE: At least 11 people were injured in an armed clash between two rival groups here on Tuesday. Police said that the clash took place in Badani locality of Kashmore where armed men of two groups which were in old dispute traded fire in which 11 people were critically wounded. Residents of the...
ISLAMABAD: Naveed Akram Cheema has taken oath as Chairman of Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC). President Mamnoon Hussain administered oath to him at a ceremony at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad on Tuesday. The ceremony was attended by members of the FPSC and other high-ranking officials.
NEW YORK: Federal Minister for Finance Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar met Chairman Exim Bank, Fred p. Hochberg here on Monday and briefed him on the positive outlook of Pakistan’s economy which he said has been on a consistent positive trajectory since the current government introduced vital economic reforms two years ago. He told Mr. Hochberg...
ATTOCK: Founder president of Attock Chamber of Commerce (ACCI) Mirza Abdul Rehman has been elected as president of the Chamber in the annual elections. Ayaz Adil has been elected as Senior Vice President while Arshad Mughal has been elected as Vice President of the ACCI. Senator Haji Adeel, Senator Haji Ghulam Ali and others have...
ISLAMABAD: Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Chairman of the Senate Defence Committee told a select audience of the Oxford and Cambridge Society that 36 years after the momentous events of 1979, there were signs that the region where Pakistan is located is finally settling down....
CHUNIAN/OKARA/SHEIKHUPURA: At least five persons including a woman were killed and more than two dozen others injured in separate road accidents here on Tuesday. Rescue sources said that the first accident took place at Changa Manga Road in Chunian area where an over speeding tractor trolley and passenger coaster collided head-on resulting in death...
UNITED NATIONS: Afghanistan’s chief executive Abdullah Abdullah has called for Pakistan to keep its promise to crack down on Islamic extremists blamed for carrying out cross-border attacks and destablilzing the impoverished war-torn country. “We agreed to a paradigm change in our relations and engagement towards peace talks with the Taliban. Events turned out differently after...