Thursday, October 19th, 2017
Pak, French researchers to enhance scientific, technological cooperation
ISLAMABAD, OCT 18 (DNA) – The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has invited research proposals for mobility grant from faculty members of public and HEC-approved private universities in Pakistan for research funding under the Pak-French PERIDOT research programme. PERIDOT is a Pak-French Hubert Curien Partnership (PHC) which had been providing opportunities to researchers from both the countries to interact with each other for joint research activities. The HEC Research and Development Division Assistant Director Rehan Jamil said that the programme was being implemented by the HEC in Pakistan, and the Ministry ofRead More
President Mamnoon Hussain aspires to have strong relations with Saudi Arabia
ISLAMABAD, OCT 19 (DNA) – President Mamnoon Hussain has said that relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is getting stronger and deepen with each passing day. He mentioned this during the meeting with Ambassador of Saudi Arabia, Nawaf Saeed Ahmad Almalki at Aiwan-e-Sadr, on Thursday. Both countries have strong historical, religious and cultural relationships since the beginning.
Tillerson to visit Pakistan as well as India: senior US official
WASHINGTON DC, OCT 19 (DNA) – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Islamabad next week during an Asian trip that will also take him to India, a senior official at the US State Department said on Wednesday. President Donald Trump thanks Pakistan for ‘doing more’ As part of a South Asia strategy unveiled by Trump in August, Tillerson is expected to press Islamabad, which denies aiding the Taliban, to take stronger steps against militants and allied groups and intensify efforts to pressure them to agree to peace talksRead More
Maryam Nawaz deplores NAB court indictment
ISLAMABAD, OCT 19 (DNA) – Ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz on Thursday said the court should serve a sentence once for all rather than subpoenaing the family members time and again. Speaking warily to media persons outside the accountability court after her indictment, Maryam said that the court should not waste the precious time of the nation, beside respective lawyers, Sharif family members, and others. Deploring the accountability court’s judgment, Maryam said all attempts to divide the ruling party would go in vain, as what she claimed, theRead More
Nawaz Sharif, Maryam, Capt (retd) Safdar indicted
ISLAMABAD, OCT 18 (DNA) – An accountability court on Thursday indicted Pakistan Muslim League (PMLN) leader Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and Captain (retd) Safdar in graft cases, dismissing former prime minister’s plea to suspend the proceedings against them. During the hearing, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif filed an application in the accountability court seeking halt to the proceedings in the graft references until the Supreme Court’s verdict in his earlier plea challenging the filing of multiple corruption references against him by the National Accountability Bureau. Nawaz’s second lawyer Ayesha HamidRead More
Accountability court rejects Nawaz’s petition to stop indictment
ISLAMABAD, OCT 18 (DNA) – The accountability court has on Thursday rejected ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s petition to stop his indictment as well as the trial against him until the verdict of the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan comes. It was stated in the application that Nawaz Sharif has already appealed against all three National Accountability Bureau (NAB) references in the SC to merge them in one. Let it be known that the former premier Nawaz Sharif had earlier on Friday moved country’s top court against NAB references throughRead More