Friday, December 22nd, 2017
3 FC soldiers martyred, 5 terrorists killed in Mohmand Agency
MOHMAND AGENCY, DEC 22 (DNA) – Three Frontiers Corps personnel were martyred when suspected terrorists opened fire on their team from across the Pak-Afghan border in Mohmand Agency on Friday, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. The troops were targeted when they busy in the construction of a new border post at Shunkrai area of Mohmand tribal region near the border with Afghanistan. A protection party that was accompanying the troops responded to the attack, killing five suspected terrorists and leaving as many injured, the ISPR said.
CPEC will be completed by 2030: Foreign Office
ISLAMABAD, DEC 22 (DNA) – Foreign Office Spokesperson, Dr Muhammad Faisal said Thursday that the first phase of CPEC would be completed by 2020 while the entire project would be functional by 2030. During his weekly press briefing in Foreign Office, Dr Faisal said that Pakistan and China regularly monitor the progress of these projects, adding that the decision to bring more projects and highways under CPEC would be taken by the two countries with consensus. He informed that visas have been issued to the wife and mother of theRead More
President Emomali proposed to declare 2018 as the year of tourism
DUSHANBE, DEC 22 (DNA) – President of the Republic of Tajikistan H.E. Mr. Emomali Rahmon has said that I would like to propose to declare 2018 as the Year of tourism and folk- crafts in the country. He said, in this process, the Government needs to make sure to allocate preferential loans to entrepreneurs and artisans through the Business Support Fund to develop the national folk-crafts. With a view to encouraging population for production of public consumption goods and development of folk-crafts the sale of such products needs to releaseRead More
Putin, Erdoğan agree on creation of Palestinian state in phone call: Kremlin
MOSCOW, DEC 22 (DNA) – Russia’s Putin and Turkey’s Erdoğan have reached agreement on creating a Palestinian state during a phone call on Friday, the Kremlin said in a written statement. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday said they both supported creating a Palestinian state, the Kremlin said the day after the UN rejected the decision by Washington to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In a phonecall, the two leaders “discussed the situation of Middle East peace talks in the context of the resolutionRead More
Maryam Nawaz likely candidate for Punjab chief ministry
LAHORE, DEC 22 (DNA) – Maryam Nawaz – daughter of ex-PM Nawaz Sharif who is also the ruling PML-N head – is the likely candidate for Punjab chief ministry, predicted senior political analyst Salman Ghani. He told that Maryam will contest in both elections of the National Assembly and Punjab Assembly. His informed sources revealed that the emerging politician has started meeting both provincial and federal lawmakers. Nawaz Sharif will retain Punjab and grip its politics to maintain his reputation, Ghani added. It is worth mentioning that Nawaz Sharif himselfRead More
Shehbaz’s nomination for PM post to be fruitful, predicts Ch Nisar
ISLAMABAD, DEC 22 (DNA) – Former Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar in his statement on Friday has predicted that Shehbaz Sharif’s nomination for PM post from PML-N in the next elections is likely to be fruitful. The former Interior Minister in his statement remarked that PML-N is going through a very critical phase which requires prudence rather than emotions and added that parties cannot be run through social media and tickers and ‘non-politicial people’ can prove to be hazardous for the parties. Regarding the ‘confrontation with judiciary’ matter, he stressed thatRead More