Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
Pakistan, Uzbekistan agree to boost parliamentary relations
Ambassador Furqat meets Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaisar ISLAMABAD, MAR 05 (DNA) –Ambassador of Uzbekistan Furqat Sidikov on Tuesday met with the Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan Asad Qaiser. During the meeting, both sides discussed issues of enhancing bilateral inter-parliamentary relations between Uzbekistan and Pakistan including further enhancing of cooperation in the field of trade, agriculture, logistics, investments and cultural cooperation. Both sides agreed to consider the organization of bilateral visits of Parliamentarians to Uzbekistan and Pakistan during 2019 year. Pakistani side also expressed itsRead More
Barlybay Sadykov: Kazakhstan keen to diversify ties with Pakistan
Ambassador of Kazakhstan talks to CENTRELINE and DNA Ansar Mahmood Bhatti Ambassador of Kazakhstan Barlybay Sadykov talked to CENTRELINE and Diplomatic News Agency (DNA). He talked about various aspects of Kazakhstan-Pakistan ties. Here is the text of his interview Please share with us some key features of Kazakh-Pakistan relations, especially in the fields of diplomacy, trade, politics and culture. First of all, Kazakhstan and Pakistan have a long history of friendly relationship, with their beginning dating back to the early 1990’s. So, since then our countries haveRead More
Pak-India tensions; time to exercise restraint By Ansar Mahmood Bhatti
Indian fighter planes intruded into Pakistan territory in the early hours of Tuesday, February 26, claiming to have hit hideouts of JeM. The Indian side also claimed killing scores of JeM people. Consequent reports and investigations proved all Indian claims false as there was no JeM hideout whatsoever in Balakot thus no question of large scale killings. When challenged by jets of Pakistan Air Force, the Indian planes fled from the scene jettisoning the payload. Pakistan the next morning struck back and hit two Indian planes killing two pilots andRead More
22 of the top 30 most polluted cities in the world are in India
NEW DELHI, (DNA) – India accounts for seven of the world’s 10 cities with the worst air pollution, according to a new report, but previously smogbound Chinese cities have seen a marked improvement. Gurugram, a suburb of the Indian capital New Delhi, is the world’s most polluted city, according to Greenpeace and AirVisual, which found it had an average air quality index of 135.8 in 2018 — almost three times the level which the US Environmental Protection Agency regards as healthy. In two months of last year, the AQI in Gurugram —Read More