Monday, August 26th, 2019
A one-year-old girl’s birthday celebration in Hong Kong ends in tears, crying and tear gas
HONG KONG, AUG 26 (DNA) — Ms Wing Leung never imagined a day celebrating her infant daughter’s birthday would finish with crying, tears, and tear gas. The mother of two and her family were subjected to the stinging effects of the chemical as they walked home in Tai Wai on August 10, and the marks from that day are still with the two young girls. “I wondered whether I would have ‘stinky eggs’ [tear gas] the next day,” Ms Leung’s three-year-old daughter Pipi Ng said. Remembering the moment, the youngsterRead More
Vice President of Chinese military commission meets Gen. Bajwa
Rawalpindi, 26 Aug 2019: General Xu Qiliang, Vice Chairman Central Military Commission (CMC) visited GHQ with a high level delegation. Visiting dignitary had one on one meeting with COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa followed by delegation level talks. During the meeting, matters of mutual interest, regional security, avenues to enhance bilateral defence collaboration and particularly situation in Indian occupied Jummu and Kashmir (IoJ&K) were discussed. COAS appreciated China’s understanding and support on all important issues particularly Kashmir. Visiting dignitary affirmed that China greatly values its time tested relations with PakistanRead More
Twitter sends notice to President Alvi over Kashmir tweet
ISLAMABAD, AUG 26 (DNA) – The authority of social networking website Twitter has sent a notice to Pakistani President Arif Alvi over Indian complaint regarding his tweet on Kashmir situation. Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari has posted the screenshot of the mail received by Dr Arif Alvi from Twitter authorities and wrote, “Twitter has really gone too far in becoming mouthpiece of the Rogue Modi govt! They sent a notice to our President! In bad taste and simply ridiculous.” Twitter has really gone too far in becoming mouthpiece of theRead More
Kashmir matter will be solved only by revolution: AJK President Masood Khan
ISLAMABAD, AUG 26 (DNA) – Azad Jammu Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan on Monday said that the war over the occupied Kashmir is not only for peace in Kashmir but in the entire region and the matter will be solved only by public revolution. Addressing a seminar on the situation in occupied Kashmir, President Masood Khan expressed that one must first understand the real tragedy of occupied Kashmir. AJK President asserted that tens of thousands of people, including children has been arrested in IoK. He expressed hope saying that forRead More
President calls for accurate data base of needy artists for disbursement of funds
ISLAMABAD AUGUST 26,(DNA)- President Dr. Arif Alvi said on Monday underlined the need of accurate data base of deserving and needy artists to ensure disbursement of funds in a transparent manner. He made these remarks while chairing the 9th Steering Committee for Federal Government Artists’ Welfare Fund at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad. The President said that the basic purpose of this fund was to provide financial support to the needy artists. The President further said that artists being the invaluable part of the society had rendered enormous services for the promotionRead More
Thailand wants more imports from Pakistan: CG
KARACHI(DNA)-: There are more commonalities than differences between the people of Thailand and Pakistan and we must make this factor the cornerstone of our relationship to take it to the next level. This was said by Thatree Chauvachata, Consul General of the Royal Thai Consulate in Karachi, during an informal interaction with the media at his residence. The Thai Consul General said there is room for greatly increasing trade relations and his country was keen to increase imports from Pakistan. He said two-way trade between Pakistan and Thailand duringRead More