Saturday, September 14th, 2019
PM Imran asks 3 world powers to help resolve Kashmir issue
ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the three major world powers – the United States, China and Russia – should join hands to help resolve several international issues, including the longstanding Kashmir dispute. “The worst in this [Kashmir] case is unimaginable that the two nuclear armed countries getting into conflict. The only way is that US President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping use their influence to settle the issue,” Imran Khan told Russia Today’s Paula Slier in an interview telecast in fullRead More
Legislators urge for national response for achieving SDGs and recognizing the role of private sector
ISLAMABAD, (DNA) – In what could be a significant step towards achieving SDGs and national development agenda in Pakistan, lawmakers representing major political parties from Senate, National Assembly and four Provincial Assemblies recognizing the importance of achieving SDGs joined hands and vowed to lead the process for generating a national response for achieving SDGs. The legislators had gathered at the First National Legislators’ Conclave, on Financing Sustainable Development Goals. The conclave was organized by Institute of Social and Policy Sciences (I-SAPS) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ). ApartRead More
Tahir-ul-Qadri quits politics
LAHORE (DNA) – Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahir-ul-Qadri on Saturday announced to quit politics. In a video link, he said it was a test of “new people” who had been claiming of bringing change [in the country]. “Where’s the change?” he asked.
Kashmiris not to succumb to India’s repression: AJK president
BRUSSELS, SEPT 14 (DNA) – The AJK President Sardar Masood Khan has called upon the Kashmiri and Pakistani expatriates to make hectic efforts to highlight Kashmir issue in Europe in its true perspective. “Kashmir was and would never become part of India but this is a conflict, and its solution lies in the relevant UN resolutions only,” he declared. Addressing Kashmiri and Pakistani Diaspora here on Saturday, he said that India through the use of brute force would never succeed in suppressing the just struggle of Kashmiri people for theRead More
Fire and thread: Bayeux-inspired ‘Game of Thrones’ tapestry unveiled in France
BAYEUX, France (DNA) – The French town of Bayeux has been home for nearly a millennium to a tapestry depicting a bloody battle for power. Now it has another. An exhibition featuring a tapestry illustrating the events of hit HBO TV show “Game of Thrones” opened in Bayeux, Normandy, on Friday – just down the road from the museum where its eleventh century inspiration is housed. The tapestry was created in Northern Ireland, one of the principal filming locations for the series. Around 30 stitchers worked for some 1,500 hoursRead More
Nuclear war’s consequences are inconceivable: PM Khan warns world
ISLAMABAD (DNA) – Prime Minister Imran Khan, in an interview, has warned the global powers and the international community of grave consequences if a nuclear war breaks out between arch-rivals Pakistan and India. “It is a nation that will fight till the last breath,” he said while referring to a possibility of using nuclear arms in the war. “[The aftermath] of a nuclear conflict is unimaginable […] and anything is possible if two nuclear-armed states enter into war against each other,” he said. “No sane person can talk of aRead More