Monday, February 3rd, 2020
‘Clean and Green drive will make Pakistan an environment friendly country’
ATTOCK, FEB 03 (DNA) – Clean and Green Program will make Pakistan an environment friendly country as this program is heading towards green revolution. Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam said this while chairing a meeting in connection with Clean and Green Program in Attock. DC Attock Ali Anan Qamar , Deputy Director Information Shahzad Niaz Khokhar , assistant commissioners and other officers were also present. Malik Amin said , we together can make Pakistan neat and clean and this could be materialized through collective efforts.Read More
Germany wants to further enhance trade relations with Pakistan: envoy
ISLAMABAD, FEB 03 (DNA) – Bernhard Schlagheck, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Pakistan said that Germany wanted to further enhance trade relations with Pakistan and added that two German delegations one representing water and sanitation sector and the other representing agriculture sector were scheduled to visit Pakistan to explore business collaborations with Pakistani counterparts. He said that Pak-German bilateral trade was over 3 billion Euros with trade balance in favour of Pakistan. He said that Pakistan was mostly exporting textiles, leather products and surgical instruments to GermanyRead More
More than 60 OSCE PA members to observe elections in Azerbaijan
BAKU (DNA) -Upon the invitation of the Azerbaijani authorities, OSCE PA will send a delegation of more than 60 observers to monitor the snap parliamentary elections on February 9. Report informs, citing the OSCE PA press service, that the delegation will monitor elections in Baku and several regions of Azerbaijan. The OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office has appointed Artur Gerasymov (MP, Ukraine) as Special Coordinator for the OSCE short-term observer mission. Elona Hoxha-Gjebrea (MP, Albania) will head the OSCE PA delegation. Meanwhile Military units of the armed forces of Armenia violated ceasefire 24 times throughout the day in variousRead More
Tear gas, dozens of arrests in fresh anti-Macron protest in Paris
PARIS, – French police fired tear gas under a rain of projectiles and arrested dozens of people on Saturday as thousands of “yellow vest” anti-government protesters returned to the streets of Paris. Demonstrators shouted slogans denouncing the police, President Emmanuel Macron and his pension reforms that have triggered the longest French transport strike in decades. The night before Macron and his wife Brigitte had to be rushed briefly from a Paris theatre after protesters tried to burst in and disrupt the performance. With sirens wailing, riot police drove across the French capital in dozens of vansRead More
Strikes in France are drawing to a close. But there’s no real winner
PARIS, — Since his 2017 presidential campaign, Emmanuel Macron has never hid his lofty ambitions to shake up France in a big way. A former investment banker, Macron has conveyed France as “le start up nation” and favors the disruptive enthusiasm of a Silicon Valley venture capitalist in a country that also cherishes its age-old traditions. Nothing is apparently off the table. Early in his presidency, Macron succeeded in making it easier for small French businesses to hire and fire employees. And late last year, he set his sights onRead More
‘India under Virat reminds me of Pakistan under Imran,’ says Sanjay Manjrekar
Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar said on Monday that the current Indian squad under skipper Virat Kohli’s leadership reminds him of Pakistan’s team when it was led by Imran Khan. “Strong self belief as a team,” Manjrekar said on Twitter while likening Kohli’s leadership to that of Pakistan’s World Cup winning captain. “Pakistan under Imran found different ways of winning matches, often from losing positions. That only happens when the self belief is strong,” he further said. In December, Kohli had said that his priority, as aRead More