ISLAMABAD, MAR 29 (DNA) – Stressing the need to quickly establish a training system for the newly-formed force namely ‘PM’s Corona Relief Tigers’, economists and policy experts said that a national database containing individual level details of volunteers regarding their qualification, skills and location needs to be automated using a management information system. They were speaking at an online meeting titled “Training of Corona Relief Tigers Force” organized by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) on Sunday. PM’s Special Assistant on National Security Division and Strategic Policy Planning Dr Moeed Yusuf andRead More

  ISLAMABAD, Mar 29 (DNA):Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication had developed an application “Covid-19 Gov Pk” to effectively deal with deadly coronovirus in the country. The application had been developed on the direction of Federal Secretary Ministry of IT and Telecommunication Shoaib  Ahmad  Siddiqui to deal threat of Coronavirus with the help of technology. The application was developed by National Information Technology Board (NITB), an organisation under Ministry of IT and Telecommunication. The application will provide awareness to citizens about all the actions to be taken for the preventionRead More

KABUL, Mar 29 (DNA): Afghan Presidential Advisor Waheed Umar on Sunday asked the Taliban to introduce their delegation for intra Afghan talks and stop making excuses. Addressing reporters here, he said the government delegation was inclusive and was introduced. Wahid Omar at a press conference on Sunday in Kabul responded to the Taliban statement about the Afghan peace delegation being “against the agreement between the Taliban and the US,” saying the Taliban must not raise issues with our delegation, as we also can raise issues with theirs. All the prisonersRead More

ISLAMABAD, Mar 29 (DNA):Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lieutenant General Muhammad Afzal Sunday said the government of China had supported Pakistan in the testing times of coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and played the role of a true friend. Addressing media persons after receiving the medical aid reached from Wuhan, he said this was the second flight carrying medical equipment from China to Islamabad. He said around 6 tonnes of goods had arrived in a special flight from Wuhan. The equipment included 15 ventilators, 300,000  medical masks, 20,000 N95 masks andRead More

The WHO report also confirmed that newspapers and other reading material are safe from COVID-19. The likelihood of an infected person contaminating commercial goods is low and therefore the risk of contacting COVID-19 through receipt of a printed paper is infinitely small     KARACHI – (DNA)The Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE), has  announced that newspapers have been declared safe from Corona Virus. World Health Organization (WHO) in its detailed report, has confirmed that Corona Virus (COVID-19) cannot reach in human body from printed newspapers and magazines.   TheRead More

    DNA   ISLAMBAD:  The Air Transport fleet of PAF has been assigned the onerous responsibility to Air lift medical equipment and relief goods from Peoples’ Republic of China to help fight COVID-19 Pandemic in Pakistan.   In this regard, a PAF IL- 78 aircraft laden with 14 Tons of cargo comprising Ventilators, N95 masks and protective gear landed at PAF Base Nur Khan early in the morning today.   This is one of the many relief flights undertaken by PAF in past couple of months.  These sorties alsoRead More