DNA ISLAMABAD, JULY 10 –  Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development (OP&HRD) Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari on Friday said the government would soon launch ‘EOBI Sahulat Card’ to provide up to 10 percent subsidy to its 8 million beneficiaries on purchase of staple food from the utility stores. The agreement to this effect was signed by the heads of Employees’ Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) and Utility Stores Corporation (USC) here to materialize the initiative of the OP&HRD ministry. “The partnership between EOBI andRead More

ISLAMABAD, JULY 10 (DNA) – India has failed in securing support from Kashmiris and from the international community on its policy in Kashmir. This is an important development four years after the extrajudicial killing of Burhan Wani, a college student whose death is a watershed in Kashmir conflict. A webinar on the occasion explored India’s diplomatic isolation and was joined by experts and activists. The event was hosted by YFK-International Kashmir Lobby Group, an international nongovernmental organization that works with UN mechanisms. Ershad Mahmud, Executive Director of Center for Policy, Development,Read More

RAWALPINDI, July 10 (DNA) – Youth from the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad consolidated ‘Green Neighbourhood’ initiative here Friday in a virtual consultative meeting of the Islamabad Devcom Centennial Leo Club (IDCLC). Objective of the initiative is to engage young people and their families and friends to add value to the ongoing campaigns of clean and green cities. Speaking about the concept of ‘Green Neighbourhood’, the IDCLC president Haares Munir said, Green Neighborhood means that the young citizens and their families and friends would be engaged to take careRead More

DNA Islamabad, July 10, 2020 – The governments of Pakistan and the United States inaugurated ten COVID-19 monitoring and rapid response units yesterday to help fight the spread of this deadly pandemic.  These new units reflect a partnership between the two countries to advance the COVID-19 response in all 158 districts across Pakistan.   Pakistani health officials and non-government organizations, in partnership with and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), trained 126 local government health workers in the districts of Bagh, Bhimber, Hattian Bala Haveli, JhelumRead More

DNA ISLAMABAD, – JULY 10 –  Federal Ministers Fakhar Imam, Mr. Asad Umar, Senator Shibli Faraz, Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, Finance Advisor Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, SAPM for Information & Broadcasting Lt. Gen. (R) Asim Saleem Bajwa, SAPM Dr. Shahbaz Gill, Chairman NDMA and senior officers attended the briefing. Chief Ministers of Punjab, Sindh & Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; and Chief Secretary Balochistan participated via video link. The Prime Minister was informed that National Action Plan for Locust Control Phase-I has been completed. Engineer-in-Chief PakistanRead More