DNA ISLAMABAD, AUG 12 – Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a video call with Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov of Uzbekistan. Matters of mutual interest, including the Covid-19 Pandemic, bilateral cooperation and regional situation were discussed.   Foreign Minister underlined that Pakistan and Uzbekistan enjoy cordial and brotherly relations and expressed satisfaction on the goodwill that existed between Pakistan and Uzbekistan at the leadership and official level which is also manifested in the people-to-people contacts.   Foreign Minister Qureshi thanked his Uzbek counterpart for the assistance extended by theRead More

DNA ISLAMABAD, AUG 12  –  Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) on Wednesday has formally launch the book titled ‘Poisons in our environment’ that is based on in-depth study on the hazardous industrial waste dumped in the different region across Pakistan. Dr Mahmood A. Khwaja, the author of the book, has covered and identified various issues through his study pertaining the presence of hazardous and toxic waste material at 38 sites in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that pose serious health and environmental problems in the respective localities. Dr Khwaja, who isRead More

ISLAMABAD, AUG 12 (DNA) – President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday said Pakistan attached utmost importance to its bilateral relations with Afghanistan and was fully committed to further improving ties in all areas of mutual interest. The President stated this during a meeting with the outgoing Afghan Ambassador Atif Mashal, who paid a farewell call on him, here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. The President said Prime Minister Imran Khan had deep interest in strengthening relations with all neighbours especially Afghanistan.   He said that a peaceful and stable Afghanistan was inRead More

ISLAMABAD, AUG 12 (DNA) – The Department of Tourist Services (DTS), an attached department of Ministry of Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC), regulates travel and hospitality sector in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). Tourism sector has been seriously hit by Covid-19 pandemic like other sectors in whole of the world which needed special attentions and economic support for its revival. Dr Fahmida Mirza, Minister for IPC put her efforts and got exemption from ECC for annual fee for renewal of licenses for tourism sector working under administrative control ofRead More

KARACHI, AUG 12 (DNA) – A fourth case of Congo fever was reported at Karachi’s Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. The news was confirmed by JPMC Executive Director Dr Seemin Jamali, a private television channel reported Wednesday. The patient is a 31-year-old man named Waqas from Lines Area. He was admitted to JPMC on August 10 after presenting a week-long history of fever and vomit with blood. This is the fourth case at JPMC and the first one after Eidul Azha. The first case was reported in March. Last year theRead More

KARACHI, AUG 12 (DNA) – The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday directed National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to clean all Karachi nullahs and remove encroachments around them in three months. Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Faisal Arab and Justice Ijazul Ahsan, heard the case of illegal encroachments on drains at the SC Karachi registry. As the hearing went underway, CJP Gulzar inquired Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shallwani about the ongoing drive to clean the city’s stormwater drains. The Karachi commissioner informed the court that NDMA has cleaned the city’s threeRead More