ISLAMABAD, AUG 22: DG Strategic Plans Division (SPD) Lt. Gen. Nadeem Zaki Manj called on Prime Minister Imran Khan at Islamabad. DG SPD briefed the Prime Minister regarding initiatives of Strategic Plans Division.   Prime Minister appreciated the role and contribution of SPD.

ISLAMABAD, AUG 22 (DNA) – The Chevening South Asia Journalism Fellowship (SAJP) application window is now open to receive applications for 2020/21 cohort. The scheme is aimed at mid-career journalists from South Asian countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives who have reached a position of influence and want to increase their knowledge, networks, and potential through tailored short courses, research, or professional placements at UK institutions. The fully funded fellowship is a collaboration between the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the University of Westminster. IndividualsRead More

ATTOCK, AUG 22 (DNA) – Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam regional campus of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) would be established in the city soon which would benefit more than 14,000 students. He said this while visiting the site where the campus will be built. Malik Amin Aslam said that Punjab government had allocated 4 kanal of land for the campus and the cost of the building would be paid by AIOU, adding construction of the campus would be started soon. He saidRead More

DNA Islamabad, AUG 22 – : The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has invited applications from students having ambulatory disability by September 15, 2020 to receive electric wheelchairs under second phase of the Prime Minister’s Electric Wheelchair Scheme for University Students. The students being enrolled in public sector universities and affiliated colleges during Fall Semester 2020-21 can submit their applications through www.eportal.hec.gov.pk/wheelchair. The scheme’s eligibility criteria cover those students who have physical and permanent ambulatory disability to such a degree that they are unable to move from one place to another withoutRead More

ISLAMABAD, AUG 22 (DNA) – Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry has said that contact with the British government for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s return and inquiry of medical reports are right decisions. In his tweet, Fawad Chaudhry said that Nawaz Sharif’s departure to London has severely damaged Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) narrative and the process of accountability. The minister stressed that those who were involved in preparing fake medical reports of Nawaz Sharf should be given exemplary punishments Yesterday, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli FarazRead More

KARACHI, AUG 22 (DNA) – Surjani area received maximum 186 millimetres of rainfall, in Karachi on Friday, Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said in its weather report.   The met office has released figures of the extent of rainfall in Karachi and other parts of Sindh during the sixth monsoon spell in the region. According to rain figures, North Karachi received 106.4 mm and North Nazimabad 106 millimetres of rainfall. Meanwhile, Gulshan-e-Hadeed 84 mm, Masroor Base 54 mm, Saadi Town 37mm, University Road 28mm, Landhi 25mm, Faisal Base 22, Jinnah TerminalRead More