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India being run by fascist government, says PM Imran

ISLAMABAD : Prime Minister Imran Khan has lamented that eight million people in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir have been put in open prison by Indian forces since Delhi’s Aug 5 move of annexing the disputed territory. Giving an interview to Al-Jazeera, PM Imran Khan said that when he became the country’s prime minister, he extended a hand of friendship towards India, but India took it lightly and revoked the special status of Kashmir last year in August. “Indian is being ruled by an extremist government. It is a Hindu supremacistRead More


Price control authority on the cards: Punjab CM

LAHORE : Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar revealed on Thursday the provincial government is going to set up a price control authority to check inflation in the province. Speaking to MNA Rukhsana Naveed who called on him in Lahore, he said the ruling PTI had served public day and night over the past two years and maintained that prices of food items are far lower in Punjab than those in other provinces, he added. He said Punjab is the only province where a 20-kilogramme wheat bag is available at Rs860.Read More


FM Qureshi strongly denounces blasphemous caricatures by French magazine

ISLAMABAD : Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has strongly denounced the publication of blasphemous caricatures by French Magazine Charlie Hebdo. In a video statement on Thursday, the foreign minister said these caricatures have hurt the sentiments of millions of Muslims across the world. “Pakistan has conveyed its concerns to the French government on the despicable act,” said Qureshi and added that those behind the publication of blasphemous caricatures must be taken to task. Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Prime Minister Imran Khan last year had raised the issue of blasphemousRead More


Rise of Cosmetic procedures in Pakistan

DNA Islamabad:-Cosmetic procedures once used to be exclusive to Hollywood. Actresses used to get their facial features enhanced by a plastic surgeon. Plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures were once the open secret of Beverly Hills and there were many negative connotations attached to the act of going to a doctor to look beautiful. Times have changed, cosmetic procedures whether invasive or non-invasive have become a part of the beauty rituals all over the world. According to a study published by American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 18 million Americans went underRead More


Wuhan and Punjab Universities launch joint research center on Honglian hybrid rice

BEIJING, Sept. 3 : A formal ceremony held in Wuhan to start a project, establishing Wuhan University – University of the Punjab-Honglian Type Hybrid Rice Joint Research Center.   Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Pakistani counterparts attended the ceremony online, Gwadar Pro reported on Thursday. Honglian hybrid rice is one of the three major types of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) of rice (Oryza sativa L.) that has been commercially used in hybrid rice seed production.   By 2020, the global acreage of Honglian hybrid rice has exceeded about 26.67 million hectares.The futureRead More


A newly-signed project to employ big number of Pakistani staff: Xu Wei

Islamabad, Sep 3 : A Chinese enterprise Shaanxi Huashan Construction Group Co.(TIEC) has estimated that it will employ a large number of Pakistani staff during the construction of the addition of two lanes to N-55 National Road (Ratodero- Shikarpur).   Last week, the TIEC, one of the top 250 global contractors of ENR, won the bid by National Highways Authority (NHA) for the addition of two lanes,   According to Gwadar Pro on Thursday, the 43.4 km project is the first winning project issued by NHA in 2020. The projectRead More