Monday, September 28th, 2020
President Arif Alvi distributes achievement awards
MUHAMMAD TAHIR DNA ISLAMABAD, SEPT 28 – The President of Pakistan Arif Alvi said to make Faisalabad the industrial, commercial and business hub of South Asia The city will have state-of-the-art facilities of international standard. In which awards were distributed among the 24 leading personalities who have excelled in various fields of industry and trade. He told despite corona, the national economy is improving. He appreciated the policy of smart lockdown for promotion of exports and increase in industrial production He said that the entire nation had taken the SOPRead More
FM Qureshi participates in annual ministerial meeting of UFC
DNA NEW YORK, SEPT 28 – The Foreign Minister participated in the annual Ministerial meeting of the “Uniting for Consensus (UfC)”,hosted by the Italian Foreign Minister in a virtual format today. Addressing the participants live, the Foreign Minister laid out a five-point proposal for advancing the UfC’s shared priorities for reforming the UN Security Council. He reaffirmed that Pakistan will continue to promote a comprehensive reform of the Security Council in order to make it a more democratic, representative, accountable, transparent and efficient body. The Foreign Minister rejected attemptsRead More
Nawaz Sharif calls important party meeting after Shahbaz’s arrest
LAHORE, Sep 28 (DNA): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former prime minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has called an important online meeting of the party after his brother, and party President. Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Mian Shehbaz Sharif was arrested by NAB in Lahore after cancellation of his bail in assets beyond means and money laundering case on Monday. According to sources, after the arrest of PML-N President, Nawaz Sharif has been in contact with several party leaders and now, in view of the situation,Read More
PML-N, PPP leaders criticise arrest of Shehbaz Sharif
LAHORE, Sep 28 (DNA): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) have strongly condemned the arrest of the Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif in the National Assembly and termed it as an attempt to dent APC’s decisions. Reacting to the news of her uncle’s arrest, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz said Shehbaz was “arrested only because he refused to play in the hands of those who wanted to use him against his brother”. “He preferred standing behind prison bars than to stand against his brother,” she wrote onRead More
AJK President asks Fazal to help stop bloodshed, genocide in IOJK
DNA MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 28: Former Chairman Parliamentary Kashmir Committee on Kashmir and the chief of Jamiat Ulema Islam Maulana Fazlur Rehman called on AJK President Sardar Masood Khan here on Monday. The whole spectrum of Kashmir issue, including Indian Army’s brutalities in occupied territory, systematic ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri people, mass demographic change in Muslim majority disputed state, India’s unlawful actions prejudicial to the UN resolutions and international laws figured during the meeting. Sardar Masood appealed to Maulana Fazlur Rehman to approach the leadership of Jamiyat Ulemae IslamRead More
US stepped up its tech war against China, placing sanctions on its biggest chipmaker
WASHINGTON, – The United States has imposed restrictions on exports to China’s biggest chip maker SMIC after concluding there is an “unacceptable risk” equipment supplied to it could be used for military purposes. Suppliers of certain equipment to SMIC will now have to apply for individual export licenses, according to a letter from the Commerce Department dated Friday. The latest move marks a shift in U.S. policy from earlier this year, when applicants seeking “military end user” licenses to sell to SMIC were told by the Commerce Department that theRead More