Sunday, October 4th, 2020
Fabulous Fez!
Hamid Asghar Khan One of the essential elements of diplomacy in the info-technology enabled era of instant and constant communication, is the rise in importance of Soft Power Projection. The image and perception of a country now form an important part of its national power matrix. The enchanting city of Fez, just over 2 hours north of Rabat via excellent motorway, is the second largest city in Morocco with a population of 1.2 million. It is globally known for its magnificent architectural heritage, its culture, for the arts and as anRead More
PDO, PNCA organize stage play titled “Barzakh”
DNA ISLAMABAD – Pattan development organization in collaboration with Pakistan National Council of the Arts, Islamabad organized a stage play titled “Barzakh” at PNCA open air theatre on 3rd and 4th October 2020. This stage play was written and directed by Mr. William Pervaz with the main lead Mr Zabir Sarhadi. It was a serious play about a specific group of people who use religion for their personal benefits. The story moves around a character who was dead a long ago and his body was narrating the story ofRead More
PNCA launches one year online film production course
DNA ISLAMABAD – Pakistan National Council of the Arts officially launched one year online film production course. A ceremony was held on 3rd of October 2020 at Shakir Ali Mausam Lahore. Minister for National Heritage and Culture Division Mr Shafqat Mehmood was the guest of honour along with the Director General PNCA Dr Fouzia Saeed,Cultural Attache to the US Embassy Mr Philip Assis and Mr Kamran Lashari,Miyan Amjad Farzand Ali President Pakistan Film Producers Association. Renowned showbiz celebrates like Syed Noor, Nisho,Sarmad Khoosat, Shahid Mehmood Nadeem,Wazir Afzal were also there to grace the occasion.Clips of a special video package was presented showcasing songs from 1950 to 2020. The audience really enjoyed and applauded experencing the nostalgia . A special video was exhibited by Rameez Anwar the grandson ofRead More
Criticising LNG project scaring away investors: Shahid Rasheed
DNA ISLAMABAD, – Former President ICCI Shahid Rasheed Butt on Sunday said the LNG project is being criticised frequently to settle scores which will scare away local and foreign investors. Important projects should not be compromised for political gains as as the advisor to PM on petroleum and some other officials have taken a lot of pain to use LNG to overcome the gas shortfall, he said. Shahid Rasheed Butt said that the efforts of the government has attracted a lot of notable local and foreign investors, therefore,Read More
US China trade war provide opportunity for Pakistani businesses to tap Chinese market under CPEC; Jawad
DNA Islamabad: OCT 4- FPCCI’s Businessmen Panel, Secretary General Federal, Ahmad Jawad said Pakistan must increase the barely production for export purpose especially for China, as they have a large consumption scale of barley, even the domestic supply was only around one million tons per year, which leads to high import dependence. In 2019, barley production for Pakistan was only 63 thousand tonnes. Though Pakistan barley production fluctuated substantially in recent years, it tended to decrease through 1970 – 2019 period ending at 63 thousand tonnes in 2019. Jawad said recently China has halted its importRead More
Ethnic Armenians being deployed in occupied territories of Azerbaijan
In most cases, the Government of Armenia and Diaspora organizations in third countries make calls on Diaspora members to expeditiously join armed units of Armenia in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan BAKU (DNA) -Armenia in an attempt to compensate serious losses it has been inflicted in the course of the counter-offensive operations of the armed forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan to repel the armed aggression of the armed forces of Armenia and to protect Azerbaijani civilians takes steps to involve foreign nationals, mainly of Armenian origin into its armedRead More