Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Indonesia hails Pakistan’s role in Afghan peace process
ISLAMABAD, (DNA) :Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has appreciated Pakistan’s reconciliatory efforts for establishment of peace in Afghanistan. The appreciation came while having a telephonic conversation with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday. On the occasion, both the Foreign Ministers discussed matters of mutual interest, bilateral relations including economic and trade cooperation. They also reposed satisfaction over the economic, defence and political ties between the two countries. The Foreign Minister invited his counterpart to visit Pakistan, which she consent.
Pakistan fully eliminates desert locust with China’s help: Report
Islamabad, October 8 (DNA) : With prompt and massive assistance from China, Pakistan has averted the worst-ever swarms of desert locusts and eliminated the insects, said official sources and farmers in hard-hit Bahawalpur, Mirpurkhas and Layyah regions, according to Gwadar Pro on Thursday. It was not possible without support from our all-weather friend, said a senior official of Pakistan’s National Locust Control Centre while commenting on a recent report of the NLCC, which revealed that no locusts were reported from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, and Punjab provinces of the country. Kishore Togani,Read More
PCDMA demands FBR chairman to allow 2pc income tax on raw materials
Karachi: Mirza Nadeem Baig, Chairman Pakistan Chemicals & Dyes Merchants’ Association (PCDMA), has expressed grave concern over non-implementation of the FBR budget anomalies committee’s decision to allow commercial importers to pay 2pc income tax on imported raw materials and demanded FBR chairman to immediate implementation of the recommendations of the anomalies committee and include the raw materials of chemicals & dyes in part2 instead of part3, so that commercial importers can be saved from serious financial losses. In an appeal to FBR chairman, Mirza Nadeem Baig said that in the federalRead More
Qureshi talks to UAE minister
ISLAMABAD (DNA) -Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a telephonic conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) His Highness Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to exchange views on bilateral relations, regional situation and issues of common interest. Foreign Minister Qureshi underlined that Pakistan and United Arab Emirates have deep, historic and fraternal ties. Millions of Pakistanis living in the UAE have been playing their part in building and developing the UAE for decades.The two brotherly countries fully supportedRead More
Armenia’s act of aggression against Azerbaijan: many civilian causalities
BAKU (DNA) -The armed forces of Armenia have continued to target the civilian population, private houses and other civilian infrastructure in residential areas along the line of contact in a gross violation of its obligations under international humanitarian law, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Civilian facilities, such as hospitals, medical centers, school buildings, kindergartens as well as graveyards have been subjected to indiscriminate shelling of armed forces of Armenia, including from artillery and other large-caliber weaponry. As of 07 October, totally 28 civilians[1], including children and elderly haveRead More
Maryam Safdar always caused problems for PML-N: Chohan
LAHORE : Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan has said that opposition has started working to fool the masses. Terming the appointment of Maulana Fazlur Rehman as head of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), a shocking move, Fayyazul Hassan Chohan, said that how can a person, who failed to even win in elections, is now leading the opposition. The provincial minister also claimed that JUI-F chief helped in clearing the way for Nawaz’s travel abroad by his Azadi March. Now let’s see the outcome of new ‘Maulana-PML-M nexus’, he said. HeRead More