Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Fawad urges global community to address human rights violation in IIOJK
ISLAMABAD, Mar 24 : Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhary Wednesday urged the international community to take steps to help address the grave human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). India should respect the UN resolutions and must conduct the plebiscite in IIOJK to end the sufferings of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and let them decide their future, minister said this while speaking in a Radio Pakistan’s current affair programme. He said the key to durable peace in South Asia was peacefulRead More
Pakistani cotton farmers could benefit from Chinese experience. Experts
BEIJING, March 24 : Chinese experts in an online seminar elaborated how Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region excel in cotton production in the world and how Pakistani cotton farmers could benefit from their experience. According to China Economic Net (CEN), Dong Hezhong, principal researcher at Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that seed research to pick the right seed for right atmosphere, cotton-peanut intercropping and plant architecture to allow for mechanical harvest enabled Xinjiang to enhance its share in China’s cotton production from less than 4% in 1949 to 76% asRead More
Pakistan records 30 Covid deaths, 3,301 cases in 24 hours
ISLAMABAD: Coronavirus has claimed 30 more lives in Pakistan during the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 13,965. The latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) showed the COVID-19 has claimed 30 more lives and 3,301 fresh infections were reported during the period. The total count of active cases is 36,849. A total of 38,282 tests were conducted across the country during this period. Since the detection of the first COVID-19 case in the country, overall 9,895,515 tests have been conducted so far. 2,564Read More