Thursday, April 8th, 2021
‘Highly painful’ IPC Minister Fehmida Mirza on PFF’s suspension
Islamabad: The Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination, Fehmida Mirza termed the suspension of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) by the FIFA Bureau as highly painful, and absolutely shocking to the millions of football fans. While reacting on the matter, Fehmida emphasized that they had already condemned the act of taking over of Football House by a faction of PFF in unequivocal terms. “It is unfortunate that FIFA has suspended Pakistan’s membership,” she said. “The government is trying to bring both sides to the negotiating table,” she added. She requested theRead More
Pakistani rupee hits 22-month high against US dollar
KARACHI: The Pakistan rupee strengthened by 23 paisas against the United States (US) dollar at the start of today’s trading, hitting a 22-month high. According to forex dealers, the local currency is currently trading at Rs152.95 against the greenback. The rupee had closed at Rs153.18 against the US dollar the other day. The local unit has gained considerable ground on the back of improved foreign exchange reserves, current account surplus, foreign loan receipts, higher remittances besides less demand of dollar due to the ongoing pandemic. The rupee has recovered moreRead More
PM Imran Khan performs ground breaking of Farash Town apartments
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has performed the groundbreaking of Farash Town apartments in Islamabad under the Naya Pakistan Housing Program. PM Imran Khan, while addressing the event in connection with the Farash Town apartments, said the federal government is making progress in Naya Pakistan Housing Program (NPHP) and Frontier Works Organization (FWO) told him to complete the housing project within two years. The premier said that their efforts for providing easy loans to the nationals have borne fruit as the banks are ready to provide housing finance and manyRead More
New Zealand suspends entry for travellers from India due to high COVID-19 cases
Wellington : New Zealand has temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India for about two weeks following a high number of positive coronavirus cases. In a news conference in Auckland, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said decision is taken after country recorded 23 new positive coronavirus cases at its border of which 17 were from India.
New accountability courts are being established: Farogh Naseem
Islamabad : Minister for Law and Justice, Barrister Farogh Naseem has said more new accountability courts are being established to take the pending corruption and money laundering cases to their logical end. Talking to a private news channel, he said new ordinance will be introduced to appoint the judges while the officials have already been appointed in these courts. The minister said the government had done a remarkable job while introducing institutional reforms particularly in Law Ministry as no previous government had made reforms in the national institutions.
Pakistan to become strong with provision of swift, cheap justice to people: Sarwar
Lahore : Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar has said that Pakistan will become strong with provision of swift and cheap justice to people. He was talking during meeting with Provincial Ombudsman Punjab, Azam Suleman in Lahore, during which Provincial Ombudsman presented his Department’s annual report to the Governor. Governor said that decrease in ratio of complaints filing in province is a welcome development. He said that injustice against anybody will not be tolerated. He said that our constitution guarantees protection of every citizen’s basic rights and provision of indiscriminate justiceRead More