Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
Balochistan govt brings 69,670 acres barren land under cultivation
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25 :Balochistan Agriculture Department has brought 69,670 acres of barren land under cultivation to ensure food security by increasing agri production, said Director General Balochistan Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) Juma Khan Tareen on Wednesday. Talking to APP he said that the government has distributed High yielding seeds of wheat, rice, oil seed, sunflower and sesame among the farmers on subsidized rate to improve the production quality and cultivate new variety of seeds. He said that the government has installed as many as 246 green tunnels aimed at enhancingRead More
FM Qureshi arrives Uzbekistan
TASHKENT: /DNA/ Deputy Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan Furqat Sidkikov received Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi.The Pakistani foreign minister arrived in Tashkent from Tajikistan where he will hold high level meetings with the Uzbek leadership. Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi met with Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov, today in Tashkent. Foreign Minister Qureshi exchanged views on ways and means with his Uzbek counterpart to intensify bilateral relations in all areas. The two Foreign Ministers agreed that in view of recent frequent high level exchanges, bilateral relations have transformed into a strategicRead More
ICCI inks MoU with NUTECH to promote academia-industry linkages
ISLAMABAD, AUG 25 /DNA/ – The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICCI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National University of Technology (NUTECH), Islamabad to promote academia-industry linkages and produce demand-driven graduates for the industry. Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Dr. Adnan Qasim, Registrar, National University of Technology signed the MoU in a ceremony held at NUTECH, Islamabad. Fatma Azim, Senior Vice President ICCI, Mian Akram Farid, Chairman ICCI Founder Group, Engr. Khalid Asghar, Rector, NUTECH and others were presentRead More
Afghan resistance leader vows ‘no surrender’
Paris, Aug 25 :The leader of a resistance movement to the Taliban has vowed to never surrender but is open to negotiations with the new rulers of Afghanistan, according to an interview published by Paris Match on Wednesday. Ahmad Massoud, the son of legendary Afghan rebel commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, has retreated to his native Panjshir valley north of Kabul along with former vice-president Amrullah Saleh. “I would prefer to die than to surrender,” Massoud told French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy in his first interview since the Taliban took over Kabul.Read More
Pakistan to promote cross-border commerce with SCO countries: MoU
BEIJING, Aug 25 : In a milestone move to promote collaboration among Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states in the digital economy, Pakistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Building a Cross-border E-commerce Platform with nine trade organisations of SCO member states. The MoU inked at the Digital Commerce Conference of the 2021 China-SCO Forum on the Digital Economy Industry in China’s tech powerhouse of Chongqing, China Economic Net (CEN) reported on Wednesday. Four areas of cooperation in cross-border e-commerce are highlighted in the MoU. According to the MoU,Read More
Water outflow of China’s Sanjiangyuan on the rise
XINING, Aug. 25 :Affected by factors including climate warming and humidification, the amount of water flowing out of the Sanjiangyuan area, dubbed as “Asia’s water tower,” has increased in recent years. The amount of water outflowing from Qinghai Province, where Sanjiangyuan is located, reached 95.5 billion cubic meters in 2020, an increase of around 46.4 billion cubic meters compared with 2016. The Sanjiangyuan (Three-River-Source) area is home to the headwaters of three major rivers — the Yangtze River, China’s longest; the Yellow River, the second-longest in the country; and theRead More