Monday, September 27th, 2021
President invites Int’l Community to visit Pakistan
Islamabad : President Dr. Arif Alvi has invited the international community to visit Pakistan and see the hospitality of this peaceful country. In his special message on the occasion of World Tourism Day, the President said Pakistan provides an opportunity for tourists to enjoy natural landscapes, centuries-old diverse culture, welcoming people and delicious food. He said all the four provinces of Pakistan including Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir have been blessed with attractive natural landscapes, weather, animals of different kinds, flora as well as social and cultural diversity. TheRead More
Turkey Intends To Buy More Russian Defence Systems: Erdogan
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey was still intending to buy a second batch of missile defence systems from Russia, a move that triggered US sanctions and deepened a rift with Washington. In an interview aired on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan at CBS News, Erdogan said nobody can interfere with what defence systems Ankara, a NATO ally, would buy. “Nobody can interfere with that. We are the only ones to make such decisions.” Washington has repeatedly said a second batch of the S-400s would almost certainly trigger freshRead More
Afghan envoy from Ghani govt should vacate UN seat: FM
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said the Afghanistan’s ambassador in the United Nations from Afghanistan’s toppled regime had no standing and that the war-torn country’s seat at the UN should remain vacant for now. In an interview with The New York Times Foreign Minister said Ghulam Isaczai’s right to represent Afghanistan at the United Nations was not defensible because his government has collapsed. Ghulam Isaczai’s who so far remains the officially recognized envoy of Afghanistan at the UN, is listed to speak in the General Assembly today. Meanwhile,Read More
Countrywide Covid-19 Positivity Rate Drops To 3.6%
ISLAMABAD: The COVID-19 positivity rate has dropped down to 3.6 per cent in Pakistan during the past 24 hours. As per the latest figures released by the NCOC, 31 more people lost their lives due to COVID-19, lifting the overall death toll to 27,597. During the last 24 hours, 48,732 tests were conducted to detect the deadly virus, out of which 1,757 cases remained positive at the positivity rate of 3.6 per cent. So far, Pakistan has conducted 19,240,519 COVID-19 tests. 4,033 people are still under critical condition due toRead More