Monday, November 8th, 2021
Sustainability: building cities for the future
Farzeen Shah ISLAMABAD: More than half of the world’s population lives in cities and as per United Nations Development Program (UNDP), two-third of the world population will be urban by 2050. This rapid urbanization, infrastructure development, and expansion of cities have resulted in serious environmental hazards such as Urban Heat Island effect, increase in greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and noise pollution. Therefore, SDG 11 which states, ‘Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable’ holds immense significance in today’s world. For a city to be well developed,Read More
Soft loans worth Rs 30 bln approved under Kamyab Jawan Programme: Usman Dar
ISLAMABAD, 08 Nov 2021: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Youth Affairs Muhammad Usman Dar on Monday said the partner banks of the Kamyab Jawan Programme (KJP) had so far approved soft loans amounting to Rs 30 billion under the Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme (YES). Addressing the Kamyab Jawan Convention jointly organized by Islamabad Chamber Chamber of Commerce commerce (ICCI) and Kamyab Jawan Program in ICCI Auditorium, the SAPM said total allocation for the KJP’s loan scheme was Rs 100 billion. He said the government was striving to facilitateRead More
Turkey pledges everlasting solidarity with Azerbaijani brothers on first anniversary of Karabakh victory
ANKARA, NOV 8: Turkey on Monday marked the anniversary of Azerbaijan‘s victory in Karabakh, expressing everlasting solidarity with the brotherly country. “We are celebrating the victory of Azerbaijan‘s 44-day Patriotic War, which was crowned by liberation of the cultural capital of ancient Shusha on November 8 last year,” said a Foreign Ministry statement. Noting that Azerbaijan used its “right to self-defense to regain its occupied lands,” the Foreign Ministry said the country was able to ratify its victory on the ground via the trilateral declaration signed on Nov. 9. Turkey also welcomed the return of “1 million forcibly displaced AzerbaijaniRead More
Australia to tour Pakistan next year for first time since 1998
ISLAMABAD, NOV 8: Australia will tour Pakistan in March and April next year — the country’s first since 1998 — to play a series of Test, ODI and T20 matches, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Monday. In a statement, the PCB said the visiting team will play three Tests, three one day internationals (ODIs) and one Twenty-20 international (T20I) match. The Test matches will be played in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore from March 3 to 25, the PCB said, adding that all four white-ball matches will be played inRead More
NAB apprehended untouchables for the first time: Chairman
Islamabad, Nov 8 /DNA/ – Justice Javed Iqbal, Chairman NAB chaired a meeting to review overall performance of NAB at NAB Headquarters. He said that NAB has apprehended untouchables and big fish for the first time in its history and brought them to justice for logical conclusion of cases as per law during the tenure of the present management of NAB from Oct 2017 to Oct 10, 2021. He said that NAB is determined for logical conclusion of mega corruption cases of money laundering, Fake Accounts, Assets beyond known sources of Income, Cheating public at large, housing societies and Modarba casesRead More
Fuzuli Airport – the pride of Karabakh
It is one of the country’s seven international airports. The airport is built on an airdrome abandoned for almost 30 years and surrounded by former minefields. It was constructed at a cost of 75 million manats ($44 million) DNA FUZULI, AZERBAIJAN: Pakistani media delegation that is currently on Azerbaijan trip was taken to newly-inaugurated Fuzuli Airport, located in the heart of formerly Nagorno Karabakh area. After Armenian defeat the region is now called Karabakh. The town of Fuzuli was damaged badly during the war however the Azerbaijan administration has doneRead More