Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
FM Qureshi inaugurates 8th meeting of the Istanbul Process, hosted by Pakistan
Staff Reporter Islamabad: Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi inaugurated the 8th meeting of the Istanbul Process, themed “10th anniversary of UN Human Rights Council resolution 16/18: Looking Back and Moving Forward.” The meeting is being hosted on a virtual platform by Pakistan from Geneva. In his key-note address, the Foreign Minister highlighted that securitization of state policies, deployment of incendiary rhetoric by public office holders, and misuse of social media platforms as the main drivers of the growing incidents towards religious intolerance, discrimination and violence worldwide. The Foreign MinisterRead More
PAJCCI signs MoU with Lahore Chamber, Afghanistan Chamber
LAHORE /DNA/ – PAJCCI’s efforts in strengthening B2B relationship between Pakistan & Afghanistan bore fruits when participants at first part of current stakeholder meeting jointly agreed to sign MOU between PAJCCI, ACCI & LCCI for joint collaboration for economic connectivity. Co-Chairman PAJCCI, Khan Jan Alokozai appreciated the PAJCCI’s continuous & practical efforts in reaching the goals of its formation by providing a forum where Pakistan & Afghanistan’s various Chambers can work together and expand the trade volume not only between two countries but CAR and beyond. He informed the forumRead More
Standard of development projects, Sindh first, Balochistan second
Mumtaz Ahmed Bhatti Every year, federal and provincial governments across Pakistan make development plans and start working on them at a cost of trillions of rupees. It is important to make development plans and start their construction, but maintaining the quality of development projects and bringing development projects to completion according to the set standards is a very important and difficult task. Completing development projects under construction on time is an even more difficult task. But unfortunately the set standards are not maintained and no development project is completed onRead More
Vietnam to re-open to tourists after two-year closure
Hanoi, Feb 16: Vietnam will re-open to international tourists on March 15 after a two-year border closure due to the pandemic, the government said Wednesday. The Southeast Asian nation of 97 million people largely closed itself in March 2020 — a move that clobbered its burgeoning tourism sector which was worth $32 billion a year before Covid. Authorities said in a statement Wednesday they would begin issuing visas and accepting foreign arrivals from the middle of next month. The announcement comes a day after the communist country lifted allRead More
ACCELERATE SUSTAINABLE ACTIONS TO COMBAT IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON GLOBAL PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH
By: Zahra Ali Khan The new Covid SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has been recorded as extraordinary in late history, leaving a worldwide impact including high paces of mortality and severe psychological deterioration, economic recession, and supported social confinement for billions of individuals. The impact this emergency has had on populace psychological well-being, both in the short-and long term is obscure. There is negligible amount of proof with regards to the intense stage emotional wellness effects of huge scope pandemics across networks. Assembling early proof of the effects of COVID-19 is crucialRead More
Point of no return
Dr M Ali Hamza A specific altitude, at a specific speed, beyond which the airplane cannot be saved and when the crash is imminent is called point of no return. This term is very well known to pilots and especially air force pilots. However, this term is not only limited to flying. In everyday life, during the course of making decisions, one often comes across the point of no return. Beyond a certain point in time, it becomes impossible for you to control the consequences. Once you commit your firstRead More