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NAB makes highest recoveries from businessmen, lowest from politicians

ISLAMABAD, APR 17 (DNA) — The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) made highest recoveries from businessmen and lowest from politicians through plea bargain deals and voluntary payments. According to the official document, the NAB recovered Rs17.16 billion through plea bargain and Rs7.15 billion under voluntary payments, making Rs24.31 billion the total amount of recoveries from the businessmen. Similarly, the NAB recovered Rs4.21 billion through plea bargain and Rs3.96 billion under voluntary payments from the bureaucrats, making Rs8.17 billion the amount of total recoveries. Moreover, the NAB also recovered Rs420 million throughRead More


FEBR welcomes new govt decision to keep oil rates unchanged

ISLAMABAD: The Friends of Economic and Business Reforms (FEBR) on Sunday welcomed the newly-elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s decision of keeping oil prices unchanged for the rest of the month by rejecting the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority’s proposal to raise the rates of oil products. FEBR President and LCCI former vice president Kashif Anwar observed that it was the first test for the new government to provide relief to the industry despite high oil rates in the global market. Few days after the exit of the previous government, theRead More


Gwadar University key human resource generating institution for CPEC

ISLAMABAD, April 17 (DNA): Gwadar University has turned into a key human resource generating institution for CPEC, Gwadar Pro reported on Sunday quoting Chief Secretary Balochistan Mather Niaz Rana. He was addressing the participants of Laptop Distribution Ceremony held here at University of Gwadar. On this occasion, Chief Secretary Balochistan distributes 300 laptops to university students under CM’s Balochistan laptop scheme. The event was attended by Vice-Chancellor University of Gwadar Prof. Dr. Abdul Razzaq Sabir, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 44 Special Security Division, Maj-Gen Inayat Hussain, Capt. (Ret’d) Jameel Ahmed Baloch, DeputyRead More


Climate Smart Potatoe Production

Munir Ahmed  Amazing to think about climate smart potatoes when climate action and climate smart agriculture are the buzzwords of the day. Educating the higher authorities about the informed decision making for climate smart crops and capacity building of farmers accordingly is a huge task. After the big success of Pakistan’s Climate Action – the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13, Pakistan’s focus has shifted to adapting the Climate Smart Agricultural models. Food Security is one of the key objectives of the Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) models. They areRead More


Single country exhibition in Almaty in May: envoy

Ambassador of Kazakhstan Hosts media iftar dinner DNA ISLAMABAD:  Ambassador of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Kistafin hosted Iftar dinner for the senior media people, at Islamabad Serena Hotel. The Ambassador also delivered a brief speech on the occasion and welcomed the guests. The ambassador said both Kazakhstan and Pakistan enjoyed excellent relations adding it was his earnest desire to further promote and strengthen these relations. He added, this year we will be celebrating 30 years of establishment of our bilateral relations. He announced that in May this year a single country exhibitionRead More


8th Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Central Asia + Japan Dialogue

On April 15, 2022, in the format of a videoconference, a meeting of the foreign ministers of the participating countries of the Dialogue “Central Asia + Japan” was held.During the meeting, the Foreign ministers of the member states of Dialogue discussed the issues of further strengthen cooperation between Central Asia and Japan, the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, to counter COVID-19 pandemic, strengthening border control, implementation of the  sustainable development goals in the region and cooperation in the international and regional issues.It was emphasized that Tajikistan has Read More