Saturday, July 23rd, 2022
Erdoğan calls on Russia and Ukraine to end 5-month-old war
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on Russia and Ukraine to end the 5-month-old war while hoping the Ukraine grain export deal will be a ‘milestone’ for peace between the two nations. Russia and Ukraine signed a deal on Friday to reopen grains exports from Ukrainian Black Sea ports in an agreement that U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said would help ease a global food crisis. Government ministers from Russia and Ukraine signed the deal separately, carefully avoiding sitting at the same table and avoiding shaking hands at the event in Istanbul. Erdoğan said the deal, also signedRead More
Kaira backs Mazari’s ruling in Punjab CM election
ISLAMABAD, Jul 23 (DNA): Advisor to the Prime Minister on Kashmir Affairs Qamar Zaman Kaira on Saturday endorsed the ruling of deputy speaker Punjab assembly Dost Mohammad Mazari in the election of chief minister Punjab. “What Mazari has done, it was as per law and the constitution,” he said while addressing a press conference here.Kaira said the Punjab Assembly deputy speaker had rejected the vote of Pakistan Muslim League Q party members in light of the apex court decisions. The members of the political parties were bound to follow theRead More
Imran’s mismanagement created economic ‘tsunami’: Sherry
ISLAMABAD, Jul 23 /DNA/ – Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman on Saturday in her response to former prime minister Imran Khan’s tweet said his fascist agenda of massive debt, mismanagement and violent division of society has created an economic “tsunami” in the country. The federal minister in flurries of tweets on her official Twitter handle lambasted the former premier. Sherry wrote, “The country has been damaged not by your opponents but by your worst regime. The economic disaster you created has hit Pakistan like a tidal wave”.Read More
Hamza Shahbaz elected as CM Punjab in accordance with SC’ verdict
ISLAMABAD, Jul 23 (DNA): Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Saturday said that Hamza Shehbaz was elected Chief Minister of Punjab as a result of the implementation of the Supreme Court verdict. She said that Supreme Court in its verdict had given the authority of vote only to the party chief. She said that the President Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain had issued the same instructions to his party MPAs that Imran Khan had issued. She advised Imran Khan to accept the decision of the SupremeRead More
Anjum Nisar, Faheem Saigol ask govt to take economic crisis seriously
ISLAMABAD, JUL 23 /DNA/ – The Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has demanded of the government to establish an Economic Crisis Management Board in close consultation with the business community, in line with the National Command and Operations Center (NCOC) formed in corona virus period or National Disaster Management Authority formed in flood emergency, as the country has been facing severe economic crisis mainly due to political instability. PIAF Chairman Faheem Ur Rehman Saigol, accompanied by the PIAF patron-in-chief and Businessmen Panel (BMP) Chairman Mian Anjum Nisar, while addressing aRead More
Evidence-informed dialogue to harmonize Pak-Afghan relations for long-term peace stressed
Islamabad, July 23: /DNA/ – The nationalist identities of Afghanistan and Pakistan are perpetually at loggerheads with each other due to ontological insecurities of both, causing serious repercussions on the population on both sides of the Durand Line. The resolution of these chronic issues requires evidence-informed dialogue among all stakeholders, especially literati and media, to gain mutual respect to shun historical differences for long-term peace and cooperation, which is a dire need of the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan.The thoughts were reflected during an academic session, titled ‘Ontological (In)securities ofRead More