Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
Livestock trains 7,290 farmers, students
FAISALABAD, Aug 23 (APP):An awareness campaign for livestock farmers and students was ongoing across the division in rural areas through mobile training buses of the livestock department. Director Livestock Dr Haider Ali said that livestock staff in mobile training buses visited rural areas and imparted training to farmers as well as students through documentaries and lectures. The training was being provided about feed, disease, vaccination schedule, animal care in line with weather conditions, importance of poultry, milk production, eggs, meat etc. The director said that the department conducted 292Read More
PCAA’s scope of improving air quality of Peshawar expanding scope to other districts of KP
PESHAWAR, Aug 23 (APP):A meeting of Peshawar Clean Air Alliance (PCAA), an amalgam of civil society activists, academia, researchers, environmentalists, health experts, media and policy makers, was apprised that the initiative taken by them around one and a half year earlier for improving air quality of provincial metropolis is expanding its scope to other districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “The alliance formed in June 2021 by few concerned individuals has now a list of around 111 active members while its research based report on Air Quality of Peshawar has divertedRead More
PSW holds capacity building sessions with stakeholders
ISLAMABAD, AUG 23 /DNA/ -– The Pakistan Single Window (PSW) conducted capacity-buildingsessions in Faisalabad and Gujranwala in collaboration with the All Pakistan Bedsheets & Upholstery Association of Pakistan (APBUMA) and the Seed Importers and Producers Association of Pakistan (SIPAP) as part of its Change Management component. The sessions were attended by a large number of importers and exporters transitioning to the Single Window system for cross-border trade. During the session, the PSW team gave an overview of the PSW system and explained the various features and services being offered byRead More
Pak-Iran JEC: BMP for early realization of Barter Trade Mechanism
DNA KARACHI: As Pakistan and Iran have agreed to enhance cooperation in different economic spheres in 21st session of Pak-Iran Joint Economic Commission (JEC) the Businessmen Panel (BMP) Chairman Mian Anjum Nisar has called for early implementation of Barter Trade Mechanism signed between Pakistan and Iran to jack up bilateral trade to $4 billion annually. The FPCCI former president said that Pakistan and Iran have already inked an agreement on Barter Trade Mechanism during the 9th Joint Trade Committee meeting held in Nov 2021 in Tehran where two countries hadRead More
Medicines worth over Rs 15 million being dispatched to flood hit areas, says Patel
ISLAMABAD, Aug 23 (APP):Minister for National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination Abdul Qadir Patel on Tuesday said that the necessary medicines valuing over Rs 15 million, and other relief items including 0.6 million medicated mosquito nets were being dispatched to flood hit areas of Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab within the next few days. Talking to media persons, he said his ministry was making extraneous efforts to help flood hit people in distress. Giving details of the relief work he said: “A 12-member team of doctors has already been sentRead More