Saturday, January 21st, 2023
CDA to resolve issues of business community in cooperation with ICCI
ISLAMABAD, JAN 21 / DNA / – CDA Member Planning Waseem Bajwa, Member Finance Mazhar Hussain Shah, Head of Treasury Mian Tariq Latif and Director Estate Zahid Ijaz Tarar visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI ) to give a presentation to the business community on CDA auction of plots scheduled to be held on January 24-26 at Jinnah Convention Center Islamabad.. The auction will include commercial, industrial, hotel, hospital, school, petrol pump, class three shopping center, farm houses and residential plots. Speaking on the occasion, Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari,Read More
Azerbaijan Embassy, IPS organize memorial for martyrs of Black January
World urged to support liberation struggles of oppressed people under international law DNA Islamabad, JAN 21: The world must condemn the brutality and violence of oppressor states as crimes against humanity and support the liberation struggle of oppressed people and their right to self-determination under international law, stated Khazar Farhadov, Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Pakistan, while paying tributes to the martyrs of the Black January massacre by Soviet troops in Azerbaijan. The remembrance session titled “The National Will and Determination of Azerbaijani People: Commemorating January 20, 1990”,Read More
FIA gives clean chit to Suleman Shehbaz in money laundering case
LAHORE, JAN 21: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday gave a clean chit to Suleman Shehbaz, son of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in the Rs16 billion money laundering case. Suleman, who returned to Pakistan earlier in December after four years of self-exile in London, was named in the corruption case registered with the FIA. His father PM Shehbaz, and brother Hamza Shahbaz had already been acquitted in the case. A special court in Lahore granted interim bail to Suleman in the money laundering case on December 23, 2022 againstRead More
PAAPAM rejects ECC decision to import second-hand tractors
ISLAMABAD, JAN 21 /DNA/ – The Pakistan Association of Autoparts & Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM) has rejected the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC)’s decision to import second-hand tractors, terming the move as totally ill-advised and dangerous, as it would be another nail in the coffin of the local auto parts and engineering industry of Pakistan. In a joint statement, issued here on Saturday, PAAPAM’s Chairman Munir K. Bana, Senior Vice Chairman Usman Aslam Malik and Vice Chairman Taufiq Sherwani, observed that this move has become the last measure to sink theRead More
China welcomes first arrivals following downgraded COVID management
By People’s Daily The first flights under China’s new COVID-19 management for international travelers arrived at airports in south China’s Guangdong province on Jan. 8, according to the national customs authority. Over 380 passengers were aboard two flights, CZ312 from Toronto to Guangzhou and ZH9024from Singapore to Shenzhen, on the day the country downgraded the management of COVID-19 to Class B and lifted certain restrictions on international passengers, a major shift of its epidemic response policies. In a statement released by China’s National Health Commission (NHC) in December 2022,inbound travelersRead More
Defaming China’s optimization in COVID-19 response exposes political prejudices of the West
By Zhong Sheng, People’s Daily China, enhancing the construction and coordination of its medical resources, has taken a series of detailed measures to protect its people’s lives and health to the fullest extent. The country has converted nucleic acid testing booths into temporary “fever clinics” and launched expansion programs for first-aid centers. It has mobilized hundreds of key enterprises to keep improving the production and supply of major medical materials and guided them to precisely distribute the materials in accordance with infection peaks in different regions. It has also workedRead More