Sunday, January 21st, 2024
Pakistan fails to qualify for hockey Olympics
Germany, England qualify for Olympics DNA MUSCAT: Pakistan failed to qualify for France Olympics when New Zealand beat Pakistan by 3 goals to 2. After this win over Pakistan New Zealand has qualified for the Olympic games. This is for the third time that Pakistan, a former Olympic champion, could not qualify for the Olympics. England and Germany are the two other teams which have qualified. The hockey lovers have expressed shock over the dismal performance of the team and have demanded of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, who happensRead More
China-Pak companies sign $43 mln new energy order
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 21 (DNA): Pakistan’s leading distributor of solar energy products, MaxPower signed a USD 43 million order with China’s new energy company, CHISAGE ESS. According to CHISAGE, they have supplied over 300,000 units of inverters and will provide a full range of low-voltage single-phase and three-phase hybrid inverters as part of the order. In March 2023, MaxPower showcased the prototype of CHISAGE ESS hybrid inverters at 12th International Renewable Energy Exhibition and Conference in Pakistan, drawing the attention of numerous local dealers, traders, and EPC companies. Both sides haveRead More
SJC view sought on complaints against judges, says CJP
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa on Saturday revealed that he has sought opinion on complaints against 100 superior court judges which were pending before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) for quite some time. Though the CJP did not name anyone, he said he had forwarded the complaints on misconduct to senior members of the SJC to consider and render their opinion. Legal experts believe that such a large figure of complaints must have sent a chilling effect amongst the judiciary since the number encompassed almost theRead More
President for blacklisting proven bank fraudsters, directs banks to refund Rs 2.74 million to fraud victims
DNA ISLAMABAD, 21: President Arif Alvi has asked the Banking Mohtasib to take up the matter of banking frauds with the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to get essential SOPs issued so that proven fraudulent personnel’s CNICs could be blacklisted, placed at Central negative list, and no Banking/financial facility could be extended to them by the Banking industry. The President issued these directions while rejecting two separate representations filed by the United Bank Ltd (UBL) and Bank Alfalah Ltd (BAL) directing the banks to pay Rs 1.9 million and RsRead More
Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar: future of Pak-Iran relations
Waheed Hussain It takes years to turn an enemy into a friend, but a single wrong act takes seconds to make close friend a foe. This is what the Iran has done against a neighbour-Muslim country Pakistan. How Iran could conceive an idea of attacking Pakistan? From where the advice came? Why Irani leadership failed to analyze and judge the worst consequences of that illegal action? Why Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was in Tehran, just a day before the attack? What was the objective of that immature and heinousRead More
Climate Challenges in the Gulf Arab States
Dr. Muhammad Akram Zaheer The world is getting hotter because of human activities and it is causing problems like heat waves, floods and droughts. The United Nations says we need to cut the pollution that causes this by half in the next 10 years and completely stop it by around 2050. Many countries, including five in the Gulf Arab region, have promised to do this, but there is still a big gap between what needs to be done and what’s happening now. To reach these goals, we need to useRead More