Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
Ambassador Imran Ahmed Siddiqui highlights regional cooperation at Tehran ACD Summit
TEHRAN, /DNA/ – Additional Foreign Secretary (Asia & Pacific) Ambassador Imran Ahmed Siddiqui represented Pakistan at the 19th Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Member States of Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD), held in Tehran on 24 June 2024. He underlined the importance of promoting regional connectivity by leveraging complementarities, tapping the potential of technological zones, capacity building of human resource, enhancing access to financing, and providing a conducive environment for high-quality technology investments. Ambassador Siddiqui also called for strengthening of sub-regional dialogue and cooperation mechanisms in AsiaRead More
COMSTECH, Indonesian Embassy highlight palm oil benefits at seminar
ISLAMABAD, JUN 25 /DNA/ – The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Islamabad in collaboration with COMSTECH jointly organize the international seminar on “Sustainability of Palm Oil Industry and its Derivative Products” at COMSTECH Auditorium, Islamabad (25/6). The international seminar aimes to raise more awareness of the sustainability of the palm oil from Indonesia to the Pakistani public and maintain the awareness that the palm oil and its derivative products are not harmful to the health even beneficial for the well-being. By this seminar, more potentials are expected toRead More
ISSI’s 51st anniversary: DPM/FM Ishaq Dar articulates vision of Pakistan’s foreign policy
ISLAMABAD, JUN 25 /DNA/ – The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) celebrated the 51st anniversary of its founding today. The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, graced the occasion as Chief Guest where he dilated in detail on Pakistan’s foreign policy in a transforming world. Delivering his welcome remarks, DG ISSI Ambassador Sohail Mahmood underscored the growing impact of think-tanks and research organizations globally, stressing their pivotal role in generating research-based inputs, fostering informed dialogue, and impacting policy. Over the past five decades,Read More
‘Budget will be for babus, by babus, of babus sans political input’, Bilawal emphasises in NA speech
ISLAMABAD, JUN 25: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday reiterated the taking political input in the budget 2024-25 proposals for it to achieve targets. “If there is no political input, your budget will not work. The relief you want to give to the people won’t be possible. The ground realities that you [politicians across the board] know, none of the ‘babu’ in Islamabad know about them,” he said while speaking during the National Assembly session. “Without political input, the budget will by the babus, for the babusRead More
Drugs are at the root of immeasurable human suffering.
ISLAMABAD: Drug use eats away at people’s health and wellbeing. Overdoses claim hundreds of thousands of lives every year. Meanwhile, synthetic drugs are becoming more lethal and addictive, and the illicit drug market is breaking production records, feeding crime and violence in communities around the world. At every turn, the most vulnerable people — including young people — suffer the worst effects of this crisis. People who use drugs and those living with substance abuse disorders are victimized again and again: by the drugs themselves, by stigma and discrimination, andRead More
Azm I Istehkam: govt needs to explain further
Shamim Shahid PESHAWAR — Unlike of past, this time people from different socio-political circles from all over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa irrespective of their political identities and ideologies are opposing proposed military operation Azm-i-Istehkam against militants, mostly associated with banned TTP. Besides PTI considered biggest opposition in Upper and Lower Houses and in govern at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, other political parties like Jamiat Ul Ulema Islam f, Awami National Party and Jamaat Islami are on forefront of opposition to Azm-i-Istehkam. Similarly tribesmen from almost tribal districts badly affected by terror in last twoRead More