Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
PRCS launches Red Million Movement to mobilize one million youth
ISLAMABAD, AUG 5 /DNA/ – The Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) today launched its flagship ‘Red Million Movement’, a nationwide initiative to mobilize, engage, and empower one million youth and volunteers to strengthen humanitarian action across Pakistan. The initiative aims to inspire citizens, particularly young people, to become agents of positive change by promoting volunteerism, community resilience, and humanitarian values in line with the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The launch ceremony was held at the PRCS National Headquarters in Islamabad and attended byRead More
Embassy of Pakistan in Beijing observes Youm-e-Istehsal Kashmir
BEIJING, AUG 5: /DNA/ – The Embassy of Pakistan in Beijing observed Youm-e-Istehsal-e-Kashmir today to reaffirm Pakistan’s unwavering political, diplomatic and moral support for the just struggle of the Kashmiri people for the realization of their inalienable right to self-determination. Youm-e-Istehsal-e-Kashmir is observed on 5 August every year to denounce India’s illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019 in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). A solemn ceremony was held at the Embassy. Messages of the President of Pakistan, the Prime Minister, and the Deputy Prime Minister andRead More
Türkiye to reintegrate PKK militants
ANKARA: /DNA/ – Turkiye’s ruling alliance submitted a draft law to parliament on Wednesday meant to achieve peace with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in part by protecting many former militants from prosecution, and suspending prison sentences for many of those convicted of membership. The bill, which is expected to pass the assembly later this week, aims to end a decades-old conflict in part by facilitating the return to Turkiye of potentially thousands of former PKK militants based in northern Iraq. Turkiye’s intelligence agency MIT would verify the group’s disarmamentRead More
Search teams recover famed climber Purja’s body and 3 others
DNA ISLAMABAD: Search teams backed by military helicopters recovered the bodies of renowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja and three other missing climbers on Wednesday, bringing the number of bodies recovered from Broad Peak to seven nearly a week after an avalanche swept away a 10-member international expedition, officials said Wednesday. The Alpine Club of Pakistan said the operation was one of the most technically demanding recovery missions ever carried out on the mountain. It said the bodies of Purja, Chinese climber Zhong Wang and Nepali climbers Nima Sherpa and KiluRead More
ICCI President inaugurates GOPKZ Industry Connect
ISLAMABAD, AUG 5 /DNA/ – President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), Sardar Tahir Mehmood, has said that Pakistan’s economic transformation depends on building stronger linkages between industry, innovation, investment and entrepreneurship, stressing that collaborative platforms are essential for creating a competitive and globally connected economy. He expressed these views while addressing the soft opening and cake-cutting ceremony of GOPKZ Industry Connect as the chief guest here at the Chamber House on Wednesday. Welcoming participants, Sardar Tahir Mehmood said that Pakistan’s private sector possesses the resilience, talent and entrepreneurialRead More
Crop management from August to November under changing climatic conditions: strategies for sustainable agricultural production in Pakistan
BY: Dr. Qudsia Nazir | Dr. Muhammad Aftab | Dr. Aneela Riaz Introduction Climate change has become one of the most significant challenges to global agricultural sustainability, because it plays a fundamental role in ensuring food security, sustaining rural livelihoods, and supporting economic development. However, climate change has emerged as the extreme threat to agricultural sustainability in the present century. Rising global temperature, changing rainfall patterns, increasing level of atmospheric CO2 concentration and the growing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events including heat waves, floods, droughts, hailstorms andRead More