Ukraine’s Western allies pledged an additional one billion euros ($1.1 billion) in emergency winter aid on Tuesday, responding to pleas from President Volodymyr Zelensky to help the country withstand Russia’s onslaught against its energy grid. Around 70 countries and international organisations gathered in Paris for a meeting aimed at enabling Ukrainians “to get through this winter”, said French President …
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14 (EW): No country has used terrorism better for their benefit than India, said Minister of the State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar while addressing a press conference to share details of a dossier containing “evidence of India’s involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan”. Details of the dossier developed by Pakistan are being shared a day …
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14 (EW): Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon arrived in Pakistan on a two-day official visit at the invitation of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, ARY News reported on Wednesday. Tajik president was received by Federal Commerce Minister Syed Naveed Qamar. A twenty-one gun salute was performed to honour the visiting dignitary and a contingent of guards presented a static …
KARACHI, Dec 14 (EW): Former finance minister Miftah Ismail believes the path on which Pakistan is heading might take the country towards default as he called on the government to take steps to avert the looming threat. “Pakistan should not default”. However, I definitely believe that the path we are on might take us towards default as the economic …
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 14 (INP): Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) signed a letter of intent with Wuhan Qingfa Hesheng Seed Co., Ltd. this month on promoting MNP marker technology in Pakistan, a method to identify plant varieties, Gwadar Pro reported on Wednesday. The method, developed by Jianghan University, China, can identify seed varieties at the molecular level and construct the …
ISLAMABAD: December 14 (FD): In a dialogue arranged by Society for the Protection of Rights of the Child (SPARC), health activists raised concerns that federal cabinet has approved SRO to regularize heated tobacco products. According to tobacco control activists and health experts this decision will put Pakistani children in grave danger. Malik Imran Ahmed, Country Head, Campaign for Tobacco …
NEEWYORK, Dec 14 (Reuters): Climate change will accelerate humanitarian crisis around the world in 2023, adding to the issues created by armed conflict and economic downturns, according to a study by the NGO International Rescue Committee (IRC). The agency, based in New York and led by former UK politician David Miliband, flagged that the number of people in humanitarian …
English cricket legend Andrew Flintoff has been taken to hospital after an accident while filming for popular BBC television show “Top Gear”, British media reports said. The 45-year-old was given medical care at the scene before being transferred to hospital, the BBC news website said, adding that his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. The incident happened on …
DHAKA, Dec 13 (EW): A Bangladeshi court on Monday rejected the bail petitions of more than 200 opposition leaders and activists accused of being linked to recent clashes between Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) members and police. At least one person was killed and over a hundred injured, including dozens of police officers, in the hours-long clashes on Dec. 7 …
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 13 (INP-WealthPK) – Despite depressed economic activity, Pakistan’s glass and ceramics sector earned healthy profits during the first quarter (July-Sept) of the ongoing fiscal year 2022-23, WealthPK reports. Though inflationary pressures resulting from the economic rebound post-Covid-19 pandemic doubled the costs of sales for glass and ceramic industry, six out of seven active trading companies raised gross and …
