LAHORE, Nov 30 (EW): The Elections Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday announced to hold long-delayed local bodies elections in Punjab in April next year. The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by Chief Elections Commissioner (CEC) Sultan Sikandar Raja. The meeting was briefed that the top election body had to delimit the constituencies for the third time. …
Former England Test captain Joe Root on Wednesday dismissed the possibility of his team teammates falling ill due to food poisoning ahead of the first Test match in Rawalpindi, saying “it is just I think one of those things that we, unfortunately, picked up as a group”. “I don’t think it’s food poisoning or Covid or anything lke that,” …
LONDON, Nov 30 (EW): Fewer than half of people in England and Wales identify as Christian, according to census data released on Tuesday, underlining a landmark shift towards secularism in multicultural Britain. The findings from the 10-yearly census, carried out in 2021, came just over a month after Rishi Sunak become Britain’s first Hindu prime minister. They showed rapid …
QUETTA, Nov 30 (EW): Two individuals, including a police officer and a civilian, died in a suicide attack near a Balochistan Constabulary truck in Quetta’s Baleli area on Wednesday, police said. At least 24 other people sustained injuries in the attack, including 20 policemen and four civilians, according to Quetta Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP) Ghulam Azfar Mahesar. …
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29 (EW): Finance Minister Ishaq Dar announced on Tuesday that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) had transferred Rs500 million to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). “AIIB has transferred today, as per their board’s approval, to State Bank of Pakistan/Government of Pakistan $500 million as programme financing,” the minister said on Twitter. Earlier this month, the …
ISLAMABAD, November 29 (INP): Iqbal Open University will host a four days research workshop of GPE-KIX funded project, led by Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development (FIT-ED). The consortium involves Allama Iqbal Open University (Pakistan), Kathmandu University (Nepal) and the Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan (Afghanistan). The project aims to develop, test and scale a capacity …
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 29 (INP): The second conference on exploration of China-Pakistan tropical arid non-wood forest science and technology exchange cooperation in Gwadar was held online. According to Gwadar Pro on Tuesday, theme of the second conference was on highly efficient water and soil conversion plants. Two research fellows, Ms Razia Junaid and Ms Misbah Amin presented their research papers. …
KARACHI, Nov 29 (FD): All 26 MPAs of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Sindh Assembly have submitted their resignations to the party’s parliamentary leader Khurram Sher Zaman on Monday at the directives of former prime minister and party chief Imran Khan. Khurram, while confirming the development, said that Sindh Assembly Opposition Leader Haleem Adil Sheikh is also aware of the situation …
ISLAMABAD, Nov 28 (EW): The Canadian government has decided to move the visa processing centre back to its high commission in Islamabad from Abu Dhabi, in what is said to be an achievement on the diplomatic front for the South Asian country. Relocation of the visa office will enable Canadian immigration officials to ascertain the credentials of applications within …
RAWALPINDI, Nov 28 (APP): The City Traffic Police (CTP) Rawalpindi on Monday finalized the traffic arrangements for Pak-England cricket matches and facilitate the motorists. According to a CTP spokesman, the practice session of the Pakistan and England cricket teams is to start today here at the Pindi Cricket Stadium, Double Road. Under the traffic plan devised on the orders …