ISLAMABAD, June 7 (INP): Pakistan has received $ 347.6 million as Foreign Direct Investment from China in the first 10 months of Fiscal Year 2022-23 (July 2022-April 2023), according to the latest statistics of the Board of Investment Pakistan (BOI). According to BOI, during April Pakistan received another $ 28.4 million from China, bringing the total Chinese FDI during the ongoing financial …
BEIJING, June 7 (INP): Pakistan and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for bilateral cooperation in the utilization and sustainable development of water resources and environmental protection. According to Gwadar Pro, the MOU covers wide areas of cooperation including water conservation, watershed planning, flood control and drought relief, development of water resources, management and operation of water projects, …
ISLAMABAD, June 6 (INP): Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, Senator Sherry Rehman, Tuesday urged the nation to action now to collect, recycle, and re-use to minimize use of plastics in daily life. She said that Pakistan already lags behind the world’s 9% plastic recycling with only 3 to 4% recycling of its 400 million tons of …
Islamabad, June 6 (INP): In a groundbreaking development, approximately “12 MW” of electricity has been approved for New Gwadar International Airport (NGIA) to fulfil all its electricity needs for 24 hours without any interruption. On special directives of the Ministry of Planning, Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO), National Power Distribution Company that deals with the power supply system in Baluchistan, has formally sanctioned 12 MW to energize New Gwadar International Airport (NGIA) and has commenced full-scale execution by deputing its special teams on the site. QESCO official told Gwadar Pro that tenting and commissioning process is likely to be completed within 10 days as all required paraphernalia like poll erections, transmission lines, and electrical input and output circuits have already been aligned with the installed power system. To keep power supply smooth and free from power breakdown, 12 MW will remain available to NGIA round the clock as three power transmission lines will be feeding NGIA. “It means if one goes out of function then the second will be automatically connected and if the second goes haywire then the third will be present in the system as a backup arrangement,” he added Explaining the three power transmission lines, he said: “One power supply is coming from a 286-kilometre long, 132kV dual-circuit transmission line through Naal-Basima-Naag-Panjgur, the second is coming from the Mund-Pishin-Turbat transmission line to Gwadar Grid Station and the third comes from the Gabd-Remden power transmission line to Jiwini-Gwadar Grid Station.” With the completion of the electrification process, NGIA is expected to be welcoming national and international flights in the mid of September this year, marking a new era of the modern airway that will connect the world with Gwadar. Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) official told Gwadar Pro that the entire scope of work of New Gwadar International Airport including civil work, structural work, mechanical work and engineering work (except navigational & communication work) is almost complete. Under-constructed New Gwadar International Airport is located 26km northeast of the existing airport in Gwadar City on the south-western Arabian Sea coast of the Balochistan region. The New Gwadar International Airport project kicked off as an early harvest high-priority project of the CPEC programme in 2014.
ISLAMABAD, Jun. 6 (INP): Smart Classroom project under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been inaugurated at University of Education, Lahore. The project is part of the ‘Smart Universities: Transformation through Smart Classrooms’ under the CPEC. It aims at strengthening online and distance learning in the higher education sector in Pakistan, according to a report published by Gwadar Pro on Tuesday. …
ISLAMABAD, Jun. 6 (INP): Smart Classroom project under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been inaugurated at University of Education, Lahore. The project is part of the ‘Smart Universities: Transformation through Smart Classrooms’ under the CPEC. It aims at strengthening online and distance learning in the higher education sector in Pakistan, according to a report published by Gwadar Pro on Tuesday. …
ISLAMABAD June 05 (EW): Society for the Protection of the Rights of Child (SPARC) issued a press release to highlight Tobacco industry’s mischievous ways to earn additional profits from tobacco users. According to the health activists, government should be earning additional revenues from increased tobacco taxation not tobacco industry. Malik Imran, Country Head Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, said …
KARACHI, Jun. 4 (INP): “It is hoped that Pakistani young students can be the inheritors of China-Pakistan friendship, the enhancers of the development of China and Pakistan, to convey the friendship of ‘higher than the mountain, deeper than the sea and sweeter than honey’ in Chinese language,” said Yang Yundong, Chinese Consul General in Karachi. During the Karachi Division …
Islamabad, June 3 (INP): In a significant milestone, the Gwadar Port achieved a momentous feat by commencing its first-ever direct export to China last week. Five containers laden with raw pharmaceutical materials departed from the Gwadar Free Zone en route to Tianjin, bustling Chinese port city and will reach China in June. Gwadar Pro reported on Saturday that there will be …
ISLAMABAD, June 2 (EW): Health activists have appreciated Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s directives to curb down illegal trade of tobacco products in Pakistan. In a press release shared by Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC), the health activists mentioned that Federal Board of Revenue’s Track and Trace system has kept illicit trade from going …