ISLAMABAD, May 15 (EW): With the government and the law-enforcement agencies showing a lenient view towards the activists from the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) parties, the latter entered Islamabad’s Red Zone on Monday despite imposition of Section 144 in the federal capital. A large number of PDM workers entered Islamabad’s Red Zone by foot as well as in …
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has informed the provinces that no further extension would be granted to the 7th Population and Housing Census field operations ending Monday (today). During the meeting of the Census Monitoring Committee, it has been decided that the census field operations of the country’s first-ever digital census would not be extended beyond this date …
ISLAMABAD, May 15 (EW): The first Hajj flights will depart from Islamabad and Karachi for Saudi Arabia on May 21 as the first batch of assistants will leave on May 17. According to the ministry officials, last year, 80,000 people performed the pilgrimage while the number has now swelled to 175,000 this year. Federal Minister for Religious Affairs has feared …
ANKARA, May 15 (Reuters): Turkey headed for a runoff vote after President Tayyip Erdogan led over his opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday’s election but fell short of an outright majority to extend his 20-year rule of the NATO-member country. Neither Erdogan nor Kilicdaroglu cleared the 50% threshold needed to avoid a second round, to be held on May …
The Supreme Court (SC) will take up the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) plea today (Monday) seeking to revisit its April 4 order of holding elections in Punjab as the May 14 deadline set by the top court expired on Sunday. Last month, a three-member bench of the top court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata …
ISLAMABAD, May 14 (INP): The China Exhibition and Trading Center has been completed in a record time of six months at Gwadar Port worth US$ 12 million, Gwadar Pro reported quoting Ministry of Planning’s sources. The development under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) aims to transform Gwadar into a major trade and economic hub, facilitating regional connectivity and enhancing …
ISLAMABAD, May 13 (INP): Chairman Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, the national legislature, Zhao Leji congratulated Speaker National Assembly, Raja Pervez Ashraf on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the implementation of the Constitution of Pakistan. According to Gwadar Pro on Saturday, in his message, Zhao Leji said that in past 50 years, under the guidance of the constitution, the people of Pakistan had fought steadfastly to overcome difficulties and achieved remarkable achievements in the construction and economic and social development of the country, the effective protection of national sovereignty and national dignity. He expressed the confidence that the Pakistani brothers would unite by strengthening their confidence and overcome the challenges on the way forward and start a new bright future for the country and the nation. Zhao Leji emphasized that as partners of the four seasons strategic cooperation, China and Pakistan always trust and support each other and promote the unique “iron” friendship. The National People’s Congress of China is ready to strengthen friendly exchanges with the National Assembly of Pakistan and perform new services to increase friendship and promote mutual cooperation between the two countries and the two peoples, he added
ISLAMABAD, May 13 (INP): “There is a huge potential for cooperation between China and Pakistan in the rose industry,” highlighted Naeem Iqbal Cheema, Political Counsellor at Embassy of Pakistan, Beijing at the 2023 Rose products Expo held in Pingyin county, China, Gwadar Pro reported on Saturday. At the opening ceremony of the expo, the “Belt and Road Initiative” rose …
A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday granted PTI Chairman Imran Khan two-week bail in the Al-Qadir Trust case, a day after the Supreme Court termed his arrest from the IHC premises “invalid and unlawful”. A division bench comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz heard the PTI chief’s bail plea at …
Islamabad, May 12 (INP): It seems that economics of humanity is at the lowest ebbs in the priority list of the US foreign policy which has intentionally imposed unilateral sanctions on other developing countries just to secure its own so-called socio-economic, geopolitical and geostrategic vested interests. In this regard, according an article carried by Gwadar Pro on Friday, unfortunately Afghanistan has been in the line of fire because of the US military misadventures and subsequent sanctions for the last twenty five years which has badly affected its national capacity building apparatus to cope with the increasing ratios of poverty, hunger, unemployment and deteriorating law & order situation. Imposition of unilateral sanctions of the US against Afghanistan has been one of the main reasons of instability, disintegration, discrimination and social division in Afghanistan. The Chinese State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Qin Gang while visiting Pakistan and chairing the trilateral dialogue between China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan on May 6th rightly projected the inhumane and indecent chronic policies of the US pertaining to sanctions against Afghanistan which widespread miseries among the general masses. …