Pak HC to Rwanda, foreign ministry delegation visit SCCI By: APP on June 25, 2023Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Rwanda Naeemullah Khan, along with a delegation of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visited the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), here on Saturday. SCCI President Abdul Ghafoor Malik, Senior Vice President Wahub Jahangir and Vice President Amir Majeed Sheikh welcomed the guests. During a meeting, the SCCI president emphasised the […]
Tracking invests in Ozoned Digital to expand operations in for Saudi Arabia By: pr on June 25, 2023Ozoned Digital today announced an investment by Tracking, to help strategically expand its operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ozoned Digital will work with Tracking, along with other stakeholders in KSA, to launch various digital insurance initiatives for the Insurance Industry including IoT driven Telematics Insurance Solutions. “With a corporate vision to be at […]
APEC CEO Summit leads to high-level trade liberalization: report By: Agencies on June 25, 2023This year’s APEC CEO summit has been a big leap towards more collaborative efforts for high-level trade liberalization in the region after the removal of COVID-related restrictions. Last week, key trade officials and visionary business titans, from China and the Asia Pacific region, converged at the illustrious 2023 APEC China CEO Summit in Beijing. Under […]
2,800 farmers to be imparted training for olive grafting, plantation By: APP on June 25, 2023The federal government has launched a plan to train 2800 farmers and workers through 47 different programmes for early completion over 1.2 million olive sapling plantation across the country. The initiative has been taken in a bid to strengthen efforts to enhance production of domestic edible oil and reducing reliance on the imported commodity, sources […]
Intercity subway links economic powerhouses in east China By: xinhua on June 25, 2023On Saturday, Line 11 of the Suzhou metro went into operation, linking the city of Suzhou, a major GDP contributor in east China’s Jiangsu Province, with Shanghai, another economic heavyweight in the region. This is the first time that the core cities in the Yangtze River Delta region have linked their separate urban subway systems […]
PACT WITH INTERNATIONAL LENDER TO BE MADE PUBLIC: IMF deal: Rs 215bn new taxes on the way By: APP on June 25, 2023Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Ishaq Dar on Saturday informed the National Assembly that Pakistan had agreed on Rs 215 billion taxes after three-day parleys with the officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to complete the 9th review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF), pending due to the country’s external financing gap. “As […]
Pakistan to fulfill all IMF commitments By: APP on June 25, 2023Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a meeting with Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva in Paris on Friday and reiterated the resolve of Pakistan to complete the loan programme with the financial institution. The PM met the IMF chief before leaving for London. It was his third meeting with the IMF chief, […]
India martyrs two Pakistanis in unprovoked firing at LoC By: Agencies on June 25, 2023Two Pakistani civilians embraced martyrdom while another sustained injuries as they came under the Indian army fire in the Sattwal Sector from across the Line of Control (LoC), according to the military’s media wing. In a statement on Saturday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said, “Indian Army, in a display of its usual inhumane approach […]
Rebel Russian mercenaries retreat after Putin warning By: Agencies on June 25, 2023Mutinous Russian mercenary fighters who surged most of the way to Moscow have agreed to turn back to avoid bloodshed, their leader said on Saturday, in a de-escalation of what had become a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power. The fighters of the Wagner private army run by former Putin ally Yevgeny […]
Miftah quits all PML-N positions, active politics By: Agencies on June 25, 2023Former finance minister Miftah Ismail on Saturday resigned from his positions in the PML-N, making official “what is already true and move on” and voiced his intent to no longer remain active in electoral politics, a private TV channel reported. In the resignation letter, Ismail said: “Given the upcoming reorganisation of the party structure, I […]