Asteroid twice the size of Big Ben skims past Earth on January 20, 2020NASA is closely monitoring an asteroid with an estimated diameter of about 755 feet – larger than the Golden Gate Bridge tower or more than twice the height of London’s Big Ben – that was heading towards Earth and expected to skim past the planet on Monday. Flying towards the planet at a speed of […]
Munir Akram to replace Maleeha Lodhi as Pakistan’s UN envoy on October 1, 2019Pakistan on Monday appointed Ambassador Munir Akram as Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations in New York, in place of Dr Maleeha Lodhi. Munir Akram had already served as Pakistan Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2002-2008 after serving on the similar position to the UN in Geneva from 1995 to 2002. […]
Pakistan likely to pay back IMF before Chinese debt: US official on November 29, 2018Pakistan is likely to pay off an International Monetary Fund bailout before its loans from China come due, easing concerns that IMF funds will be used to pay back Chinese creditors, the US Treasury’s top diplomat said on Tuesday. David Malpass, the Treasury’s undersecretary for international affairs, told a US Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing […]