Chinese companies assure all-out support for CPEC: Khalid

BEIJING – February 4 (ONLINE): Special Assistant to Prime Minister on China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Affairs Khalid Mansoor has said the Chinese companies have assured their full support to second phase of the CPEC project. Talking to Pakistan’s state television in Beijing on Friday […]

Hockey Olympian handed ten-year ban for criticizing PM

ISLAMABAD – February 4 (ONLINE): Former Olympian Rashid-ul-Hassan has been awarded with a ten-year ban for criticizing Prime Minister Imran Khan on a social media platform, it emerged Friday. According to media reports, the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) banned Olympian for his ‘abusive’ language against […]

Depression, anxiety double in youth compared to pre-pandemic

ISLAMABAD, Feb 04 (APP): Depression and anxiety symptoms have doubled in children and adolescents when compared to pre-pandemic times, according to an alarming study. Researchers at the University of Calgary, Canada conducted a meta-analysis, pooling together data from 29 separate studies from around the world, […]

ANF seizes drugs worth 243 million dollars

ISLAMABAD – February 4 (ONLINE): The Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) has grabbed 4073.2 kilograms of drugs, worth 243.82 million dollars, an ANF statement said Friday. The Anti Narcotics Force held 46 suspects during operation impounded 14 vehicles, the statement added. ANF Balochistan chapter seized 2607 […]

Talks with TTP have failed: Sheikh Rashid

ISLAMABAD, Feb 04 (Online): Interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said talks with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have failed and the terrorists who are under the influence of India and anti Pakistan forces are active in Pakistan at present and steps have been taken to deal […]

Four dead, one missing in Austria avalanche

Vienna, Feb 4 (AFP/APP): Four people died and one was missing Friday after several avalanches struck Austria’s Tyrol province, the rescue services said. “It was one of 13 avalanches today in Tyrol… It happened off-piste” near the border with Switzerland, Patrick Ortler from the province’s […]

Cultivation of Moringa tree tested in Balochistan

QUETTA, Feb 04 (APP): For the first time, cultivation of Moringa tree has been successfully tested on five acres of land in Lasbella district of Balochistan, Director Wayaro Research Farm Waqar Lasi said on Friday. While briefing the Secretary Agriculture Omid Ali Khokhar and DG […]

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