NPMC for making efforts to avoid hoarding, black marketing, smuggling

ISLAMABAD – National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) Monday urged the provincial governments and departments concerned to make consolidated and coordinated efforts to avoid hoarding, black marketing and smuggling to ensure uninterrupted supply of basic commodities at affordable prices across the country. A meeting of National Price Monitoring […]

Graana.com, Kashmir Committee partner to host ‘Cycling Sunday’ to show solidarity with Kashmiris

ISLAMABAD -Graana.com partnered with Chairman Kashmir Committee Shehryar Khan Afridi to host ‘Cycling Sunday’ event, dedicated to showing solidarity with Kashmiris. The recreational event, under the Graana Clubs initiative, was a joint collaboration of Urban Innovation, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration, Islamabad Cycling Association, ITP, Tobacco Smoke-free Islamabad, […]

Hope fading for survival of 180 missing in Indian flood

More than 180 people are still missing in the major floods that hit northern India on Sunday, when part of the Himalayan glacier burst, officials confirmed on Tuesday, adding that the death toll has now reached 28. A portion of Nanda Devi glacier, India’s second-highest mountain, broke […]

Russia to hold conference on counter-terrorism this year

On Monday, Russia plans to hold a conference on counter-terrorism this year with the participation of representatives from Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and Turkey, a government official said. The conference is expected to be held in Moscow at the level of the heads of parliaments of these five […]

Canada’s COVAX vaccine order criticized by opposition

With Canada within hailing distance of 21,000 virus deaths Monday and experiencing a vaccine shortage, the government announced its plan to take 1.9 million doses from COVAX, the worldwide vaccine-sharing program intended mainly for poorer countries. But the decision has met with a firestorm of negativity both from within […]

UN sends 60 truckloads of aid to Idlib, Syria

On Tuesday, the UN sent 60 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Idlib, North-western Syria, where millions of people need assistance due to internal conflict in the country. The trucks carrying supplies passed through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey’s southern Hatay province. The aid will be […]

Pakistan-Turkey joint military exercise ATATURK-XI starts

Pakistan-Turkey joint military exercise ATATURK-XI has started. The opening ceremony was held at the Special Service Headquarters, Tarbela. Turkish Special Forces and Pakistan Army’s Special Service Group troops are participating in three weeks long exercise.  It includes counter terrorism, close quarter battle, cordon and search, Fire and Move […]

PM seeks Ulema’s role for intellectual revolution

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister on Monday urged religious scholars to play their due role in Pakistan’s intellectual revolution by spreading mass awareness about cleanliness, righteousness and national unity to make the country a great nation. Addressing the Ulema and Mashaikh conference here, the Prime Minister said that Pakistan […]

Army has nothing to do with politics, says DG ISPR

LAHORE – Director General Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Babar Iftikhar strongly condemned the recent wave of hearsay claiming Pakistan Army’s backdoor contacts with Pakistan Democratic Movement for making any intervention into political matters. In his response to the speculations raised by the PDM leadership to […]

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