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Islamabad, December 24,2022: United Nations Development Program UNDP-Pakistan and UNDP-Somalia have organized a first-ever Somalia-Pakistan Ministerial Study Tour on Federalism, Devolution and State-Building from December 20 to 27, 2022. The team will stay in Islamabad, attend seminars and learning sessions, and visit various institutions such […]

Montevideo, Dec 14 (AFP/APP): Peru has descended into protests since the country’s legislature last week threw out leftist president Pedro Castillo after he tried to dissolve Congress and rule by decree. Here is a timeline of the most recent upheaval in a country that has […]

ISLAMABAD, Dec 13 (ONLINE):Due to the fact that the average lifespan of people in the U.S. has increased over recent decades, some experts project that by 2050, the number of older adults with dementia could reach 13.8 millionTrusted Source. Figures of this stature spark justifiable […]

BONN 07 Dec (Online): Periods, sex, body shaming, harassment, misogyny, dating: These are not topics of discussion that are openly discussed in Pakistani households or amongst friends. But packaged as comedy, the taboo themes elicit raucous laughter and cheers in packed auditoriums. Families, couples and […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 05 (APP):More than one in five people employed – almost 23 per cent – have experienced violence and harassment in the workplace, whether physical, psychological or sexual, according to the first-ever joint study carried out by the International Labour Organization (ILO), a […]

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Assalam-o-alaikum and Good Evening! First of all, I would like to extend my warmest welcome to you at my residence tonight. This reception is exclusively arranged for the journalist friends. I have waited for this occasion to welcome you since my arrival in Islamabad last […]

Le VerdonsurMer, France, Dec 2 (AFP/APP): France marks next week the 80th anniversary of a daring World War II raid by British Royal Marines, who slipped past German patrols up the Gironde estuary to mine crucial supply ships. Dubbed “The Cockleshell Heroes” in a 1950s […]

Working against the time, Asad Khan, hardly a 12-year-old mechanic, was busy like a honeybee repairing water geysers, batteries, heaters and other electric appliances scattered all around him in his small workshop to meet the placed orders in wake of declining mercury levels in Peshawar. […]

Warsaw, Nov 27 (AFP/APP):As a refugee herself, Anna Lysenko finds it cathartic to be playing the character of a Ukrainian woman forced to flee her homeland in a new production in Warsaw. “You open your soul. Those emotions, the pain that is in you, you […]