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India can never suppress freedom struggle of Kashmir: Asad Umar

ISLAMABAD, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiative, Asad Umar on Thursday said India could not suppress Kashmiris’ struggle for freedom even if it tried for next seventy years. Sharing a video of Kashmiri children, who were chanting anti-India and pro-freedom slogans besides parsing […]

India can never suppress freedom struggle of Kashmir: Asad Umar

ISLAMABAD, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiative, Asad Umar on Thursday said India could not suppress Kashmiris’ struggle for freedom even if it tried for next seventy years. Sharing a video of Kashmiri children, who were chanting anti-India and pro-freedom slogans besides parsing […]

Green line BRT to start from October: Asad Umar

ISLAMABAD, Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Tuesday said the Green Line Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT) service in Karachi would become operational by October this year. “Prime Minister Imran Khan reviewed progress of five federal projects in Karachi transformation plan […]

Asad Umar asks Shahbaz Sharif to keep CPEC out of politics

ISLAMABAD, Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar Saturday asked President Pakistan Muslim League (N) Shahbaz Sharif to keep the national project of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) away from his politics. In his tweet, the minister said Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government […]

Asad Umar for expediting pace of work on CPEC projects

ISLAMABAD, Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar directed on Monday to expedite pace of work on the ongoing projects of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Chairing the second meeting of the Pak-China relations steering committee here, the minister reviewed the ongoing projects […]

Highest PSDP spending in FY20-21 since 2011-12: Asad Umar

Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar Tuesday said the total spending under Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) in the year 2020-21 exceeded the target set for the corresponding year by Rs 9 billion to Rs 659 billion. “Total PSDP spending in 2020-21 […]

Vaccination lowers risk of corona virus by 7 times: Asad Umar

ISLAMABAD, Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar Friday said the people with both doses of vaccine against COVID have seven times lower risk of getting virus as compared to those who were not vaccinated. Even the people with first dose have four […]

COVID patients’ inflow in hospitals increasing rapidly: Asad Umar

Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar Thursday said the number of COIVD patients in hospitals was increasing rapidly. “Rapid build up starting to take place in COVID patients hospital inflow, as well as patients in critical care,” he said in a tweet […]

CPEC IT joint working group on cards: Asad Umar

ISLAMABAD, Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar Thursday said that new joint working group for information technology was being established under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework. “It has been agreed to start a new joint working group for information technology […]

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