ISLAMABAD – The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday ruled out any backdoor diplomacy brokered by the United Arab Emirates between Pakistan and India. At a weekly news briefing in Islamabad, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch dismissed any such development taking place. “At this ...

ISLAMABAD – At least 20 Pakistani universities have made it to UI GreenMetric World University Rankings 2022. The UI GreenMetric rankings assess and compare campus sustainability efforts. The criteria for the ranking of educational institutions include campus setting and infrastructure, energy ...

The Asian Development Bank has approved $554 funds for Pakistan to assist it in its post-floods rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Monday. The ADB will provide $3 million in technical assistance while the Government of Japan is providing $5 million. The ...

KARACHI – Pakistan and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) have signed an agreement for $500 million loan that will provide a breathing room to under-pressure economy of the South Asian country. The AIIB is providing the loan under the Building Resilience with Active Countercyclical ...

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have expressed the determination to further strengthen their multidimensional partnership with chief focus on trade, investment, development and people-to-people ties between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. This was the outcome of a meeting between Prime Minister Shehbaz ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Monday praised the adoption of its proposal by the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference, COP27 summit, of a funding plan to help climate-affected countries cope with surging losses. Climate negotiators agreed to start discussions on “Matters Relating to Funding ...

Pakistan will ask international lenders for billions of dollars worth of new loans to rebuild the country after calamitous floods uprooted 33mn people and pushed its cash-strapped economy even closer to insolvency, reported Financial Times link. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was ...

Federal Cabinet agreed in principle to the proposal to change the definition of the 'federal government'. According to the sources, the federal cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif discussed the 5-point agenda and ratified the decisions of the Economic Coordination ...

Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar has called for greater policy support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and multilateral donors in the backdrop of the climate-induced catastrophe and losses suffered by the country. The minister was addressing a meeting ...

KARACHI – Nobel prize winner and social activist Malala Yousufzai reached Pakistan on Tuesday to visit the flood-hit areas of the country. Malala landed in Karachi along with her parents amid tight security. Nobel laureate and girls' education campaigner is visiting the flood-affected areas ...