NEW YORK – The United Nations General Assembly on Friday passed a resolution, calling for increased global financial support after massive floods killed more than 1,700 people in Pakistan. The resolution, passed by consensus in the 193-member body, emphasized the necessity to help the flood-hit ...

Country Director Asian Development Bank (ADB), Yong Ye, called on Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Omar Ayub Khan, at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Islamabad, on Thursday. Omar Ayub Khan congratulated Yong Ye on assuming the charge of ADB Country Director in Pakistan. In the meeting, ...

BEIJING – China has rejected reports about gradually ending its financial support to Pakistan pledged under the China- Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Speaking to the media in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian states such statements as baseless. He said both ...

ISLAMABAD- Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umer has assured the government's all sort of financial support to 'Kamyab Jawan' program to make it successful. Talking to Prime Minister's Special Assistant on Youth Affairs Muhammad Usman Dar in Islamabad today [Friday], he said youth are an ...

Pakistan has announced a commitment of financial support to UN agency that assists Palestinian refugees.  Speaking at a conference held in New York, Permanent Representative of Pakistan at the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi Pakistan reaffirms its dedication to the Palestinian cause at the 2019 ...

MULTAN - Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is set to launch two more financial support programmes 'Tahafuz and Ihsas' for marginalized people, particularly widows and disabled in a couple of months after conducting a brief survey anticipated until end of April. Talking to APP here on ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan here assured the bereaved family of Shaheed Superintendent of Police (SP) Tahir Khan Dawar all possible support of the government. In a meeting with family of Shaheed Tahir Khan Dawar, the Prime Minister said that with his martyrdom, the police department was ...

BEIJING - Chairman Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani Thursday said that a Chinese company had expressed its willingness to send a technical team to Pakistan to discuss different options including financial support in the construction of much-needed Diamer-Bhasha dam. “We have held a meeting with ...

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has urged the international community to step up financial support for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in upcoming monsoon season. The appeal was made by UN under-secretary general Natalia Kanem at a press conference in Dhaka during her four-day visit to ...

The horrifying murder of a Muslim man in Rajasthan has exposed the religious intolerance growing in India also increased sense of insecurity among Muslims of India. Now the Indian Muslims are seeking way to protect themselves from Hindu extremists.Hindus fanatic organizations are lauding the act of ...