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, ...

ISLAMABAD – The Senate on Monday passed a bill to make the teaching of Arabic language compulsory in primary and secondary educational institutions across Islamabad. PML-N's Javed Abbasi moved the bill, which said that the students of the classes 1-5 should be taught Arabic language while grade ...

MANILA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has endorsed a new 5-year country partnership strategy (CPS) to help restore economic stability and growth in Pakistan by enhancing people’s well-being and expanding economic opportunities as the country works to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic, according ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is mulling over to reopen educational institutions across the country in three phases starting from January 25. A final decision will be taken in a meeting of an inter-provincial conference scheduled on January 4 to be attended by all provincial education ...

Additional Chief Secretary P&D Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has approved 39 schemes with an estimated cost of Rs.16471.989 million. He was chairing a meeting of Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) which was also attended by members of PDWP and concerned departments. The forum ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet is likely to approve the launching plan of a ferry service in Pakistan and mass transit authority’s ordinance, citing sources. A session of the federal cabinet is underway under the chair of Prime Minister Imran Khan today. The discussion related to the ...

ISLAMABAD-The meeting of Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has approved 29 projects worth Rs 53408.854 million. The meeting of PDWP was held here on Monday with Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Shakeel Qadir Khan was in the chair. Members and officials of the ...

ISLAMABAD-Asian Development Bank will provide 359 million dollars to Pakistan for transportation infrastructure and education projects. Signing ceremony to this effect was held in Islamabad today which was witnessed by Minister for Economic Affairs Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar and Country Director ADB ...

ISLAMABAD, (APP):Balochistan government has initiated ‘Teacher Skill Development Programme' (TSDP) with the collaboration of American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) to bring public sector schools’ performance at par with the global ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan seek huge loan and grants worth $2.4 billion from top financial institution. The Asian Development Bank disbursed record $2.4 billion loans and grants, including $1.8 billion in programme lending and $634.3 million in project lending, to Pakistan during the year 2019. The ...