At the United Nations, Pakistan has renewed its call for redoubling efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals aimed at ending poverty, fighting inequalities and tackling climate change. The call was given by Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to United Nations and President of United ...

Parliamentary Secretary for Planning Kanwal Shauzab says the government is making endeavours to expedite the implementation and localization of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).    She expressed these views at a meeting with representatives of various UN agencies in Islamabad, to ...

At the United Nations, Pakistan has called for renewed commitment to the anti-poverty Sustainable Development Goals. Pakistan’s permanent representative to world body Dr. Maleeha Lodhi speaking in a debate on Sustainable Development in General Assembly Committee said as regards Pakistan, the ...

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister, Marriyum Aurangzeb has said the incumbent parliament is the first one after 1977 which passed the most number of one hundred and thirty three laws. In an interview with PTV on Thursday, she pointed out that most of these laws were related to improving human ...

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan has expressed its firm commitment to achieving Sustainable Development Goals for women’s empowerment. This was stated by the head of Pakistan’s delegation MNA Dr Shezra Mansab Ali Khan while speaking at the 62nd Session of the Commission on Status of Women at the ...

ISLAMABAD: Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) will lay 567 kilometer additional pipelines for gasification of 137 villages of Sindh and Balochistan provinces during the current fiscal year at a cost of around Rs2.246 billion "Under the PM's Global Sustainable Development Goals Programme, the ...

New Delhi: Amidst chill in Indo-Pak ties, Pakistan has declined an invitation by Indian Parliament and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to attend South Asian Speakers' Summit to be held next month."Pakistan and Myanmar which were among the countries in the South Asian nations invited to the ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Friday said achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was essential for long-term prosperity of the country.He was speaking on Prime Minister's Global SDG's Achievement Programme while chairing the meeting of federal cabinet here at the ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar said the Federal Cabinet also ratified PM's 17 Sustainable Development Goals Programme in order to provide basic facilities including clean drinking water, sanitation, and electricity supply.He informed that Cabinet also approved Tax Laws Amendment ...

UNITED NATIONS (APP): Pakistan has told a gathering of diplomats and experts at the United Nations that progress was being made in implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the global development agenda but will require all parts of the UN family and its partners to work together to meet ...