Month: March 2022

Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi met the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), H.E. Mr. Hissein Brahim Taha, today. The OIC Secretary General is visiting Islamabad for participation in the 48th Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM). The Foreign Minister and the OIC Secretary General reviewed the agenda of the 48th CFM and exchanged views on the main outcomes expected from the Conference. They also discussed the issues confronting the Islamic Ummah and the role of the OIC in that regard. The Foreign…

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Indus Motor Company (IMC), aligning itself with the spirit of Toyota’s global corporate initiative, “Start Your Impossible” (SYI), has signed on an emerging mountaineer, Asad Ali Memon as its newest SYI champion.Asad is a 24-year-old, high potential sportsman from Larkana, Sindh. Since the beginning of his mountaineering career in 2016, he has summitted several peaks both in Pakistan and internationally and made multiple records, which brought Pakistan under the spotlight of international attention. In 2021, he set a world record when he climbed the Kilimanjaro and back in 20 hours.The…

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Turkey has said it is ready to host a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has calls for urgent talks with Russia, saying in a Facebook video they are the “only chance for Russia to minimise the damage done with their own mistakes”. Zelensky has been pushing for direct talks with Putin. Moscow claims that several rounds of negotiations have made progress on one of its key demands — that Ukraine becomes a neutral state. Kyiv, which is demanding international security guarantees,…

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Oil is set to surge to $120 a barrel as the Ukraine conflict rocks energy markets, Morgan Stanley’s chief commodities strategist has predicted. Crude oil prices will then stay around the $100 mark for the whole of 2023, Martijn Rats told Insider. The war in Eastern Europe will mean Russian oil production will fall by around 1 million barrels per day, as the country struggles to find buyers for its energy. Although European governments have not followed the US in banning Russian energy imports, many companies in the region are…

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Air pollution kills an estimated 7 million people every year. Tiny soot and dust particles found in city air and biomass-fueled kitchens are the main culprits. Scientists call it PM2.5, meaning particulate matter smaller than 2.5 millionths of a meter. Bloomberg Green pulls data from more than 4,000 sensors monitoring PM2.5 in an open-source network run by OpenAQ, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. In the most recent 24-hour period, at least 146 million people around the world lived with air exceeding the World Health Organization’s guideline of 25 micrograms…

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