Category: News & Announcement

The outgoing US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Alice Wells, while addressing a farewell news briefing through a video link attended by journalists from South and Central Asia, hurled scathing criticism at China for burdening Pakistan with a heavy debt through the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor saying “ At the time of a crisis like the covid-19 pandemic, it is really incumbent on China to take steps to alleviate the burden that this predatory, unsustainable and unfair lending is going to cause to Pakistan” Reacting to her remarks the…

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Apart from traditional security, Pakistan is fully determined to achieve its non-traditional national security challenges. In this regard, the peaceful role of nuclear technology is commendable under Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) that is fully resolved towards achieving socio-economic development. Pakistan is pursuing an instrumental role of civilian use of nuclear technology by culminating different 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for national prosperity in future. Chairman of PAEC Muhammad Naeem stated in recent conference paper titled, The Pakistani National Perspective on Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime on 8 April, 2020…

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May 28th 1998 is one of the most important days not only in the history of Pakistan but also of the South Asian region and the world as well. It is a day when the Pakistani nation showed the world that it is a force to be reckoned with, a force united, powerful and enduring, a force that would not fade away or buckle under threats of aggression or coerciveness. It is a day that marks Pakistan’s resolve to exist in the world with a capability that safeguards its sovereignty…

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ISLAMABAD / KARACHI / PESHAWAR / LAHORE / QUETTA / MUZAFFARABAD: The novel coronavirus emerged in the central China city of Wuhan towards the end of last year and proliferated to almost the whole world within a couple of months. It’s not the virulence or fatality, but the infectivity of the new virus – also known as SARS-CoV-2 – that has set off a global frenzy. The Covid-19 respiratory illness caused by this mysterious contagion has so far infected more than 5.3 million people in 202 countries and territories of…

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Oil and gas companies, as well as the retail industry, are the worst hit sectors in the COVID-19 pandemic that swept through businesses in Texas, bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers say. According to data provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook by Androvett Legal Media research, more than 545 companies of all sectors in Texas filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors between January 1 and May 5, 2020. This is a surge of 133 percent compared to the same period of 2019, Mark Curriden at The Texas Lawbook writes in Houston…

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