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News DeskIslamabad: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz vice president Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday said political decisions should be made in Parliament and not at the army headquarters.The 46-year-old daughter of former premier Nawaz Sharif was responding to a question from a reporter about Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa and head of the ISI Lt Gen Faiz Hameed’s meeting with key opposition figures at the army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi last week.Maryam, who was at the Islamabad High Court for a hearing of an appeal against her conviction in the Avenfield property reference, was talking to media at the court premises.Replying to…

By Our Staff ReporterA 65-year-old Pakistani-American was arrested for allegedly exporting high-performance computer equipment and software solutions from the US to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission without the requisite government approval, according to federal prosecutors. Obaidullah Syed, who owned the Pakistan-based Business System International (BSI) Private Limited and Chicago-based BSI USA, was arrested on 16 September and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years if convicted. He is currently in federal detention. Federal prosecutors said that the two companies operated by Syed offered high-performance computing systems , servers, and software application solutions. From 2006 to 2015, Syed and BSI conspired with…

By Special Correspondent TASHKENT, Sept. 23, 2020 – Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan called on the United Nations General Assembly to create a Permanent UN Committee on Afghanistan to coordinate peace efforts and to facilitate a lasting political settlement in the country.In a precedent-setting move, President Mirziyoyev delivered his address to the General Assembly’s opening session in Uzbek, the first time Uzbekistan’s national language has been used in the UN.In his address, the President outlined the steps his nation has taken to try to promote peace in Afghanistan, starting with a major international forum held in Tashkent…

by Qaswar Abbas ISLAMABAD—- A Motorway is all set to change hundreds of thousands of people’s lives in remote districts of Southern Baluchistan including Hoshab, Awaran and Khuzdar. Pakistan’s National Highway Authority has invited bids for Hoshab-Awaran-Khuzdar section of M-8, one of the greatest project of CPEC, which has already transformed millions of people’s lives across Pakistan. With the construction of Hoshab-Awaran-Khuzdar section (146km), districts of Hoshab, Awaran and Khuzdar will be connected to rest of Pakistan through M-8 Motorway. Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Lt. Gen (R) Asim Saleem Bajwa announced on Sunday said that…

News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan has secured support from friendly countries including China , Malaysia and Turkey to help them get off FATF’s grey list. Ahead of FATF’s working group and plenary meetings between October 18 and 23, the Asia-Pacific Group (APG), a regional affiliate of the multilateral watchdog, reviewed Pakistan’s actions to counter-terror financing and money laundering at a virtual meeting on September 15 and 16. At the virtual meeting, China expectedly backed Pakistan’s counter-terror financing actions, despite the fact that 13 of the 27 points in the Action Plan have yet to be completely implemented, sources said.   When Yao…

By Special Correspondent Islamabad: Pakistan’s major Opposition parties on Sunday demanded “immediate” resignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan as they launched an alliance to hold a countrywide protest movement to oust his government.   A 26-point joint resolution was adopted by the All Parties Conference (APC) which was hosted by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and attended by Pakistan Muslims League-Nawaz (PML-N), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) and several other parties. At a joint press conference after the end of the multi-party meeting, JUI-F leader Mualana Fazl Ur Rehman read the resolution and said that the opposition parties had decided to launch an…

By Special Correspondent UNITED NATIONS: Dropping bomb shell, the youngest Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has said 20 million girls around the globe may not return to schools even after the Covid-19 crisis is over.Her revelation stunned everyone at UN General Assembly where she spoke at a side event of the UN General Assembly on Friday afternoon.“On education alone, 20 million more girls may never go back to the classroom when this crisis ends [and] the global education funding gap has already increased to 200 billion dollars per year,” she said.Showing mirror to the higher authorities at International community malala lamented…

BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Dehli: Pakistan faces another possible danger of significant harm to its exports as India has applied for an exclusive Geographical Indications (GI) tag for Basmati rice in the European Union ( EU). Pakistan, on the other hand, is still in the process of enforcing the GI law promulgated in March. Despite the fact that Pakistan produces a wide range of Basmati rice in the country and profits from its export to the EU and other parts of the world, New Delhi claimed that it is an Indian-origin commodity in its application, published in the EU Official Journal on…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan has planned to set up three border markets with Afghanistan and Iran by February 2021 to finance business activities and help people in border areas, said Prime Minister Imran Khan.  Khan, who chaired a high-level meeting in Islamabad on Thursday, agreed to develop markets as a pilot project, the Xinhua News Agency quoted the Office as saying in a statement. Under the pilot project, the three markets, two in Balochistan and one in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, will be completed and operational by February 2021.  A total of 12 markets along the border with Afghanistan are expected,…

BY OUR STAFF REPORTERIslamabad: Pakistan’s government has sent arrest warrants via its London mission to deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has been staying in the United Kingdom for medical care, a media report said on Friday. Sharif, 70, has been in London since November last year after the Lahore High Court granted him permission to go abroad for four weeks for treatment. The three-time premier, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law Muhammad Safdar were convicted in the Avenfield properties case on July 6, 2018. Sharif was also sentenced to seven years in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills case in December 2018.…