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ISLAMABAD TELEGRAPH REPORT ISLAMABAD: Saima Saleem, Pakistan’s first visually-impaired UN delegate has become a celebrity overnight. Millions of Pakistanis living in Pakistan and and abroad are all found praising her for her fiery speech at the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on last Saturday in which she stated that it is India that endorses terrorism in the occupied territory of Kashmir in a response to an Indian diplomat’s allegations against Pakistan. Saima Saleem, is serving in Pakistan’s permanent mission to United Nations in Geneva. Saima lost her eyesight during her teens. Undeterred by this limitation, she remained the most…
by Majid Rafizadeh The Biden administration’s poorly planned surrender in Afghanistan has been causing tragedy and disaster one after another, all while empowering the Taliban and the mullahs of Iran. The Iranian leaders have close ties to Taliban; both share a deep hatred towards the United States and Israel. Iran, as well as Pakistan, has also long provided shelter to Taliban leaders. Iranian leaders have therefore applauded Biden administration’s decision to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan. Former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif characterized the US withdrawal as a positive action, while President Ebrahim Raisi described it as a defeat for…
Business community & public supported the hanging By Our Special Correspondent Kabul: Following a successful operation conducted to release hostages, Taliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies up in public to deter others. A spokesperson of local government official confirmed to correspondent of “Islamabad Telegraph ” saying operation was conducted to release a father and his son from captivity of kidnappers who armed. However, Sher Ahmad Ammar, deputy governor of Herat, told journalists that the men had kidnapped a local businessman and his son and intended to take them out…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday said preventive healthcare was the best approach to control diseases and stressed on making the practice a national priority. “Healthcare is often skewed towards curative medicine neglecting the preventive care. Why not make the people aware not to fall ill in the first place?” the president said in his address at a conference titled ‘Contemporary medicines, health technologies & vaccines for emerging public health risks’. The 11th annual public health conference held at Health Services Academy (HSA) focused on improving access to medical services and vaccines to overcome health-related…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: ISLAMABAD, Sep 23 (APP): President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday called for establishing an institutional framework to encourage the multinational companies and the Pakistani diaspora to extend their business setups in Pakistan, particularly in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. Addressing a meeting via video-link with the Pakistani diaspora from Silicon Valley, USA, the president underlined the need to improve the business environment by simplifying the procedure for registration of companies and capital movement to attract foreign investments in Pakistan. The president said the government was taking serious measures to provide an enabling environment…
By Our Staff Reporter New York: Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi participated in an informal luncheon of D-8 Ministers hosted by Bangladesh, as Chair of the D-8, on the sidelines of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. Speaking at the occasion, the Foreign Minister reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to D-8 objectives and vision, and highlighted the country’s role in achieving the goals of the Organization. He noted that, among other meetings, Pakistan hosted the 8th D-8 Summit in 2012 which adopted two landmark documents including the D-8 Charter and its Global Vision. The 15th and…
Press release Islamabad: Former Interior Minister and Chairman Institute of Research and Reforms (IRR) Senator A. Rehman Malik has said that he has been receiving a number of messages for his views on New Zealand Cricket calls off the tour minutes before the Rawalpindi match. He said that this debacle is because of the failure of our internal system since we have no respect for the state’s secrecy and lack of SOP to handle such alerts. Rehman Malik said that the alert was issued based on an absconder namely Ehsan Ullah Ehsan who fooled our system sitting in Turkey. He…
By Our Staff Reporter Kabul: In a move which has won millions of hearts in Pakistan, Taliban arrested a government service after he was found guilty of removing Pakistan’s national flag from a Pakistani truck carrying aid from government and people of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Taliban immediately removed the accused from job and arrested him after a video of accused went viral at internet showing him removing Pakistan’s national flag. Although, Pakistan didn’t complain about Afghanistan’s official’s move, however, Taliban himself took action after the video went viral at internet. As per local media reports, Pakistan had donated food…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Addressing a joint press conference in Islamabad Today, two influential federal Ministers of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s cabinet including federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry and federal interior Minister Shaikh Rasheed said that the gadget used to send a threat to the New Zealand cricket team belonged to India. “It all started following a fake post by someone claiming to be Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant Ehsanullah Ehsan. A fake post was created under Ehsanullah Ehsan name warned New Zealand cricket board and government to refrain from sending the team to Pakistan as it…
Islamabad Telegraph Report Moscow: A teenage student shot dead his eight class fellows in a Russian university campus on Monday. It was second incident of mass shooting this year in Russia which has sent shocking waves across country. Videos circulating on social media showed people throwing belongings from windows of university buildings in the central city of Perm before jumping to flee the shooter. its a developing story