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By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: The European Union continues to support Pakistan in its efforts to strengthen good governance by signing a new parliamentary support project worth nine million Euros. The aim of the programme is to further consolidate democracy through working with the National Assembly, the Senate and the four Provincial Assemblies of Punjab, KP, Sindh and Balochistan. The three- year project will be implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), in consortium with the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS). The European Union will support the work of the six assemblies by strengthening their functioning in…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad:   Reporters Without Borders said it was concerned about state of journalism in Pakistan. “Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled that Hamid Mir, the well-known host of one of Pakistan’s most prestigious TV programmes, has been taken off the air by his TV channel after saying at a protest that those responsible for recent physical attacks on journalists should be identified. An autocratic climate is steadily taking hold in Pakistan,” RSF said.  Acxording to statement issued by RSF, the host of Capital Talk, a current affairs programme broadcast every weeknight on Geo News, Hamid Mir was suspended summarily,…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: The Ministry of National Health Services and the World Health Organization (WHO) signed a Letter of Intent on Monday with the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS), whereby thousands of volunteers registered with the humanitarian organization across Pakistan will be trained to participate in campaigns designed to promote awareness about the hazards of tobacco use and other substances inimical to health. This is one of the key activities being arranged in connection with World No-Tobacco Day (WNTD), which is observed worldwide on May 31 each year. The PM’s Special Assistant on Health Dr. Faisal Sultan, Chairman…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Country’s premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence has made it loud it loud and clear that it was nothing to do with the May 26 attack on journalist Asad Toor. The spy agency’s response came a few days after some controversial yet infamous journalists and member of civil society leveled allegations ISI claiming its involvement in the attack. The statement came after a high-level contact between the Ministry of Information and the spy agency. “The continuity of these allegations shows an organised conspiracy. The ISI has been the target of a fifth-generation war. An investigation…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan made it loud and clear on Sunday said Pakistan could not improve its trade with India at the cost of the blood of the Kashmiris spilt by India. “Any normalisation with New Delhi under the current circumstances would be a major “betrayal” to the people of the occupied territory,” Imran Khan said on Sunday while taking live calls from public on state-run PTV News. Interacting with the public in a live Q&A session, the premier said there was “no doubt” that the benefits would be immense if relations with India improved…

By Our Staff Reporter Milan: Police in Italy is investigating members of a Pakistani family soon after a teenage girl opf the same family went missing in mysterious circumstance, police authorities said. Italian authorities confirmed that police in Italy are searching for the body of an 18-year-old girl suspected to have been killed by her Pakistani family after refusing an arranged marriage. “The girl’s parents, an uncle and two cousins are under investigation for murder,” lieutenant colonel Stefano Bove of the Carabinieri police told journalists on Saturday. All “are supposed to have taken part in the crime”, he told reporters,…

Islamabad Telegraph Report Toronto: Canadian authorities found remains of as many as 215 children at the site of former residential school. The discovery has sent shocking waves across globe with Prime Minister of Canada describing the it heart breaking. According to International media reports, the deceased were as young as three years old. Authorities found remains of children at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978, according to…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan and Russia have signed the Protocol on the amendments to the Agreement on North-South Gas Pipeline Project in Moscow on Friday. Protocol was signed by H.E Ambassador Shafqat Ali Khan and the Russian Minister for Energy, H.E. Nikolay Shulginov. As per the Protocol the Project has been renamed as “Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline”. The pipeline will run from Karachi to Kasur for transportation of gas. The Project is a flagship strategic venture between Pakistan and Russia and will strengthen bilateral cooperation. “Pakistan desires a strategic partnership with Russia and looks forward to enhanced bilateral…

By Our Staff Reporter MUZAFFARABAD : The AJK President Sardar Masood Khan has stressed the need of activating global health diplomacy to project future threats of pandemics and to create platforms to consolidate the resources and solutions offered by multilateral organizations, governments, the private sector, and research institutions.  “During the current Covid-19 pandemic, it has become clear that the World Health Organization should be put at the center stage to provide overall leadership and decision-making for combating pandemics,” he said. He made these remarks while speaking as chief guest at a seminar on Pandemic Preparedness: Science and Countermeasures organized by Dr…

By Our Staff reporter Islamabad: Unidentified people attacked a journalist working for a local news channel in Pakistan. A wave of fear and anger has been felt among the journalist community following the latest attack. In a video message released from hospital Yesterday on May 26, the journalist Mr. Asad Ali Toor claimed three people broke into his apartment, gagged him, tied his hands and feet, and beat him with a pistol. “They fled away as I started screaming,” said Toor, who works for a popular show at Pakistani broadcaster Aaj television and runs his own YouTube channel as well.…