World Food Day: Speakers call for addressing food wastage at all levels
Celebrating the World Food Day on Friday, the speakers here at an event called for addressing food wastage at all levels including household, storage, and production. “On this World Food Day, we as a nation must address food wastage, not only at household level but also how we produce, process and store food in Pakistan….
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World facing ‘unprecedented’ food crisis: UN agency warns
The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive more people into worsening levels of acute food insecurity, the World Food Programme (WFP), a Rome-based UN agency, has warned. In a call for urgent action to address the root causes of rising hunger, ahead…
Shehbaz Sharif has launched the new entertainment satellite TV channel “AAN”
Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has launched the new entertainment satellite TV channel “AAN” at a ceremony at the Prime Minister’s Office. Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Dr Syed Tauqir Hussain Shah, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Public Policy and Strategic Communications Syed Fahd…
World Bank to provide $5 million for rehabilitation of flood affected schools
A World Bank 5-member delegation headed by Task Team Leader for Education Shahram Paksima in a meeting with Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Shah here on Wednesday agreed to provide $5 million under “Global Partnership for Education” for rehabilitation of schools affected by flood in the province. The final selection of schools for necessary rehabilitation…
World Teachers’ Day to be commemorated tomorrow across globe including Pakistan
World Teachers’ Day will be marked on Oct 5 (Wednesday) with the theme 2022 “The transformation of education begins with teachers” across the globe including Pakistan to celebrate the role of teachers in providing quality education at all levels. According to UNESCO, it is a day to celebrate how teachers are transforming education but also…
US Secretary of State Blinken defends sale of F-16 maintenance package to Pakistan
Antony Blinken, America’s top diplomat has stoutly defended the sale of F-16 aircraft maintenance package to Pakistan, as India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, who had sharply criticized the Biden administration’s move a day earlier, listened silently while his US counterpart justified the deal, saying it was aimed at bolstering the country’s capacity to fight…
Ishaq Dar takes oath as Senator
Senior Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz’s (PML-N) Leader, Ishaq Dar on Tuesday took oath as a senator, after living five years in self-imposed exile in the United Kingdom. Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani administered the oath to Ishaq Dar. PTI members tore the copies of the agenda of the meeting to register their protest and also surrounded…
Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority to prepare rules within one week: PAC
Chairman Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Noor Alam Khan on Tuesday directed Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) to submit agency’s rules before the PAC and the office of the Auditor General of Pakistan within one week. The official of AGP, presenting an audit para from the audit report of 2019-20 submitted that section 9(2) of National…
Spotify Celebrates the Voices and Stories of Women Creators in the First Episode of Spotify Talks
Momina Mustehsan, EQUAL Ambassador for September joins Natasha Baig, Zoha Zuberi and Rutaba Yaqub in a candid conversation about the experience of being a woman in music After launching EQUAL in Pakistan earlier this year, a global music program committed to raising the volume on women artists, Spotify debuts Spotify Talks, a digital series covering…
UN chief urges world leaders to boost efforts to fight climate crisis
As many heads of state and government, including Pakistan’s Premier Shehbaz Sharif, prepare to come to New York for the General Debate of the new General Assembly, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged them to bring hope to a fractured world, and increase efforts to fight the climate crisis. At a press conference in New…