ISLAMABAD: Asian Development Bank (ADB) has informed on Tuesday (29th October, 2024) that it has approved a policy-based loan worth $500 million to support climate change and disaster rick reduction and resilience in Pakistan. ADB noted that the Climate and Disaster Resilience Enhancement Programme (CDREP) would strengthen Pakistan’s institutional capacity for planning, preparedness, and response; […]
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BEIRUT: Following the death of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah Sheikh Naim Qassem (who remained attached to the movement for three decades as a senior leader,) has been elected the new head of the Lebanese armed outfit on Tuesday (29th October, 2024). Naim Qassem, during his 8th October, 30-minute, televised address […]
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ORAKZAI (KP): Militants have gunned two policemen down here on Tuesday (29th October, 2024) while they were escorting a polio vaccination team. LEA sources have said that two attackers were eliminated following the killings. Administering polio drops is a hazardous metier in certain areas of Pakistan. A polio worker was raped in the Detha village […]
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PANJGUR: Five workers tasked with maintenance of a dam construction site have been gunned down by unidentified militants here on Tuesday (29th October, 2024) morning. The miscreants also set on fire the machinery. Five corpses and two injured were transported to a nearby medical facility where the staff told that the wounded were out of […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dispatched 17th consignment of humanitarian aid comprised of seventeen tons of supplies (tents, food tins, dry milk, rice, clothes, hygiene kits and medicine) to Lebanon on Tuesday (29th October, 2024). Newspakistan.tv Sana Mehmood
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HAGUE: South Africa on Monday (28th Oct 2024) has filed evidence of a genocide committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip with the International Court of Justice (ICJ). According to South Africa the document contains proof which manifests how Israeli govt. has violated UN Genocide Convention by killing populace in Gaza. It may be recalled […]
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ISLAMABAD (NPTV/Radio Pakistan): Speaker of the Federation Council of Russian Federal Assembly Ms Valentina Matvienko has said Russia respects Pakistan’s sovereignty, culture and history. Addressing the special sitting of the Senate today (Monday), she emphasized that this relationship is based on mutually beneficial and respectful grounds, asserting that there are no minor or major partners […]
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ISLAMABAD: According to World Justice Project’s 2024 survey, (after Mali and Nigeria,) Pakistan is the 3rd-worst among 142 countries as far as Security is concerned. World Justice Project utilises 8 yardsticks while conducting its annual surveys to gauge the level of security in the country, i.e: 1) Constraints on Government Powers; 2) Absence of Corruption; […]
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MANHATTAN: United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has taken to the Twitter on Monday (28th October, 2024) to state that a Ceasefire was needed now for the sake of all the children in Gaza as well in the region. Agency maintains that in the Gaza Strip, “UNRWA teams continue to support children through play […]
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LAHORE: PCB has accepted the resignation of Pakistan cricket team’s white-ball coach Gary Kirsten here on Monday (28th October, 2024). PCB had hired the former S. African top-order batsman Gary Kirsten six months ago (on 28th April, 2024) to coach the Green Shirts that faced humiliating defeats that were inflicted by novice US and the […]
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