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ISLAMABAD: The Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr Geoffrey Shaw joined the Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul to inaugurate a Miyawaki Forest at the Fatima Jinnah Park Islamabad on Wednesday. The High Commission gifted the forest to the public park as part of an initiative organised by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to support Pakistan’s Miyawaki Forest and the Spring Tree Plantation Campaign 2021. Speaking at the tree plantation ceremony, Dr Shaw said, “This Miyawaki Forest is a gift from the Australian Government to the people of Pakistan. I hope that the trees and shrubs planted here today help regenerate…

Islamabad, Pakistan – Prime Minister Imran Khan will face a vote of confidence from the country’s Parliament after suffering defeat on a key seat in the country’s Senate elections, party officials say. Elections for 48 seats of the Senate, the 96-member upper house of parliament, were held on Wednesday, with legislators voting through the day in the country’s provincial assemblies and in the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament. Read More : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/3/pakistani-pm-to-face-confidence-vote-after-senate-blow

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday unveiled a human rights “action plan” designed to strengthen the rule of law and judicial independence in a country that rights groups say lacks both. Erdogan quoted the late US civil rights leader Malcolm X in saying he stood “for justice, no matter who is for or against it” before laying out the details of his 11-point proposal. Its commitments include respecting the presumption of innocence and a speedier judicial process to reduce the length of pre-trial detention. Read More : https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/798294-erdogan-unveils-turkish-human-rights-action-plan

ISLAMABAD (APP):Adviser to Prime Minister for Commerce and Investment, Abdul Razak Dawood said that Pakistan’s imports increased by $ 2.085 billion during July to February 2021 as compared to the same period in last Fiscal Year 2020. The Ministry of Commerce (MOC) had conducted a preliminary analysis of this increase in import , the adviser said this on his official twitter account. He informed that during Jul-Feb 2021, the import of Wheat amounted to $ 909 million, Sugar $ 126 million and Cotton $ 913 million (total of $ 1,948 million). According to the provisional data, imports during July to…

Polling for 37 seats of the Senate is underway under the supervision of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as a total of 78 candidates contest from Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Islamabad. In the National Assembly, the first vote was cast by PTI’s Shafiq Arain while the second one was cast by federal Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda. All Senate candidates from Punjab were elected unopposed last month after disqualification or withdrawal of papers by other contestants. Polling started at 9am and will continue till 5pm without any break. ECP staff reached the Parliament House in Islamabad early…

ISLAMABAD/DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has welcomed an agreement between the militaries of Pakistan and India to restore the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border separating the disputed region of Kashmir between the two ar-rival neighbours. Last week, the two militaries said in a rare joint statement that they had agreed to observe the ceasefire, having exchanged fire hundreds of times in recent months. “Both sides agreed for strict observance of all agreements, understandings and cease firing along the [LoC] and all other sectors, with effect from midnight [on Friday],” read the statement. “UAE has close historical…

ISLAMABAD: A delegation of the ruling PTI and another of the opposition PML-N on Monday called on the chief election commissioner (CEC) separately and discussed the Senate election scheduled for March 3 (Wednesday). The federal government team, including Shafqat Mahmood, Babar Awan and Fawad Chaudhry, conversed over the transparency in the polls, while the PML-N on the procedure. Talking to media persons outside the ECP office, Education Minister Mahmood said, “We have requested the CEC [Sikanadar Sultan Raja] to work out a method to identify the votes as the opposition wants to make the process controversial.” However, he said the PTI feels…

Health Benefits of Turmeric for Men You might have a container of turmeric sitting in your galley seasoning rack, but possibly a better spot in the home for it is the medicine cabinet. There are many health benefits of turmeric, and one of turmeric is its powerful components, curcumin. Turmeric and curcumin seem to be used interchangeably, but they are not the same person. Turmeric includes curcumin plus other phytochemicals. Curcumin gives turmeric its unique peppery flavor and has many anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Many investigations suggest that turmeric could have important benefits for many aspects of men’s health. From…

How will Pakistan fare during the Joseph Biden era that began on January 20, 2021, when the 46th President of the United States moved into the White House? The question is easy to answer at one level: there is no doubt that Islamabad’s relations with Washington will be much better than they were when Donald Trump occupied the White House. In one of his first-of-the-year tweets, Trump called Pakistan all kinds of names. He may not have exactly used those words but for him Pakistan was devious, untrustworthy, a cheat and a liar. It had received billions of dollars from the…

The document released by President Joe Biden’s administration concluded that Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation to capture or kill Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was dismembered by Saudi agents in Turkey in 2018. Read More : https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/saudis-welcome-us-report-blaming-prince-for-jamal-khashoggi-killing-thanks-2380792