China approves Pakistani cherry orchards for export
BEIJING: General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) has approved sixty more orchards from Gilgit-Baltistan to export cherry to China,...
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People of Balochistan have first right on province’s resources: PM Shehbaz Sharif
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said that the people of Balochistan had the first right on the resources...
UNESCO urges worldwide ban on smartphones in schools
UNITED NATIONS: A new UN report has raised concerns about the excessive use of smartphones, calling for them to be...
OIC Geneva group decries repeated acts of Holy Quran’s desecration
GENEVA: The OIC Group in Geneva issued a statement condemning the “repeated public and premeditated” acts of desecration of the...
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari discusses post-flood recovery with Antonio Guterres
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday held a telephonic call with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and...
China’s EXIM bank rolls over $2.4 billion loan, says Ishaq Dar
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar said here on Thursday that Chinese Export Import Bank (EXIM) has...
Effects of climate change increasing in Asia, UN weather agency
UNITED NATIONS: Extreme weather events ranging from large-scale floods - like last August’s deluge in Pakistan - to droughts and...
Japan’s has one of the world’s oldest populations, and it is shrinking at a record rate
Japan’s population is declining at record speed while the number of foreign nationals residing in the country has risen to...
Ship carrying 3,000 cars burns off Dutch coast, crew member dead
THE HAGUE/AMSTERDAM: A fire blazed on a ship off the Dutch coast with nearly 3,000 vehicles on board on Wednesday,...