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ISLAMABAD:Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Friday said it was a great honour for Pakistan to host World Environment Day on Saturday, themed ‘Ecosystem Restoration’.Speaking at an inauguration ceremony of two-day photographic exhibition in Pak-China Friendship Centre, he said it was a recognition of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)…

A Chinese medical team has been sent to Pakistan to serve the work staff and construction of Karot Hydropower Project, under the framework of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). According to Gwadar Pro, the team consists of one doctor-in-charge of the Critical Care Medicine and five nurses, which was the…

ISLAMABAD: In an apparent move to provide alternate routes to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, the federal government on Friday approved two inter-provincial connectivity road projects in Gilgit Baltistan (GB) to link the region with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). The executive committee of the National…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has started producing the single dose Chinese CanSinoBio COVID-19 vaccine to be able to deliver 3 million doses a month, health officials said. Branded PakVac, an initial batch of 118,000 doses of the vaccine is ready to be delivered to the government on Friday, the National Institute of…

The government has provided a helpful update on work done on the CPEC project so far; this was much needed. Information on the CPEC projects has been hard to access at times, which is why this element of transparency will help in allowing for greater public understanding on where we stand.…

KARACHI: Shanghai Electric, which is at the helm of a mega CPEC project in Thar, partnered with the National Forum for Environment and Health for the successful hosting of the World Environment Day 2021 at a seminar held on Thursday. The hybrid seminar took place at the NED University City…

Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the government has steered the country out of difficult times and now it will witness sustainable growth and development. He was addressing a ceremony after performing the groundbreaking of upgradation and rehabilitation of sixty two kilometers long Lodhran-Multan highway, in Islamabad on Friday, the…

ISLAMABAD: Senator Mushahid Hussain, Chairman, Senate Defence Committee, while giving his keynote address at seminar on the China-specific ‘The Strategic Competition Act: Implications for China and the region’ currently under debate in the US Congress, termed it as a new form of political and economic discrimination directed against China and…

LAHORE: Testing for the evacuation, transmission, dispatch and distribution of 2,200MW of electricity by the country’s first high voltage direct current (HVDC) Matiari-Lahore transmission line was successfully carried out on Thursday, paving the way for the launch of the line’s formal operation on Sept 1, a revised date for the…

Pakistan has a great scope to work with China for mangroves conservation under CPEC along Gwadar. There are areas along Gwadar where mangroves trees are planted. We can not only work on those mangroves along with China but also for their rehabilitation, said Dr Tahir Rasheed, Regional Head, Sindh and…