Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
Defence preparation to ensure peace within, peace without: COAS
RAWALPINDI: Reiterating the need for bolstering defence and operational preparedness, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that armed forces’ defence preparation and operational readiness are “to ensure peace within and peace without.” “However, if provoked we shall respond and respond with all our might,” added the...
Covid cut: SBP slashes interest rate to 7pc
–This is the fifth rate cut since coronavirus pandemic hit global economy, with total reduction being 625bps in last 100 days KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), in a meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Thursday, slashed the country’s policy rate by 100 basis points from 8 per cent to 7pc. The surprise move was taken in...
SBP slashes policy rate by 100bps to 8pc
–SBP says virus has created ‘unique’ challenges for a monetary policy due to its non-economic origin –MPC says inflation could fall further than expected if economic activity fails to pick up as expected KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan, in a meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Friday, slashed the country’s policy...
Congo patient reported in JPMC
KARACHI: A Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) case was reported at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) here on Saturday. Executive Director, JPMC, Dr Seemin Jamali, while talking to PPI, said a 40-year-old man, a resident of Pak Colony, was reported in emergency department with congo fever related complications. She informed that the...
Pakistan has rich tourism potential, says Ukrainian diplomat
Originally published by D&D The Ukrainian Diplomat Vitaliy Zayonchkovsky has said that Pakistan has rich tourism potentials and bilateral tourism can be developed between Ukraine and Pakistan. Vitaliy Zayonchkovsky, who is a Ukrainian Diplomat working with the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine in a department which is responsible for relations...
Pakistan has rich tourism potentials, says Ukrainian diplomat
Originally published by D&D The Ukrainian Diplomat Vitaliy Zayonchkovsky has said that Pakistan has rich tourism potentials and bilateral tourism can be developed between Ukraine and Pakistan. Vitaliy Zayonchkovsky, who is a Ukrainian Diplomat working with the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine in a department which is responsible for relations...
CITY NOTES: A quiet Valentine’s Day
There is surely some way better of spending Valentine’s Day than listening to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan address Parliament, but Prime Minister Imran Khan bit the bullet. Rumours that he thought there would be walkout were exaggerated and may have been mixing up the speeches: Imran and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)...
Sindh plans to set up modern virology lab
KARACHI: Sindh Health Department, in collaboration with the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, is planning to establish a state-of-the-art virology laboratory to detect various types of viral diseases in the future. Sindh Secretary Health Zahid Ali Abbasi said that Sindh Health Department has decided to set up a modern Virology Lab in...
Killing Soleimani undermines global order
How would Trump have reacted to Vice President Pence being assassinated? Those who applaud the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani seem to simply equate him to a terrorist who certainly deserved to meet his fate. The question here is not whether he deserved to be killed, but can his killing be equated to those of Osama Bin Laden or...
Serena, Federer into third round as Osaka sets up Coco crunch
MELBOURNE: Fifteen-year-old prodigy Coco Gauff set up an Australian Open blockbuster with defending champion Naomi Osaka on Wednesday, as a pumped-up Serena Williams took another step towards a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title. On a day when men’s seeds tumbled, Serbia’s Novak Djokovic strode into the third round to be joined by...
