Tag: Effort

LIMA: Peru’s foreign minister said on Monday that she and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had agreed to keep working together to fight...

After an amazing 11-shot win in Thailand on Sunday, South African Charl Schwartzel has returned to one of his favourite courses in search of...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif has responded to a letter Afghan President Karzai recently sent him as well as other Pakistani political...

Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Syed Mehdi Shah appreciated the Rescue 1122 Emergency Service Academy for training rescuers. He was addressing the 16th passing-out ceremony of more...

Punjab Labour Minister Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi has said the Punjab government’s efforts against child labour have been appreciated by the ILO and the US...

Pakistan welcomed the leaders of Afghanistan and Iran for a regional summit at a key juncture in peace efforts with the Taliban and amid...

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) General Secretary Liaqat Baloch alleged on Thursday that the Punjab government’s dengue drives were only confined to advertisement campaigns. The JI GS was...

The United Nations Friday shrugged off a claim by Qaeda-inspired insurgents that a ban on foreign aid groups remained in force in famine-hit Somalia,...

The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant halted on Monday its new, glitch-prone system that is key to cooling down damaged reactors due...

A congressional investigation has warned that the expensive US attempt at nation-building in Afghanistan may not survive and collapse after the US withdrawal, reports...

ISLAMABAD - The modern world of today is continuously transforming and we are living in a changing world. Traditionally, majority of threats to maritime security emanated from inter-state territorial disputes and political instabilities.
However, in the new millennium, the concept of maritime security has been redefined. Unlike the past, the world's nations are confronted with the threats of transnational terrorism emanating from non-state actors. These new security challenges

ISLAMABAD - The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is improving access to finance for Pakistani farmers by investing in the upgradation of the National Rural Support Programme's (NRSP) micro-credit arm into a regulated, deposit microfinance bank.
IFC will acquire a stake of up to 16 percent in the new NRSP Microfinance Bank to support the bank's operation of providing farmers with access to crop and livestock loans, develop deposit products to encourage savings and enhance

TOKYO - Rescue workers from more than a dozen countries searched ravaged northeastern coastal cities on Monday for survivors of a massive earthquake and tsunami, as an international effort to help Japan cope with its multiple disasters gathered pace. Some 70 countries have offered assistance in an outpouring of solidarity with Japan, with help coming not only from allies like the United States but also countries with more strained relations like China, and even from the Afghan city of

ISLAMABAD - Hailing Pakistan's role in the process of reconciliation and integration for peace in Afghanistan, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Saturday that the solution to the crisis in Afghanistan is political and not military. "We support the process of integration and reconciliation for peace in Afghanistan. It is our common interest to have stability there," German Foreign Minister said while answering questions of reporters in a joint press conference with

LAHORE
The top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan has said that there will be more coordinated military operations on either side of the border with Pakistan and praised the country for its "impressive" counterinsurgency efforts, according to the Washinton Post.
Gen David Petraeus, who took over command of coalition troops in Afghanistan in July, said there had already been coordinated operations on both sides of the border, with Pakistani forces on one side and NATO and

WASHINGTON: The US has said that building a partnership of trust with Pakistan and Afghanistan required a long-term commitment, as top American officials acknowledged Pakistani efforts in the fight against terrorism operating in the region.
In a joint appearance on an American TV channel, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defence Secretary Robert Gates noted that Pakistan was working to root out the Taliban and Al Qaeda, as they pledged long-term US engagement with the

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said concerted efforts needed to be undertaken to take militants to task and neutralise ambitions of these stateless actors.
Talking to ambassadors of some FoDP countries over dinner at the presidency, Zardari welcomed the Summit-level dialogues with the European Union, saying Pakistan desired to have a comprehensive partnership with the EU and the interaction should be on a regular basis. He said there was a dire need to