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Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Wednesday said media could play an effective role in improving Pakistan-China relations. She said...

The independent commission constituted by the prime minister to probe into the Abbottabad incident has been empowered to carry out its fact finding mission...

The government is engaged in a consultation process with all stakeholders to form an independent commission to investigate the Abbottabad incident, and the preliminary...

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq said Pakistan and Saudi Arabia can benefit from each other in the field of education,...

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Saturday said the establishment would not provide ‘political crutches’ to Nawaz Sharif for coming...

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Saturday that the establishment would not provide “political crutches” to Nawaz Sharif...

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Wednesday said the government believed in taking the political parties on board on all national...

SIALKOT - Federal Minister for Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said here on Sunday that the next elections in Azad Kashmir would be held in a fair and free manner.
Addressing a press conference, she said that all political parties were united on the Kashmir issue and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) had always raised a voice for Kashmiris' rights, without giving any consideration to political interests.
"Kashmir is the jugular vein of Pakistan and time has come to

DASKA - Federal Information Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has urged non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and philanthropists to come forward and establish educational institutions in the neglected areas of the country.
Addressing the annual prize-distribution of a school in village Sherpur, the minister revealed that a "sasta bazaar" would soon be started in the district where women would run their own businesses exclusively. Dr Firdous said that women could play a vital role

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Sunday that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) should be welcomed in Punjab for playing a role in the national mainstream.
Talking to the state-run Pakistan Television, the information minister said that the government wanted to maintain a political environment where all parties could work to solve the problems of masses in accordance with their manifestoes.
She said, "The hearts of

SIALKOT - Federal Information Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday announced to build 50 new houses for the tornado victims in village Dera Maai Malaani near Head Marala here. Addressing the residents of the affected villages, the federal information minister said the government had not left them alone in this hard time. She promised to start construction of 50 houses in village Dera Maai Malaani soon.
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SIALKOT - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday said the government was taking effective steps for the women development and economic empowerment.
Addressing a gathering of women at Bahadurpur near Head Marala, she said they should work shoulder to shoulder with men as any progress without their involvement in national mainstream was impossible. The government, in line with the mission of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto vision, was striving

SUKKUR - Federal Minister for Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Sunday that the Bhutto's legacy was an asset of the Pakistan People Party (PPP).
Talking to reporters at the Sukkur Airport, Dr Firdous said that the government needed the support and cooperation of all the political parties on all national issues. The Information minister said that Bhuttoism was not confined to any single political party.
PPP's founding chairman Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto taught the

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Thursday informed Senate that new media policy was being formulated and efforts were under way to give it a legal cover before June this year. Replying to supplementary questions during the question hour, she said that it has been decided that members of both the parliamentary committees on information and broadcasting, representative of media, civil society and all stakeholders would be taken on board for

ISLAMABAD - Information Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Monday claimed that not only the US but NATO forces were also involved in conducting drone attacks inside Pakistani territory. "Pakistan has conveyed its concerns regarding drone attacks not only to the US but also to the NATO forces. The prime minister has told them that the drone attacks were proving counter-productive and were hence promoting extremism rather than countering terrorism," she said while briefing the media on

KARACHI - Cricket diplomacy can open new avenues of composite dialogue between Pakistan and India, Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday.
"A peaceful solution to disputed matters between the two countries is not only the need of Pakistan, but of the entire region," she said while addressing a press conference at a hotel. The federal minister said that trade ties also would also strengthen between Pakistan and India and help them engage in

KARACHI - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan Sunday expressed the government's determination to take on board all the stakeholders, including political parties, civil society, media and law enforcement agencies to collectively evolve a consensus for improving law and order in Karachi.
Addressing a press conference, Awan, who was flanked by Secretary Information Taimur Azmat Usman, said although law and order was a provincial subject yet the