Tag: Usaid

Govt needs $1.9b for Zarb-e-Azb, Dar tells USAID

Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar on Monday said that an estimated $1.9 billion are required for ongoing Operation Zarb e Azb for beefing up security and meeting expenses on return and rehabilitation of Temporarily Displaced Persons (TDPs).

USAID launches energy initiative for Pakistan at Arizona State University

With opening remarks by Senator John McCain, and in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and two Pakistani universities: the...

US provides $4.6 mln for Pakistan Safer Schools Program

ISLAMABAD- The United States has awarded $4.6 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the four-year Safer Schools Program in Pakistan. The program...

Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act passed in the United States

WASHINGTON- The US House of Representatives have passed a legislation named after Pakistani Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai which expands the number of scholarships to girls...

USAID helps launch $ 165m mobile bus library programme

Pakistan Reading Project will run a mobile bus library programme in Sindh and Islamabad over next two years and will bring reading materials directly...

USAID AND Rockefeller Foundation announce $100m global resilience partnership

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Rockefeller Foundation have announced a $100 million Global Resilience Partnership that lays out a bold...

US sent Latin youth undercover in anti-Cuba ploy: report

An Obama administration program secretly dispatched young Latin Americans to Cuba using the cover of health and civic programs to provoke political change, a...

Another sand castle on seashore?

USAID to rebuild 11 schools destroyed by floods in Sindh The earth-breaking of the first of eleven modern high schools to be built by the...

Afghans to get US aid even after troops pullout

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko has said that the US spending in Afghanistan is likely to continue at a pace...

100 students from KP, FATA awarded US scholarships

ISLAMABAD The US Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded scholarships to 100 talented students enrolled in the two-year Associate Degree in Education (ADE) and four-year...

USAID Agribusiness holds training on potato seed

The Agribusiness Project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Agribusiness Support Fund (ASF), organized a week-long...

Afghanistan furious over speculated US 7 billion military aid to Pakistan

- A report in the Washington Post claiming that Pakistan is set to receive approximately 7 billion US dollars in military hardware from departing...

US to give $36 million for water filtration project

SUKKUR- United States’ Agency for International Development (USAID) will be providing $36 million to Pakistan for a water filtration project, said the US Ambassador Richard...

USAID promotes knitted garments sector

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is promoting the knitted garment sector in Pakistan by supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in...

KP govt presents development plans to donors

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government presented its development programme to international donor agencies on Thursday during a one-day conference on Strategic Development Partnership Framework...

US earmarks $40m for construction of 16 faculties

US Consul General in Karachi Michael Dodman and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Gregory Gottlieb joined Hyderabad Commissioner Jamal Mustafa...

USAID’s project helps improve trading environment

The USAID's four year project on improving trading facilities in Pakistan helped in increasing exports to Afghanistan and in finding new export markets. According...