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 The first Afghan peace conference titled ‘Lahore Process’ will be held in Bhurban Murree today. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will address the inaugural session of the conference on Afghan peace titled Lahore Process to be held at Bhurban today. Heads of all Afghan political parties and the political advisor to Afghan President will participate in the conference. In all, fifty seven delegates are expected to attend the moot including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, senators and members of Afghan parliament. The Lahore Process will discuss different areas including connectivity, trade, economy and health. It will also discuss the issue of repatriation of Afghan refugees who have been living in Pakistan for the last four decades. The delegates will give proposals on future course of action for Afghanistan. The conference will provide an opportunity to increase people to people contacts between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The meeting will increase confidence building between the tw...

Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani to arrive in Islamabad today on a two-day official visit to Pakistan. The Amir of Qatar, who is visiting Pakistan on the invitation of Prime Minister Imran Khan, will be accompanied by a high level delegation comprising key Ministers and senior officials. He will hold talks with Prime Minister Imran Khan and will have meeting with President Dr Arif Alvi. The two sides will discuss ways and means of building a robust and mutually beneficial economic partnership. During the visit, Pakistan and Qatar will sign MoUs for enhanced bilateral cooperation in different areas.   In a statement today, Ambassador of Qatar to Pakistan Saqar Bin Mubarak Al Mansouri says visit of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to Pakistan will contribute in strengthening the bilateral relations. He said the visit will establish a future partnership based relationship between the two countries. Saqar Bin Mubarak Al Mansouri said the Emir will discus...

Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Thursday said that the provincial government had adopted a holistic approach to solving public problems at the district level. Talking to a group of legislators hailing from Rawalpindi, who called on him today, CM Buzdar said that they would provide maximum facilities to people at their doorstep. In a statement issued from his office, CM Buzdar said that the standard of healthcare and educational facilities in Rawalpindi division will be further improved. The MPAs apprised the chief minister about their problems, development schemes and public welfare initiatives of their constituencies. CM Buzdar issued directions to the concerned authorities to resolve their issues. He also directed to initiate crackdown against those engaged in posting fake videos on social media.” It is the responsibility of the state to stop the projection of wrong information through fake and concocted videos,” the chief minister added. He also directed to continue indis...

Investigators in their initial probe into yesterday’s Jinnah Express train accident suspected that it occurred because of negligence on the part of the driver and assistant driver of a passenger train that rammed into a coal-laded goods train near Hyderabad. According to a report, the accident occurred at 5:30pm when Jinnah Express passenger train rammed into Sahiwal Coal Special train. Railway track restored after 15 hours  Consequently, a train driver and two assistant drivers were killed while a guard got injured. Besides, it said, the passenger train’s engine was completely damaged while the power van and a bogie of the goods train also suffered damage. The report said there were no reports of any passenger receiving injuries as a result of the collision. The passenger train going from Karachi to Lahore collided with the freight train which was stationary near Hyderabad railway station. Shortly after the accident, Pakistan Railways had regretted over the loss of lives i...

Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed satisfaction about all-weather and time-tested Pak-China friendship saying it is transforming into a robust economic partnership. Talking to a Chinese delegation led by Ms. Zhao Baige in Islamabad on Thursday, he said Pakistan accords great importance to CPEC and all efforts are being made to further streamline and improve coordination at all levels especially when the CPEC project has entered into its second phase with inclusion of critical areas such as agriculture, socio-economic development etc. He said that Pakistan wants to learn from Chinese experience and expertise in different sectors. He said that a special cell is being established at Prime Minister's Office to ensure seamless coordination between businesses of public and private sectors. Ms. Zhao, in her remarks, said that China will continue extending all possible cooperation to Pakistan in areas such as agriculture, health, housing and socio-economic development.

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will take up the plea filed by the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif seeking bail in the Al-Azizia case on medical grounds on Wednesday (today). The division bench comprising Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani will preside the hearing. In the last hearing, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)had submitted its detailed reply in the court. The NAB has requested the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to throw out a petition filed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif seeking his release from prison on medical grounds. In a detailed reply submitted to the IHC in response to Sharif’s plea, the anti-graft watchdog stated that the petition at hand is the third one seeking relief on the grounds similar to previous ones and therefore, is not maintainable and liable to be dismissed with exemplary costs. NAB stated the grounds on the basis of which Sharif sought his release are “non-conclusive observations contained in a medical report of the ...

England captain Eoin Morgan set a new world record of 17 sixes in an individual one-day international innings as the World Cup hosts thrashed Afghanistan by 150 runs on Tuesday. Victory at Old Trafford saw favourites England go ahead of holders Australia to sit top of the World Cup group table on net run-rate. Morgan s six-hitting spree in his career-best 148 set the tone for England s team total of 25 sixes, which was also a new ODI innings record. The Dubliner s innings, which featured 118 runs in boundaries, was all the more impressive as Morgan had been doubtful for this match with a back spasm suffered in England s win over the West Indies, in which he could not bat. "I m getting quite old, running around with a bad back, I never thought in my wildest dreams I d produce an innings like that!" Morgan said. "I had an extremely bad back after the last game but our medical staff have done wonders with medication and extensive treatment. I have pretty much been li...

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government has agreed to give one more ministry to its ally Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) in Centre, on Wednesday. According to details, Governor Sindh Imran Ismail and Federal Minister for Law and Justice Farogh Naseem met with Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad. During the meeting, it was agreed to give one more ministry to MQM-P in the federation. It was also decided in the meeting that Centre will provide a financial package to Mayors of Karachi and Hyderabad. “Karachi cannot be ignored as it plays an important role in the development of the country,” added PM. PM Khan also formed a committee and has given a task to Sindh governor and law minister which would give further recommendations to PM in two days. On the occasion, PM Imran appreciated the positive role of MQM-P in the democratic process. After successful negotiations, now MQM-P would support the government in the National Assembly (NA) for the federal budget approv...

The meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet will be held with Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in the chair on Wednesday (today). The ECC meeting will take place in Islamabad. The meeting will mull over supplementary grants for various government departments and ministries. The demand and supply of wheat will also come under discussion in the ECC meeting. In the previous meeting, the ECC approved the proposal of Finance Division authorizing the government to issue sovereign guarantee amounting to Rs.20 bn for investment in National Investment Trust’s (NIT) State Enterprise Fund. Ministry of National Food Security and Research secretary updated the committee about the wheat situation in the country. He informed that the country was in a comfortable position with having 7.257 million tons of wheat available in the stock. The ECC acceded to the proposal of Ministry of States, Frontier Regions to grant Rs.781,591,000 for arrang...

Prime Minister Imran Khan has said over one million citizens have registered at Pakistan Citizens Portal within 8 months of its launch. In a tweet, he said this is testament of people's trust on the system and its effectiveness. As of today over 1 million citizens have registered at Pakistan Citizens Portal within 8 months of its launch. This is testament of people’s trust in the system & its effectiveness. No political or bureaucratic reference required to reach out to a public office. #PMHazirHai — Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) June 18, 2019 He said no political or bureaucratic reference required to reach out to a public office. The Prime Minister said on the resolution front, a total of 6,80,000 complaints were resolved out of 8 lakh complaints registered so far. He said this is true citizen's empowerment in Naya Pakistan.

Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Monday said his government believes in the fair distribution of resources, Radio Pakistan reported. As per details, Usman Buzdar, in a statement issued here from Lahore has said, rights of people of South Punjab have been abused in past but it is now time for compensation. He assured that funds allocated for South Punjab will neither be used in any other project nor to any other city or province as Punjab cabinet has accorded approval to this decision. He said the incumbent government has allocated thirty-five percent in development budget for South Punjab. He said in the previous tenure, deprivation of South Punjab extolled but it is for sure that PTI government will fulfill the promises made to the people and will complete sustainable development in southern Punjab. Earlier on June 14, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led Punjab government had presented its first budget for the fiscal year-2019-20 in the provincial assembly. Punjab Finance Mi...

At least seven children died Sunday due to malnutrition and various other diseases here in the district's Civil Hospital Mithi, sources said. According to sources at the Department of Health, the ages of the deceased children were between two days and three years and they died in the past 24 hours. The latest seven deaths bring the number of total deaths to 38 this month and 386 this year.