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Islamabad, December 29, 2020 (PPI-OT): Pakistan reiterates its call for independent inquiry under international scrutiny into the extra-judicial killing of three innocent Kashmiri labourers in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The three Kashmiri labourers were martyred by the Indian occupation forces in staged encounter in July 2020 in …
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President Dr Arif Alvi asks National Commission for Human Development to work for promotion of universal primary education in the country
Islamabad, December 29, 2020 (PPI-OT): President Dr Arif Alvi has asked the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) to work for promotion of universal primary education in the country. He said that NCHD needed to focus on out-of-school children by providing them formal and non-formal education. He stated this while …
Read More »Comparison between LNG spot price in a high winter month and a long-term contract is irrational: PD
Islamabad, December 29, 2020 (PPI-OT): This is relation to comments in certain section of media about two spot cargo bids received by PLL for deliveries in second half of February 2021. The Spokesperson says that Spot market for LNG is always higher in the winter months versus summer months given …
Read More »Uzbek delegation led by its Minister for Transport Makhamov Ilkhom meets Federal Minister for Railways Azam Khan Swati at the Ministry of Railways
Islamabad, December 29, 2020 (PPI-OT): A delegation of Uzbekistan led by Uzbek Minister for Transport Makhamov Ilkhom met Federal Minister for Railways Azam Khan Swati at the Ministry of Railways here at Ministry of Railways Islamabad today. The meeting was held in connection with the Trans-Afghan Rail Project. Bilateral relations, …
Read More »Kashmir Premier League joins hands with Shahid Afridi Foundation
Islamabad, December 29, 2020 (PPI-OT):Today the Kashmir Premier League organized a Signing Event in Islamabad with Shahid Afridi Foundation as Charity Organization. KPL aims to align the societal development with the cricketing activity creating a platform which would positively encompass the people and land of Kashmir. Kashmir Premier League signed …
Read More »Statement of Spokesman Ministry of National Health Services on detection of a variant of SARS-COV-2; B.1.1.7
Islamabad, December 29, 2020 (PPI-OT): Spokesman Ministry of National Health Services has said the United Kingdom reported the detection of a variant of SARS-COV-2; B.1.1.7, also called VUI-202012/01, earlier this month. Preliminary analysis by their experts suggests that this particular variant may be more transmissible; there is NO evidence so …
Read More »President Dr Arif Alvi says, disabled persons in the society deserved access to education and employment as their “equitable right, and not as charity”
Islamabad, December 29, 2020 (PPI-OT): President Dr Arif Alvi on Tuesday said disabled persons in the society deserved access to education and employment as their “equitable right, and not as charity”. “The State is responsible to transform the society in a way that it accepts and mainstreams the differently-abled persons …
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