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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says the laptop scheme undertaken under the Youth Programme has become a creed for the progress of Pakistani youth.In a tweet, he said not only the scheme would bring a knowledge revolution but also create practical oppor...

Pakistan and Switzerland signed a Memordandum of Understanding in Bhurban today for promotion of cooperation in the field of disaster management.The MoU was signed by the visiting Foreign Minister of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis and Chairman NDMA Lieute...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that transparency and merit will be the guiding principles in the selection of recipients for laptop scheme.In a tweet today, he said the nationwide launch of Prime Minister's laptop scheme yesterday resumed the ...

The colorful celebrations of the three-day Shandur Polo Festival are underway in Chitral.The celebrations of the second day of the festival started with the national anthem. On this occasion, the bands of frontier corps and Gilgit-Baltistan presented ...

More rain-wind/thundershower is expected in Islamabad, Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pothohar region, Punjab, east/northeast Balochistan and Sindh during the next twelve hours.However, isolated heavyfall is also expected in Northeast ...

Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin has expressed his resolve to take terrorism related cases to their logical conclusion.He was chairing a meeting in Lahore today to review the so-far progress on legal proceedings against the miscreants of May 9.I...

Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, Sherry Rehman says Pakistan faces dual challenges of limited accessibility to climate finance and a lack of technical capacity, which impedes its progress in achieving crucial climate adaptat...