Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif chairs a meeting on relief package on Petroleum Products
Security Forces recover huge cache of arms, ammunition including IEDs in Chaman’s IBO
RAWALPINDI, Mar 19 (APP): The Security Forces on Sunday after an extensive search and sanitization carried out in the area of Chaman, recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition including Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) from the location of terrorists identified in the area.
The forces had conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the general area Rehman Kahul, Chaman to clear a suspected hideout of terrorists, linked with recent terrorist incidents including the planting of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Chaman and surrounding areas, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) news release said.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) news release, as a result of continuous technical surveillance and reconnaissance of the area, a location of the terrorists was identified and the security forces were employed to check it.
Pakistan Army in step with the nation remained determined to thwart attempts at sabotaging peace, stability and progress of Balochistan, it said.
Marriyum lambasts Imran Khan for playing victim card
ISLAMABAD, Mar 19 (APP): Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Sunday lambasted Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan for playing a victim card following a raid of the police on his residence at Zaman Park the other day.
The minister, in a tweet, termed Imran Khan a “shameless person” who, according to her, sent daughters of his opponents behind bars and put them in death cells during his four-year (mis) rule.
She said Imran Khan, who had not declared Tyrian as his daughter, had been claiming that her wife Bushra Bibi was home alone when the police carried out a raid at his residence. How a woman, who received rings and diamonds as corruption, could be a housewife, she said while questioning Imran Khan’s different claims about his wife.
The minister said the entire leaders of the PTI were afraid of a brave woman Maryam Nawaz.
UN Water Conference opens Wednesday to address challenges to countries fighting water scarcity
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 (APP): The first UN Water Conference in almost five decades begins in New York Wednesday to deal with water-related challenges — an event of crucial importance to Pakistan, which is listed on top of countries battling water scarcity.
Co-hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan, the three-day conference is being portrayed by UN experts as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to accelerate progress towards universal access to safe water and sanitation by 2030.
It also marks the halfway point through the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development”, adopted by the UN General Assembly on World Water Day – 22 March 2018 – to help put a greater focus on water
“The conference will be an occasion to unite the global community to take action and address the broad challenges surrounding water,” according to Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and the Secretary-General of the conference.
A main outcome of the Conference will be a Water Action Agenda that will capture the ambitious new commitments from Member States and other stakeholders, he said.
The Conference is set to bring together Heads of State and Government, Ministers, and other high-level representatives of governments and the UN system.
Pakistan will be represented by a four-member delegation, including Hassan Nasir Jamy, secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources.
In an earlier event, Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram, while underscoring the conference’s importance, had said that “Because of climate change and other developments, we suffer from floods during the summers and drought in the winter repeatedly.”
Around 3.6 billion people struggle to get enough water to meet their needs for at least one month every year, according to the World Meteorological Organization, a Geneva-based UN agency.
Water is at the core of sustainable development, the UN said, adding it supports all aspects of life on Earth, and access to safe and clean water is a basic human right. “However, decades of mismanagement and misuse have intensified water stress, threatening the many aspects of life that depend on this crucial resource.”
Many water sources are becoming more polluted, and ecosystems that provide water are disappearing, it was pointed out, and climate change is disrupting the water cycle, causing droughts and floods.
The conference will include an opening and closing session, six plenary sessions, and five interactive dialogues, as well as side events organized by participants. It will result in a summary of proceedings from the UNGA President that will feed into the 2023 session of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
Federal Interior Minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan is talking to media persons at his residence
Children enjoy swing during the flower show at Qasim Bagh
RPO Sharaq kamal Sadeqi and DPO Faisal Kamran addressing a press conference after weapons recovered from vehicle
Students of Govt. Girls Little Folks Higher Secondary School performing in a tableau during late PPP MNA Ayaz Soomro Foundation function at Arts Council
A woman visitor keenly viewing photo exhibition of PPP MNA late Ayaz Soomro 5th death anniversary at Arts Council
Wrestlers demonstrating their skills in Thapar Kabaddi match at Village Fareedabad
