ISLAMABAD, Mar 18 (APP): Pakistan Bait ul Mal (PBM) plans to establish 50 computer laboratories in Women Empowerment Centres (WECs) (Vocational Dastkari Schools) to impart technical skills among vulnerable segment of the society. Managing Director PBM Barrister Abid Waheed Sheikh told APP that PBM was running 157 Women Empowerment Centres to make deserving girls financially self sufficient.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 18 (APP):Speaker National Assembly, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq Friday underlined the need for expanding trade and economic relations with Argentine.He was speaking to Rodolfo J. Martin Saravia, outgoing Ambassador of Argentine to Pakistan who called on him here.He asserted that Parliamentary engagement and economic cooperation gave strength to the warm relations between Pakistan and Argentine.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 18 (APP): Pakistan and Turkey will ink a Free TradeAgreement framework on March 22,Tuesday to tap the massive potential of bolstering trade between the two countries, said Turkish ambassador to Pakistan Sadik Babur Girgin here Friday. Turkish Economy Minister is flying into the Federal Capital  to ink the agreement between the two countries which have very close cooperation in diverse fields including defense and fighting war against terrorism and extremism.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 18 (APP): Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal on Friday said that all the reservations on China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project have been removed by the government.Addressing a book launching “China’s stories China’s success How China transformed in the past 40 years” by S.M Hali, he said: “There was a complete consensus, harmony and unity among all the political parties and their leadership on the CPEC.”

ISLAMABAD, Mar 18 (APP): The National Assembly Friday adopted a motion to refer the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (Conversion) Bill, 2016 as passed by the lower house and rejected by the Senate to the joint sitting for consideration and passage.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 18 (APP): A high-level meeting to review the internal and external security situation on Friday reaffirmed its resolve to root out extremism and terrorism from the country.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 17 (APP): Minister of State Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhary said that capital’s five special children’s educational institutions would also be upgraded through Prime Minister Education Reforms Programme. Talking to APP here Thursday he said, the government has transferred these schools to the ministry of CADD aiming at to renovate them.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 17 (APP): Foreign Office Thursday said Pakistan was firm on pursuing a indiscriminate and unequivocal drive against terrorism in pursuance of the national consensus.”Pakistan has time again made it very clear that it is fully resolved to eradicate the menace of terrorism and is not making any distinction in this regard,” the Foreign Office spokesman said in a weekly media briefing here at the Foreign Office.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 17 (APP): State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh  Aftab Ahmed Thursday apprised the National Assembly that PC-1 for Chakdara-Mangora-Behrain-Kalam road (N-95) has already been approved costing Rs.3.40 billion and work on it would commence this year.