Islamabad: The National Economic Council under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved the revised development budget for the financial year 2022-23. This year, the federal PSDP is 714 billion rupees, while the provincial development budget has been proposed to be 1598 billion rupees. The meeting also approved the National Development Budget for…
Al-Fa port under construction in southern Iraq from where the ‘development road’ will start. Iraq has announced a $17 billion project that will connect Asia and Europe. The project will increase regional cooperation and economic opportunities. In a one-day conference in Baghdad, the transport ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Organization (GCC) countries, Iran, Turkey, Syria…
More than 43 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia continue to suffer through one of the worst droughts in recent history, caused by five consecutive seasons of poor rains. Years of conflict and insecurity have sparked mass displacement, while skyrocketing food prices and most recently, the fighting in Sudan, have compounded the situation. Appeal…
Sukkur Multan M5 Motorway. The Ministry of Planning says that 373 billion 9 crore rupees were spent on federal development projects in 10 months of the current financial year. Development fund release of 609 billion rupees was approved for July-April. For the current fiscal year, 714 billion 17 crore rupees have been allocated in the…
India’s war frenzy has grown further, with defense output rising 12 percent to $12 billion last fiscal year. According to a foreign news agency, this is the first time that India’s defense production has crossed 12 billion dollars (one trillion rupees). The government is reducing its dependence on defense equipment from other countries. India has…
In a new alert, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that more countries now face outbreaks, increasing numbers of cases are being reported and the outcome for patients is worse than 10 years ago. Killing the poor in plain sight “The pandemic is killing the poor right in front of us,” said…
Maryam Nawaz, the chief organizer of Muslim League (N), says that the idol of fear is broken by fearing God, not by breaking the statues of martyrs. Maryam Nawaz while presiding over a review meeting on the Muslim Students Federation (MSF) in Lahore said that the society has to be cleansed from the effects of…
The report states that some “UN Member States are enabling this trade” through a combination of outright complicity, lax enforcement of existing bans, and easily circumvented sanctions, according to a news release from the UN rights office OHCHR. Access to advanced weaponry “Despite overwhelming evidence of the Myanmar military’s atrocity crimes against the people of…
Kenya: The world’s oldest wild male lion became a victim of a herdsman The world’s oldest wild male lion fell victim to a herdsman in Kenya. According to Kenyan authorities, the 19-year-old wild lion named Lonkitu was killed by a herdsman while hunting cattle in the Kenyan village of Olkilonet on Wednesday night. setTimeout(function(){ !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)…
The Syria Earthquake Recovery Needs Assessment (SERNA) puts the total damages and losses at almost $9 billion, said El-Mostafa Benlamlih, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, who led the effort alongside the UN Country Team. “The UN has been working tirelessly to respond to the series of powerful earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria…
