LAHORE, Mar 20 (DNA): Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan on Friday has visited the family of Wing Commander Noman Akram (Shaheed), who embraced martyrdom in a plane crash last week during the rehearsal of Pakistan Day parade.The Air Chief offered Fateha and prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul.Paying tribute to the brave air warrior, he said the martyred pilot laid down his life for the sacred motherland, adding that his martyrdom would always be remembered.

MIRPUR (AJK): Mar 18 (DNA):The first case of coronavirus has been detected in Azad Jammu Kashmir as National Institute of Health Islamabad tested one person positive for the disease out of nine suspected cases, the authorities said on Wednesday.Addressing a press conference , Mirpur Deputy Commissioner Raja Tahir Imtiaz and District Health Officer Dr. Fida Hussain here on Wednesday said that laboratory tests detected virus symptoms in a  45 year-old male patient. He belonged to Sudhanoti (Palandri) district of Azad Jammu Kashmir.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 18 (DNA): Ambassador of Turkey to Pakistan Mustafa Yurdakul Wednesday thanked Islamabad police  for making best security arrangements during recent visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.In a letter, the ambassador formally thanked IGP Islamabad,  Muhammad Aamir Zulfiqar for the assistance during the recent visit of Turkish President and first lady Emine Erdogan to Islamabad.

ISLAMABAD, March 18 (DNA):The Aviation Division is all set to resume the international flight operations, suspended at Multan, Peshawar, Sialkot, Quetta and Faisalabad, from March 21 after making elaborate coronavirus screening measures there.“The international flight operation will revert to the original airports, except Gwadar and Turbat, on March 21, 2020 at 0001 hours UTC (0501hours PST),” a spokesman for the Aviation Division said in a press release.

By Mohammad Ali Hossaini

Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Pakistan Experience has proved that on time cooperation for preventing proliferation of a crisis are both logic and an issue of public interest.Today, the world is witnessing infection of increasing number of people to a scourge called COVID-19. Any inattention by the world leaders to this scourge will lead to a greater and more expansion of the virus even to their own people; the subject that will cause their future responsibility.

BEIJING, MAR 17 (DNA) – President Arif Alvi on Tuesday in a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang conveyed his full support and solidarity with China against coronavirus epidemic.During a meeting held here at the Great Hall of People, he said Pakistan and China are all weather friends and iron brothers who always stand together with each other.The relations between both the countries are based on mutual trust and win win cooperation. He said both countries have shown to world that they believe in coexistence and non interference.

At the invitation of H.E. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, Arif Alvi, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, visited China from 16-17 March 2020.The President was accompanied by the Foreign Minister, Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives, and senior officials. During the visit, President Dr. Arif Alvi met with President Xi Jinping. Premier Li Keqiang and Chairman National People’s Congress, Li Zhanshu, also met President Dr. Arif Alvi.