ISLAMABAD, SEPT 30 (DNA) – There is no slow down of CPEC as its foundation is solid and direction is set in new stage of CPEC.This was stated by Ambassador of China Yao Jing, in his key note speech at “Friends of Silk Road” Seminar organized by Pakistan-China Institute. Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, Federal Minister for Planning Development and Reform was the guest of honor.Chairman Senate foreign affairs committee and Chairman Pakistan China Institute, Senator Mushahid Hussain, presided over the seminar which was packed to capacity with a diverse and distinguished gathering including scholars, students, intellectuals, former diplomats, parliamentarians, business leaders, lawyers, civil society and representatives of Chinese companies.
U.S. interference in Hong Kong will backfire
Note: The following article is taken from the Chinese-language “Commentaries on International Affairs.”
U.S. congressional committees on Wednesday passed the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, bringing it a step closer to becoming law. The act requires the United States government to assess the level of freedom in Hong Kong in order to decide whether Washington will continue to grant the city special trading privileges under the 1992 United States-Hong Kong Policy Act. This legislation shows that Washington is intent on persisting in the role of self-appointed global policeman.
EU earmarks 180 million euros for climate change relates project in Pakistan
EU envoy says Pakistan doing well in climate change, environmental issues; supports multilateral approach; Amin Aslam spells out govt priorities
BY ANSAR M BHATTI
ISLAMABAD, SEPT 19 (DNA): Ambassador-designate of the European Union, Androulla Kaminara has said: “The EU remains committed to the Paris Agreement on climate change and its full implementation while progressing steadily with the finalization of the measures to reduce emissions by at least 40% by 2030.
She said climate change does not affect all countries in the same way and of course not all countries are responsible for climate change crisis.
“It has been proved that in already stressed societies climate change multiplies their woes. I have seen myself climate change affecting badly various countries”.
FM Qureshi meets Iranian counterpart in New York
NEW YORK, Sept 28 (DNA): Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi today (Sept. 28) has once again met his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif in New York.According to a private television channel report, FM Qureshi and Iranian FM discussed the situation of the region and mutual interests during the meeting.Sources told that the both Foreign Ministers decided to continue mutual consultation for peace in the region.Earlier, Prime Minister Imran Khan said Donald Trump had asked him tomediate with Iran to defuse tensions, though the US president latersuggested it was Khan who approached him and nothing was final.
Rare hailstorm hits Lahore, turns weather pleasant
LAHORE, SEPT 28 (DNA) – Temperature in Lahore on Saturday afternoon dropped significantly after a rare hailstorm along with heavy rain and thunderstorm gave parts of the provincial capital a feel of a hill station.Hailstones, the size of small strawberries, carpeted streets and rooftops with white colour as people watched the freak turn of weather with a pleasant surprise.However, a traffic gridlock followed the hailstorm, making driving a misery on roads awash with a hail of stones. Mobile phones were taken out to take stills and make movies of the falling hailstones.
HR abuses in J&K takes somewhere beyond understandable state: FM
NEW YORK, SEPT 28 (DNA) – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has stated that India’s draconian measures in Kashmir are inching the situation towards the unthinkable.Shah Mahmood Qureshi wrote that the unilateral move of India on August 5 abrogated the special autonomous status granted to Jammu and Kashmir within its constitution.What has followed has reminded the world of the extremism and xenophobia that still plagues it.He wrote it has forced everyone from international media to human rights organizations and legislators in the Western world to call the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party-led Indian government out on its actions.
Yemen FM says conflict has crippled govt institutions
NEW YORK (DNA) -Yemen’s Foreign Mnister Mohammed Al-Hadhrami has said “The Conflict in Yemen crippled the Govt’s institutions, and limited our abilities to distribute salaries, but eventually we did…, and we were able to [pay] 63%- 65%.He further said, the Govt of Yemen has introduced several measures and mechanisms aimed at halting the economic deterioration, one of them was establishing the economic committee.A lot of people [ask] us why don’t you end the war in Yemen, and end the Arab Coalition… In fact, if we end the Arab Coalition now, Yemen will descend to more distraction and chaos and will become a bigger problem.”
Lifeblood of the Workers’ Party of Korea
The Workers’ Party of Korea has been the ruling party in the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea since the first days of its founding (October 10, 1945).
The 70-odd-year history of the WPK is the history of the people-first principle, in which it has
believed in the people as in heaven and served them with devotion. Having inscribed a hammer,
a sickle, and a writing brush on its red flag, it has never been separated from the people, but has
always advanced the revolution and construction by believing in them and by relying on their
strength.
Police baton-charge protesting doctors at Lady Reading Hospital
PESHAWAR (DNA) – Police baton-charged the protesters of Grand Health Alliance, a syndicate of doctors, nurses, paramedics and non-medical staff, at the Lady Reading Hospital on Friday.The doctors raised slogans to get their demands fulfilled and tried to enter the administration block but were stopped by the police which resorted to shelling inside the hospital premises.The officials also arrested several protesters. Many individuals, including women, sustained injuries. The Grand Health Alliance refused to accept District and Regional Health Authority Act.
Belarus takes part in engineering and machinery exposition in Lahore
LAHORE, SEPT 27 (DNA) –Belarus took part in the International Engineering and Machinery Exposition held at the International Engineering and Machinery Asia Exhibition IEMA 2019 starting on September 26.The members of Belarusian industrial giants as well as high profile scientific and tourist organizations participated in the exhibition.The exhibition took place as a positive outcome of a meeting between Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus and Imran Khan the Prime Minister of Pakistan in Bishkek in June 2019. The exhibition was held at Expo Center Lahore.
