ISLAMABAD (DNA) – The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to waste the election material of General Election 2018.Sources familiar with the matter told the media on Saturday that the ECP has directed all regional and district-level election commissioners to comply with the orders, and dispose of ballot papers, counter files, forms of non-disputed constituencies.However, the election material will be discarded of only those constituencies whose cases were not pending in the election tribunal or courts.

ISLAMABAD,  (DNA) – In what could be a significant step towards achieving SDGs and national development agenda in Pakistan, lawmakers representing major political parties from Senate, National Assembly and four Provincial Assemblies recognizing the importance of achieving SDGs joined hands and vowed to lead the process for generating a national response for achieving SDGs.The legislators had gathered at the First National Legislators’ Conclave, on Financing Sustainable Development Goals. The conclave was organized by Institute of Social and Policy Sciences (I-SAPS) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ).

BRUSSELS, SEPT 14 (DNA) –  The AJK President Sardar Masood Khan has called upon the Kashmiri and Pakistani expatriates to make hectic efforts to highlight Kashmir issue in Europe in its true perspective. “Kashmir was and would never become part of India but this is a conflict, and its solution lies in the relevant UN resolutions only,” he declared.Addressing Kashmiri and Pakistani Diaspora here on Saturday, he said that India through the use of brute force would never succeed in suppressing the just struggle of Kashmiri people for the realization of their inalienable right to self-determination.

ISLAMABAD (DNA) – Prime Minister Imran Khan, in an interview, has warned the global powers and the international community of grave consequences if a nuclear war breaks out between arch-rivals Pakistan and India.“It is a nation that will fight till the last breath,” he said while referring to a possibility of using nuclear arms in the war.“[The aftermath] of a nuclear conflict is unimaginable […] and anything is possible if two nuclear-armed states enter into war against each other,” he said.

WASHINGTON (DNA) – After US Senators Todd Young, Chris Van Hollen, Ben Cardin and Lindsey Graham wrote to President Trump raising their concerns about the ongoing situation in the held valley, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib also condemned New Delhi’s revocation of Articles 370 and 35A in the India-occupied Kashmir (IoK), Dunya News reported on Saturday.Rashida Tlaib released a statement regarding the situation in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and said, “I condemn the Indian government’s revocation of Articles 370 and 35A, the communications blockade it has imposed, its suppression of life-saving medical care, and the reports of widespread violence, torture, and other human rights violations being carried out in Jammu and Kashmir.

PESHAWAR, SEPT 14 (DNA) – Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Pakistan Akan Rakhmetullin participated in the International Conference on “Belt and Road Initiative, China Pakistan Economic Corridor and Trans-Regional Integration” in Peshawar.He shed light on importance of the project.He also underlined significance of of the project for regional integrity.The ambassador also talked about potential of his country in various fields.=DNA

ISLAMABAD, SEPT 13 (DNA) – Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Pakistan, Yao Jing  has said both China and Pakistan enjoy time tested friendship and it has been strengthening day by day.

He said that there was a need to enhance the manufacturing capacity of Pakistan and many Chinese companies were willing to come to Pakistan.

Under the CPEC the focus of cooperation between China and Pakistan is mainly in Power, Transportation and Industry sectors.

BRUSSELS, September 13, The AJK President, Sardar Masood Khan while welcoming the European Parliament’s decision of holding a debate on Tuesday (September 17) on the situation of Kashmir, has said that the decisions reflects growing concern in Europe over the deteriorating human rights situation in occupied Kashmir.

Addressing a conference on Kashmir jointly organized by Friends of Kashmir Group in the EP and Jammu-Kashmir Self-Determination Movement, at the European Parliament here on Friday, he warned about imminent risk of genocide of Muslim population in occupied Kashmir, and called for swift action by the international community.