KUWAIT (DNA) – Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday urged the Kuwaiti authorities to soften its visa policy for Pakistani community.The foreign minister highlighted the issue during his meeting with Kuwaiti Interior Minister Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah in Kuwait.They discussed Pak-Kuwait bilateral relations and issue of visa restrictions.On the occasion, Qureshi said Pakistani workforce comprising over 100,000 individuals is playing an important role in development of Kuwait.

ISLAMABAD (DNA) – Petroleum Division (PD) of the Energy Ministry Sunday said the results of four-month offshore drilling at Indus G-Block called Kekra-I, some 230-km off the Karachi coast, had shown good quality hydrocarbon reservoir but unfortunately these were water wet.

ISLAMABAD, MAY 19 (DNA) – Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday stated that ‘political imposters’ are on the agenda of exploiting the general public for their vested interests.She took to Twitter, and stated that the public are out of throws of these impostors, and would not fall into their trap.

PESHAWAR (DNA) – Turning a blind eye to patients misery and the government’s warning of taking a stern action against them, the doctors amid a crippling strike in all health facilities across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) continued the boycott of their duties in outpatient departments (OPDs) for the fifth consecutive day on Sunday.

ISLAMABAD (DNA) – The Ministry of Postal Services has opened its rest houses across the country for the general public.A notification to this effect has been issued as per the directions of Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed. The decision has been taken in the context of better utilization of the country s resources and facilitating the masses.

LALA MUSA (DNA) – The funeral prayers of the teenage son of senior leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Qamar Zaman Kaira, Usama – who lost his life in a tragic road accident yesterday – were held in Lalamusa.

KARACHI (DNA) – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Sherry Rehman on Saturday has rejected Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority’s (OGRA) recommendation to increase gas prices by 235 percent.The PPP leader lashed out at the incumbent government and said that this decision will put additional burden of Rs175 billion on the people.She said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is forcing the opposition for protest with such kind of steps. The government has given Ramazan package of price hike to the people and asked them to stay calm, she added.

PESHAWAR (DNA) – Turning a blind eye to the government’s warning of taking a stern action against them, the doctors amid a crippling strike in all health facilities across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) continued the boycott of their duties in outpatient departments (OPDs) for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday.The situation worsened after all OPD services in all major hospitals all over the province were closed due to the doctors’ protest following a brawl between a senior doctor and the provincial minister health and his guards in the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) on Tuesday.

ISLAMABAD, MAY 17 (DNA) -Within the Framework of outreach activities of the Heads of Diplomatic Missions’ Spouses Group, a number of spouses of Ambassadors and High Commissioners donated 140 books from their private collections and from the collections of their Embassies to the National Library of Pakistan.The Group and its President, MrsGhada Ahmed, Spouse of the Ambassador of Egypt attempts, through this donation, to reach out to the Pakistani community by introducing their different cultures through their books.

BEIJING (DNA) – The three-day dialogues between Pakistan and Financial Action Task Force (FATF) have ended on Friday in China.During the dialogues, Pakistani officials presented its arguments to the FATF officials about Islamabad’s efforts against money laundering and terror financing.The next round of talks will be held from June 17-20 in the United States of America.