ISLAMABAD, NOV 06 (DNA) – Hiroshi Inomata, Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, handed over hybrid vehicles to the Ministry of Interior (MOI) on Friday.These hybrid vehicles were manufactured by Japanese company using more efficient cutting edge technology. The Government of Japan will provide in total 123 vehicles to MOI and National Highways and Motorway Police. Total cost for the provision of the vehicles is around 500 million Japanese Yen, an equivalent of PRs. 435 million.
Putins initiative for global peace Gen® Aslam Beg
Russian military intervention in Syria is a deliberate act, based on years of planning. Putin solved domestic problems; re-juvinated the armed forces; ensured security of the “Near abroad” and reached out to Afghanistan to eliminate the terror threat. The primary objective was, to return to the centre stage of world politics, as a super-power, while the declared objective is: Russia is saving Europe, from the barbarians, fourth time – from Mongols, Napoleon, Hitler and now the Islamic State.
EMILIAN ION: Romania, Pakistan relations given new dimensions
Dean of European missions, Ambassador of Romania talks to Centreline and DNA
Ansar Mahmood Bhatti
Ambassador of Romania Emilian ION gave an exclusive interview to Centreline and DNA on the occasion of Romanian national day. Ambassador Emilian is also the Dean of European missions. Ambassador ION is now the senior most ambassador among the European diplomatic corps and third senior most ambassador in the diplomatic corps. He has contributed greatly towards the strengthening of relations between Pakistan and Romania. During his tenure Pakistan and Romania have explored a number of avenues while a lot more are in the pipeline. Here are excerpts from his interview.
Paris attacks: attackers might have come thru Syria by Ansar Mahmood Bhatti
ISLAMABAD: The deadly Paris attacks that claimed over 160 lives have sent shock waves throughout the world. The whole world has extended support to France at this critical time. This is not for the first time that that France has been hit hard by terrorists, even in January this year some miscreants attacked office of French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had published blasphemous materials. 11 people were killed in that January 7 attack. This time tally is huge and perhaps unprecedented in the recent French history.
Tajik President arrives on Nov 11 on important Pakistan visit
ISLAMABAD, NOV 09 (DNA) – President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan on November 11 on a very important Pakistan visit. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif himself will receive the Tajik president.A number of agreements are to be signed between the two sides in the fields of defence, economy, energy as well as security issues. Both countries share common views with regard to regional peace and security and have been cooperating with each other on this particular issue.
Palestinian flag raised at UN for first time: Walid Abu Ali
Ambassador of Palestine talks to Centreline and DNA
Diplomatic News Agency (DNA)
ISLAMABAD: The Palestinian flag has for the first time been raised at the United Nations following an address delivered by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the UN General Assembly. The flag was in the presence of a large crowd of diplomats and reporters watched on. Speaking to the crowd, Abbas dedicated the ceremony to “the martyrs, the prisoners and the wounded, and to those who gave their lives while trying to raise this flag”.
Social work is my passion: Sadia Shoaib BYYasir Habib Khan
LAHORE: Persona of a woman as a wife of a politician is always rife with challenges. It often gets tough to strike a balance among all her multiple roles. Looking after everyday issues as a mother, sister and wife at home, working shoulder to shoulder to provide all out support to her spouse and pursuing her own professional career become daunting tasks, yet she must perform against all odds. Sadia Shoaib, wife of Shoaib Siddique (PTI politician) who clinched a landslide victory in recent by-election held at PP-147 Lahore, is among those remarkable women who prove their mettle in synchronizing politics, home management and social work.
In an exclusive interview with Centreline and DNA, she asserts that the challenges of her multiple roles are really not thrust upon her, rather she deals with them willfully, as her own desire and ambition.
BABUR GIRGIN : Turkey, Pakistan relations touching new heights
Ambassador of Turkey talks to Centreline & DNA
Ansar Mahmood Bhatti
The Ambassador of Turkey to Pakistan Sadik Babur Girgin gave an exclusive interview to Centreline and DNA. He talked extensively about bilateral as well multi-lateral relations. He also spoke about the Kashmir and Cyprus issues. Here is the text of his interview.
1: Ostensibly, relations between Pakistan and Turkey have always been excellent and especially in recent years these relations seem to have taken a new turn. Can you share with us vision of your leadership vis a vis relations with the outer world and particularly with Pakistan?
Turkey and Pakistan have always had excellent relations due to the brotherly feelings of their peoples towards each other. In recent years the effort has been to translate this into more concrete cooperation across all fields.
LG elections: traditional politics rules supreme by Ansar Mahmood Bhatti
The local government (LG) elections that took place in parts of Punjab and Sindh province on October 31, 2015, put both the ruling PML N in Punjab and PPPP in Sindh in the commanding position. While the poll exercise yielded expected results for opinion polls had already heralded victory of both these ruling parties, nevertheless only a few expected that Imran Khan led PTI would sail badly in these elections. Analysts were forecasting neck-and-neck bout between the two rival parties in Punjab but PTI’s lackluster performance has not only annoyed the party leadership, it seems to have lowered morale of the workers also. As regards performance of PPP in Punjab, after dismal show in the last general elections, it was quite evident that the PPP may not be able to put up any worthwhile performance in the biggest province of the country. There are a number of reasons and factors that led to average performance of these parties — the internal differences and especially in PTI’s case fragile or for that matter nonexistent grass-root level structure in Punjab and elsewhere were perhaps the key factors.
OSCE monitoring team fired by Armenian military
, NOV 03 (DNA) -On 27 October 2015, upon initial agreement the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs passed from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan through the line of contact between the armed forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan to the territories controlled by Azerbaijan army. At the very moment a ceasefire monitoring exercise was conducted by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office and his field officers on the road between Tartar and Aghdara (Tartar district of Azerbaijan). Despite prior agreement to undertake measures to ensure safety of the OSCE personnel, repeated gunfire was shot from the occupied territories controlled by Armenia’s armed forces in the direction of the positions of the armed forces of the Republic of Azerbajjan. This incident forced the OSCE monitoring team to seek protection of the Azerbaijani armed forces.
