ISLAMABAD, Aug 28 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Wednesday said Pakistan attaches great importance to its friendship with China and appreciates the interest of Chinese companies to invest in development projects in Pakistan. He was talking to a delegation of National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China that was led by its Vice Chairman Zhang Xiaoqiang. The Prime Minster deliberated ...

Srinagar, Aug 28: Two persons including a woman were injured after suspected RAW's agents  opened fire at main Bazar Awantipora in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Sources stated that two individuals  on a motorbike attacked Awantipora resulting in injuries to two civilians. A police spokesman in a statement said that two civilians were injured when militants opened fire in open market at Awantipora Bazar ...

[caption id="attachment_4607" align="alignright" width="230"] Protests against human rights violations have been a hallmark of the armed conflict in Kashmir.[/caption] ‘New Delhi hell bent upon seizing land in JK’ Srinagar, Aug 28: (GNS) Terming the Tosmaidan lease extension agreement unacceptable Hurriyat Conference Wednesday said any such move would add to agonies of locals as entire population is already ...

 By  Stephen Ornes Earth may face far warmer temperatures than previous estimates had indicated Earth is warming. Sea levels are rising. There’s more carbon in the air, and Arctic ice is melting faster than at any time in recorded history. Scientists who study the environment to better gauge Earth’s future climate now argue that these changes may not reverse for a very long time. Think millennia. People bur ...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 27 (APP): The UN agency tasked with assisting  Palestinian refugees has called for restraint from all parties after receiving confirmation that one of its staff members was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Monday. In a statement, the UN relief and Works Agency for Palestine  Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said the staff member was killed instantly in an operation in the Kalandia ...

BEIJING, Aug 27 (APP): China Tuesday said it warmly welcomes Pakistan’s desire to become full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). “China warmly welcomes this and we will work with other countries to actively promote such request”, the Vice-Foreign Minster Cheng Guoping said while replying to a question at a press conference here. The press conference was also addressed by Vice Foreign Min ...

MURREE, Aug 27 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held a second round of one-on-one talks here on Tuesday  and discussed matters of bilateral interest. The meeting took place  at the picturesque hill resort as the Afghan President extended his stay on the request of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The two leaders  stayed overnight at Murree to hold more talks the next ...

    ISLAMABAD, Aug 17 (APP): Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), on Saturday confirmed that Kanwal, wife of Sikandar has been discharged from the Hospital. Talking to journalists, PIMS  spokeperson  Dr. Wasim  Khwaja said that Islamabad police have taken her into its custody and shifted to safe place. He said that Kanwal has recorded a statement with to police in detail ,in which she informed abo ...