The Presidential Employment Stimulus was launched by President Ramaphosa in October 2020 PRETORIA, South Africa, The Presidential Employment Stimulus (PES) has – since its launch in October 2020 – created opportunities for over 1 million direct beneficiaries across South Africa. Marking this important milestone, President Cyril Ramaphosa said: “While the work of creating jobs continues,
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‘Following a secret information, the raid was conducted and the narcotics recovered’ LANDIKOTAL: Police raided a male guest house in Landikotal and recovered different kinds of narcotics and arrested a person, police said on Saturday. Addtional Station House Officer of Landikotal police station Zulfiqar Afridi said that on the basis of secret information they conducted
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‘Zaheerul Islam urged all the training participants to uphold full dedication, sincerity, loyalty and politeness while working in the offices’ PESHAWAR: German Non-profit organization GIZ-Pakistan in collaboration with the Local Governance School (LGS) and the Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Department (LGE&RDD) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), organized three trainings (3-day each) workshops on the
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‘The annexation is coming on the heels of referendums in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia’ The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, is set to stage a ceremony in an ornate Kremlin hall to announce Russia’s takeover of around 15% of Ukraine, the biggest European annexation since World War II. Putin disclosed that the four Ukrainian regions
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‘The Pakistani government and people of Pakistan extend their profound and heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families’ ISLAMABAD: At least twenty people were reportedly killed while dozens others injured in a blast took place in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Initial reports said that more than 20 people were killed while around thirty others wounded
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‘The Chinese health clinic is situated near the famouse Peshawari Ice-cream shop in Karachi Saddar’ KARACHI: A Chinese killed while two others wounded when gunmen sprayed bullets on a health clinic being run by Chinese in Saddar area, sources said on Wednesday. An official told this scribe that unidentified gunmen broke into the health clinic
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TORKHAM BORDER: Hundreds of daily wagers and porters on Monday staged a protesting sit-in in Torkham against the strict conditions and visa for labourers who frequently cross the border. A number of local bodies representatives and leders also attended the sti-in staged in busy Torkham border. The protesters marched in Torkham border and holding banners
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…“It is a matter of great pleasure that the library established in the KAC will surely prove to be an excellent source of study for the students and faculty”, – Abbasi MUZAFFARABAD, The Vice Chancellor University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (UAJK), Prof. Dr. Muhammad Kaleem Abbasi visited the Ibn-e-Khaldoon Library of the university established
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PESHAWAR: Besides the Pakistani authorities, Family members and well-wishers of the young man from Mardan who was shot dead recently in Canada on Monday asked the Canadian government to take steps to arrest the murderers and provide protection to Muslims to curb such tragic incidents in future. “A 20-year-old, Mustafa Khan, known as Prince, was
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ISLAMABAD, The American actor and humanitarian Angelina Jolie visited Pakistan to meet victims of the recent floods and raise fundings for the relief and rehabilitation of millions of people of Pakistan. As part of Angelina’s tour, she visited the National Flood Response Coordination Centre on Wednesday. Ahsan Iqbal, who serves as the deputy chairman of
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The meeting was convened as part of an effort to strengthen security in the province and respond proactively CAPE TOWN, South Africa, The Deputy Minister in the Presidency Responsible for State Security, Mr. Zizi Kodwa and the Premier of Gauteng, Mr. David Makhura, have today, Friday, 23 September 2022 made a pledge to strengthen ties
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LANDIKOTAL: At least fourteen persons including five women were seriously injured when two groups scuffled with each other in Pirokhel village in Landikotal on Friday, police said. Landikotal police station Muharrer Turab Khan Shinwari told this scribe that Mukaram Mian party and Shahbaz Pirokhel parties first exchanged harsh and hard words over the ownership of
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LANDIKOTAL: Torkham Mazdoor(Labourers) union and porters on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration in Torkham border against the hard and fast restrictions on the border with Afghanistan. A large number of labourers and daily wagers gathered at Zero point near Torkham Nadra offices and asked the authoritiee to relax the border crossing for local residents. The
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The Acting President underscored the importance of road safety, and that it should be a priority for all road users to curb the high fatality rate as a result of road accidents PRETORIA, South Africa, Acting President David Mabuza has noted with concern the accidents that have occurred on South African roads involving trucks. The
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PESHAWAR: A ceremony was held here in Peshawar in which a number of projects completed in the Newly Merged Districts(NMDs) were reviewed. The ceremony was hosted by the US consulate genreal in Peshawar. A number of officials of the US consulate general Peshawar and concerned departments officials of the Khyber Pakhunkhwa government attended the project completion cermony.
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