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Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Pakistan are strategic partners in true sense of geo-politics, geo-strategy and of course socio-economy. Rigorous commercial diplomacy is going on to translate the spirits of brotherhood… Read More »UAE-Pak Greater Economic Integration
Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan Sino-Pak defence cooperation has an overarching strategic dimension which was even incorporated in the joint statement titled “Deepening China-Pakistan Strategic and Economic Cooperation” issued on the state visit of President Mamnoon… Read More »Pakistan-China Defence Cooperation
Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan China’s Communist Party (CPC) leaders in 18th Central Committee “Third Plenum” announced diversified revolutionary reforms titled “Decision on Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reforms”. It covers 16 areas and 60 individual… Read More »China Reforms and its Regional and Global Ramifications
Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan In Uzbekistan, 14 January is widely marked as the Day of Motherland Defenders. Every man of the nation celebrates that day with zeal and pride. It is the day of national… Read More »Uzbekistan’s Day of Defenders of the Motherland
Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan Pakistan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have strategic partnership. Both enjoy genealogical relations that are entrenched in common faith, traditions and commonality of views on all issues of mutual interest.… Read More »Pak-Saudi Arabia Strategic Partnership
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the government is determined to make Lahore as clean as Istanbul and successfully operating modern sanitary system through the Turkish companies Albayrak and OZpak on the pattern of Turkey is a step to that end.
Speaking at a meeting held to review the new solid waste management system on Friday, the chief minister directed the department concerned eviction of the cattle from the city limits otherwise stern action would be taken against the officials who neglected their duties in this regard.Read More »Lahore to be given Istanbul look
Article by Maleeha Lodhi published in “The News” on 28th January, 2014.
The eroding institutional capacity of the state has emerged in recent years as one of the most critical challenges facing the country. This has affected the performance of the core functions of state and is most tellingly reflected in deterioration in the delivery of basic public services to citizens. It is also indicated by Pakistan’s tumbling position in the global rankings on governance indicators. Read More »The institutional imperative
Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan People of the Republic of Azerbaijan celebrate January 20 as the day of martyrs every year. On January 20, the people of Azerbaijan tend to mark the tragedy of Black January… Read More »Black January Stands for National Herorism and Courage
LAHORE: The Punjab government has announced to hold Basant festival at the Changa Manga forest from February 21 to March 5, and a formal notification in this regard has already been issued.
This notification has been issued on the continued pressure from the kite-flying association of the provincial metropolis, as well as the supporters of the dying industry of kites and strings manufacturing.
Another reason for allowing the festival was to provide entertainment facilities to the kite lovers, who had been legally stopped from flying kites following a number of deaths in the city caused by metallic twines. However, the citizens are still divided over whether to celebrate the festival at the designated place or not. Read More »Basant at Changa Manga
Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan The Qatar’s Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDP&S) forecasted that growth of real gross domestic product (GDP) during the current fiscal year would grow by 5.3 percent. Different Qatar’s official… Read More »Qatar: Socio-Economic Milestones