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Top Story December 28, 2020 ISLAMABAD: The government has approved the sale of majority shareholding of the state-owned Pakistan Credit Guarantee Company (PCGC) to the UK-funded entity — Karandaaz — by converting billions of rupees worth of unspent grants into equity. The sale was approved despite the fact that the Ministry of Finance had raised key questions in writing at the initial stage. Out of grant money of £50 million, the unspent funds stood at Rs3.5 billion lying with the State B...

Top Story December 28, 2020 ISLAMABAD: The government has approved the sale of majority shareholding of the state-owned Pakistan Credit Guarantee Company (PCGC) to the UK-funded entity — Karandaaz — by converting billions of rupees worth of unspent grants into equity. The sale was approved despite the fact that the Ministry of Finance had raised key questions in writing at the initial stage. Out of grant money of £50 million, the unspent funds stood at Rs3.5 billion lying with the State B...

Dec. 25, 2020 Three times his house has been demolished. The last time, a few weeks ago, he tried resisting. Less than two weeks later, Border Police personnel who identified him traveling in a taxi, dragged him out of the vehicle, shoved him up against it, held his hands behind his back and proceeded to punch him. The beating went on for a quarter of an hour, he says; he absorbed blows all over his body, but the kind that leave no visible marks. Every so often, when a car passed by, the offic...

2020-12-24 13:19 　 By: GMW.cn 　 Supachai Panitchpakdi: Former Director General of the World Trade Organization, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand Zhigang Fu: Reporter of Guangming Daily in Bangkok China and Asia will be the linchpin in leading trade recovery Zhigang Fu: Dear Mr. Supachai, it is a great honor to invite you to participate in the dialogue of Guangming international forum. In March, when novel coronavirus pneumonia was most s...

news Foreign Minister calls on Netherlands, Turkey Ambassadors Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena met with Ambassador of the Netherlands Tanja Gonggrijp and Ambassador of Turkey R. Demet Sekercioglu Tuesday to discuss several areas of ongoing cooperation, the Foreign Ministry stated in a press release. The Foreign Minister appreciated the assistance provided by the Government of the Netherlands to upgrade hospitals in the Northern Province and the...

As Trump Goes, Indian Military Wonders If Biden Will Bell the CAATSA India remains not only an important strategic ally and a steady materiel buyer but is also increasingly emerging as the USs ‘front-line’ state against China. U.S. President-elect Joe Biden. Photo: Reuters/Tom Brenner Security23/Dec/2020 Chandigarh: One of the less obvious, but significant impediments in India’s putative relationship with the USA’s incoming Joe Biden-led Democratic Party administration...

By Emmanuel Addeh The Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC) has said its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has been largely beneficial to the country in the areas of healthcare, water purification, improving quality of products, among others. Speaking during one-day media parley on the implementation of Nigeria’s national nuclear energy programme and the benefit of Nigeria’s technical cooperation, the Acting Chairman/ Chief Executive Officer, of NAEC, Mr. Muk...

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21 Dec 2020 Dazhu Yang, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation, signing Croatia’s Country Programme Framework (CPF) for the period of 2020-2025 on 7 December 2020. (Photo: O. Yusuf/IAEA) Damir Trut, Assistant Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, and Dazhu Yang, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation, signed Croatia’s Country Programme Framework (CPF) for the period of 2020-2025 on ...

By Bola A. Akinterinwa At the epicentre of Nigeria’s foreign policy in 1960 was Africa as the cornerstone and thereafter, in 1976, as the centrepiece. Africa, as cornerstone and centrepiece, was largely defined by Nigeria’s policy of no compromise with the obnoxious policies of apartheid in South Africa and the need for decolonisation. In the eyes of many scholars, Nigeria had a foreign policy with the anti-apartheid war and struggle for decolonisation. This was the first pillar of Nigeria�...