Islamabad: The Islamabad Wildlife Management Board has issued ‘temporary passes’ to volunteers who would help remove trash and wastage from walking trails during a 9-day cleanliness.
Islamabad : The Islamabad Wildlife Management Board has issued ‘temporary passes’ to volunteers who would help remove trash and wastage from walking trails during a 9-day cleanliness.
Envoy picks up two plastic bags stuffed with water bottles, waste material
ISLAMABAD:
UK High Commissioner to Pakistan Christian Turner on Friday has urged the residents of the federal capital to keep Islamabad clean by avoiding littering at open and green places. Meals are for sharing not littering. Two bags of rubbish were collected on Margallas during Friday s morning walk - please help keep beautiful Islamabad clean, he tweeted along with the picture of two plastic bags stuffed with empty water bottles, tin cans and other waste material.
He also drew the attention of Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Hamza Shafqaat towards the issue of littering on green belts.
Tarin for improving ties with UK
He apprised the high commissioner of the Ehsaas Emergency Cash programme
Shaukat Tarin speaks at a meeting in Washington in 2009. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan attaches special importance to bilateral relations with the United Kingdom and economic and business linkages between the two countries should be strengthened further, said Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin. Talking to British High Commissioner to Pakistan Christian Turner at the Finance Division, he appreciated the support extended by the British government and its people to Pakistan during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. He apprised the high commissioner of the Ehsaas Emergency Cash programme and the initiative of direct cash transfers to the under-privileged women. “Ehsaas programme has played a significant role in mitigating the economic hardships of the marginalised groups of society amid Covid-19,” he said.
Seek Extradition for Nawaz Sharif, Turner Advises Rashid
Seek Extradition for Nawaz Sharif, Turner Advises Rashid
Courtesy Ministry of Interior
During meeting with interior minister, British High Commissioner clarifies decision to place curbs on travelers from Pakistan
British High Commissioner to Pakistan Christian Turner on Wednesday advised Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed to request Nawaz Sharif’s extradition from the British government during a meeting in which matters of mutual interest were discussed.
“I asked British High Commissioner Christian Turner to deport Nawaz Sharif, as he is a fugitive of the court,” Rashid told a press conference in Islamabad. Claiming that they had discussed the issue in depth, he said that the envoy had told him both governments wished to discuss the matter but “he did not give a very positive response.”