Pakistan FM lauds UAE for helping bridge $20 billion BoP crisis
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Qureshi asks missions to take the community’s problems seriously and solve them.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Saturday thanked friendly countries including the UAE, Saudi Arabia and China in overcoming $20 billion of balance of payment (BoP) crisis faced by the South Asian country due to the Covid-19 crisis.
Qureshi was speaking in Dubai at an Iftar dinner hosted by the Pakistan Business Council. The foreign minister arrived in Dubai on Saturday on a three-day official visit to the UAE.
During the visit, Qureshi will meet Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and other senior UAE officials.
‘Complete powers being transferred to south Punjab Secretariat’
National
April 13, 2021
MULTAN: Punjab Energy Minister Dr Akhtar Malik Monday said all departments and powers were being transferred to the south Punjab Secretariat.
Addressing meeting of Multan Development Package in the Committee Room of DC office, the minister said elected representatives of Multan and city district administration had started preparing proposals for Multan Development Package rtaht would be presented in the next Punjab Cabinet meeting scheduled in Multan in the current month.
Consultations were held regarding the announcement of development package for consultation. The minister said only policy and legislation would be in the provincial capital Lahore and the Prime Minister would lay the foundation stone of the South Punjab Secretariat after Eidul Fitr.
National
April 13, 2021
MULTAN: Punjab Energy Minister Dr Akhtar Malik Monday said all departments and powers were being transferred to the south Punjab Secretariat.
Addressing meeting of Multan Development Package in the Committee Room of DC office, the minister said elected representatives of Multan and city district administration had started preparing proposals for Multan Development Package rtaht would be presented in the next Punjab Cabinet meeting scheduled in Multan in the current month.
Consultations were held regarding the announcement of development package for consultation. The minister said only policy and legislation would be in the provincial capital Lahore and the Prime Minister would lay the foundation stone of the South Punjab Secretariat after Eidul Fitr. He said the Punjab Cabinet meeting was scheduled in Multan and improving condition of Nishtar Hospital would also be discussed in the meeting.
COLOMBO: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Sri Lanka will open a new chapter in bilateral relations, officials told Arab News on Monday.
Khan is due to arrive at Bandaranaike International Airport at 4 p.m on Tuesday, and will be given a special guard-of-honor ceremony.
He will meet key leaders, including Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, and will attend an investors’ forum on Wednesday.
“Premier Imran Khan is making his maiden visit as prime minister to our country,” Rohan Welliwita, Rajapaksa’s media secretary, said. “This is a landmark visit which will open a new chapter in the Lanka-Pak relations.”
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