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PM for shuning political rivalries in national interest

  • SPINWAM, North Waziristan, March 3 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Friday said it was high time for all to shun political rivalries and focus energies on eliminating poverty and illiteracy from the country. “It is need of the hour to refrain from negative politics and get united in the interest of Pakistan,” he said […]

  • 25 percent of the digital industries’ workforce are women: UN Women

    ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT/APP): Women and girls contributing a major poriton of digital revolution as currently 25 percent of the industries’ workforce are women. “Currently only 18 percent of undergraduate computer science degrees are held by women. We must see a significant shift in girls all over the world taking STEM subjects, if women are to compete […]

  • Certified Data Center established at University of Lahore

    ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT/APP): University of Lahore (UOL) has set-up a certified Tier-III Data Center and added innovation and technology to its already well-established educational infrastructure. This new Data Centre is capable of hosting not only Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for labs of 11 diverse faculties and 32 departments, private cloud for UOL’s over 30,000 students in more […]

  • ECO have huge potential to enhance trilateral trade: President FPCCI

    ISLAMABAD, Mar 3 (APP):President,Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Zubair F Tufail on Friday said that Economic Cooperation Origination(ECO) countries have huge potential to enhance trilateral trade and exports volumes for prosperity and economic development. Free trade between ECO countries with each other were only 2 percent of total world,which need to […]

  • Hospitals, dispensaries activated in DMC east

    KARACHI, March 3 (APP): The hospitals, maternity homes, dispensaries and basic health units under the administrative control of the District Municipal Corporation (DMC) Karachi East are being renovated and activated. This was stated by the Chairman of the DMC East, Syed Nayyer Raza, on Friday. He made these remarks during a visit to the Saudabad, […]

  • 56,111 emergency victims rescued in last month

    LAHORE, Mar 3 (APP): Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) rescued 56,111 victims of different emergencies during 54,514 operations in the last month in the province. The emergency calls to which Rescue 1122 responded include: 19,089 accidents, 27,993 medical emergencies, 998 fire incidents, 1509 crimes, 53 drowning incidents, 33 building collapses, 11 explosions and 4,828 miscellaneous […]