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Tourists still arriving in Murree to enjoy weather

  • ISLAMABAD,(MILLAT+APP): The prolonged spell of snowfall halted on Wednesday in Murree but a number of tourists are still arriving in the city to enjoy the weather. According to a private news channel, People continue to enjoy the weather at Mall Road despite of the temperature reaching to -4øC. In Malika-i-Kohsar region and adjoining areas, about […]

  • Int’l mountaineers, tourists increase upto 40% this year:PTDC

    ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP):Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) has witnessed fourty percent increase International mountaineers and foreign tourits comparatively previous years due to better law and order situation. Northern Areas has attracted international tourists and mountainers from across the world. Talking to APP an official said tourism industry was gradually recovering . He said last year, a […]

  • Jailed in Chhattisgarh for sedition, Sopore boy `won’t go back’ to India

    ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): Tawseef Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Gund Brath in Sopore, was jailed in August on sedition charges by Chhattisgarh police. He was released three months later in November from central jail of Durg in Chhattisgarh. Since then, he has been living at his home in Sopore and says that he will not go […]

  • Yousaf in Saudi Arabia to discuss arrangements for Hajj-2017

    ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Sardar Muhammad Yousaf is currently on an official visit to Saudi Arabia to discuss arrangements for the Hajj- 2017. The minister, during a nine-day visit from January 16 to 24, would hold meetings with his Saudi counterpart and other authorities, and discuss matters relating to Hajj […]

  • PM to apprise UN Secretary General of plight of Kashmiris: Fatemi

    ZURICH, MILLAT+(APP): Prime Minister’s Special Assistant Tariq Fatemi Tuesday said Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif would highlight the critical situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) during his upcoming meeting with the United Nations (UN) Secretary General on the sidelines of World Economic Forum (WEF). “If the situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir is not addressed according […]

  • President for BISP’s expanded net; steps for self-reliance of beneficiaries

    ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): President Mamnoon Hussain Tuesday urged expension of the Benazir Income Support Programme to reach out to the poor who have not yet been reached and take measures for self-dependence of those already benefitting from it. Addressing the launch of BISP Impact Evaluation Report here, the president said in order to make the poor […]