Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Defence Production Zubaida Jalal while speaking to a local news channel revealed that Pakistan has received three times more foreign exchange this financial year by exporting defence related products. “More than $200 million (Rs31 billion) has been earned by defence production’s export and this amount would increase in coming years”, she informed at the sidelines of the Dubai airshow.
After British royal couple, Queen Maxima of Netherlands will be visiting Pakistan next month. The Queen is expected to meet President Dr Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan, as well as State Bank Governor Reza Baqir, Adviser to PM on Finance Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and NADRA Chairman Usman Mubin. She will discuss progress of financial services to improve economic situation of Pakistan.
Pakistan on Monday conducted a successful training launch of a surface to surface ballistic missile Shaheen-I, a statement by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated. The launch was conducted as part of a training exercise “aimed at testing the operational readiness of Army Strategic Forces Command”. The Shaheen-I missile is capable of delivering all types of warheads up to a range of 650 kilometres.
The federal government has taken another big step towards empowering Pakistani women with the launch of the “Baytee” program. A mobile application will serve as a centralized information hub regarding important services for women according to senior officials of Ministry of Information Technology. The application will provide news about laws and regulations regarding women rights, help them find nearby jobs, scholarships, nearby health services and information about police stations and hostels.
Officials in Lahore have decided to use artificial rain to decrease the smog level in the provincial capital. Commissioner Lahore Division Asif Bilal Lodhi has said that the idea will be executed if smog levels go out of control. Lodhi says there will be no compromise on people’s health and urged the traffic police, transport, and agriculture departments, to take concrete measures.
Pakistan has become the first country in the world to introduce the typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into its routine immunization program. According to a press release the government of Pakistan is launching the vaccine in Sindh in response to an outbreak of typhoid in November 2016. The phased introduction will begin with a two week campaign targeting 10.1 million children under 15 years of age.
According to statistics from the media, Pakistan’s commercial import of mobile phones has increased by 110 percent in one year. In 2018, 9,564,424 mobile phones were imported, whereas, in 2019, the number stands at 19,834,465 mobiles and the reason behind is said to be successful implementation of the new mobile phone registration system by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).
Syed Ahmed Chan Bukhari, a US-based Pakistani professor, has been presented the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering’s (IEEE) Technology Innovation Award for his work in the standardization of biomedical data. Syed Ahmed Chan hails from Gujrat,Pakistan and is currently serving as Program Director Healthcare Informatics at the Saint John’s University of New York and has also served in prestigious universities like Yale and Stanford.
Olympian swimmer Kiran Khan from Lahore has taken the ongoing National Games in Peshawar by storm by winning 10 gold medals for her team Army. She previously achieved a similar feat in the National Games of 2001 where she won 13 medals in total, which included 7 gold, 3 silver, and 3 bronze medals and now has a total of 47 international medals and 337 national gold medals to her name now.
The Sikh community around the globe is calling for the world to acknowledge Imran Khan’s commitment towards peace and stability and his endeavour to open Kartarpura corridor despite worsening bilateral ties between Pakistan and India. A number of organisations, including Sikhs for Justice, have decided to write a letter to the committee responsible for finalising the Nobel laureates in this regard.