The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank, has approved a $1.2 billion financing under the annual plan to provide Pakistan integrated trade solutions to support the energy and agriculture sectors.
The Global Health Security Index is an assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries prepared by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
The USA tops the list, Australia 2nd, and Finland is in 3rd spot. Pakistan is in the 130th spot in the index.
The two-day conference (21-22 December-2020) is being organized jointly by COMSTECH (the OIC Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation) and the Government of Kazakhstan in celebration of the 1150th anniversary of Abu Nasr Al-Farabi, the great Muslim philosopher and scientist who hailed from the lands now included in Kazakhstan.
Author of some renowned naats as well as humorous poetry, Professor Inayat Ali Khan Tonki passed away on July 26, 2020 in Karachi. He was 85 years old.
معروف شاعر پروفیسر عنایت علی خان 26 جولائی 2020 کو کراچی میں انتقال کر گئے۔
Eminent Olympian Abdul Waheed Khan, one of the two survivors of 1960 Rome Olympics gold medal-winning Pakistan hockey team, died on February 21, 2022 at the age of 87 in Karachi.
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has in November 2020 signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) for real-time verification of computerized National Identity Card and associated details.
