ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China will devise new methods to counter terrorism in their respective countries with mutual cooperation when the fresh round of dialogue between the two countries takes place in Beijing early next week.
Additional Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has left for Beijing to take part in the high echelon talks with the Chinese senior officials on the question of counter terrorism. It would be first interaction of the senior officials of the two countries for the purpose ever-since new government has taken up reign in China.
The new Chinese government is keenly interested in strengthening cooperative ties with Pakistan.
PML-Q struggling
in Pakhtunkhwa
PESHAWAR: Former ruling coalition party Pakistan Muslim League-Q of Shujaat Hussain has sunk into obscurity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after leading politicians left it one by one before the general elections.
The party hardly figures on the political scene in the province as its activities have almost frozen at a time when other political parties are intensifying election campaign. It failed to hold political rallies in Peshawar and other cities of the province for many months, which indicates the inability of the party to attract people.
Apparently it seems to have weakened so terribly that hardly any of its candidates is in a position to win election.
Britain gives £117.5m for jobless youth
LONDON: A British Pakistani entrepreneur has been entrusted with the task of leading efforts to deal with the serious issue of youth unemployment by the British Prime Minister, David Cameron.
James Caan has been appointed as chairman of The Start-Up Loans Company, which administers the Start-Up Loans scheme. The Start-Up Loans Company has been given a total of £117.5m by the government to help young people build their own businesses in a time where there are limited opportunities and little support available to do so.
Study to promote solar heaters
KARACHI: Pakistan’s Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) will undertake a two-phase study in collaboration with the World Bank for promoting and introducing solar water heaters in the country, a step that will divert some demand away from conventional sources of energy.
For the study, AEDB has signed an agreement with the World Bank.
Agencies
