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US to launch regional funds for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan

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  WASHINGTON: America special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad aforementioned on weekday that Washington can presently announce a high-level meeting of representatives from Asian nation, Asian nation and Asian country to encourage trade and development therein region. The us, which is able to additionally participate within the meeting, is additionally launching a fund to encourage investments within the South and Central Asian region. Ambassador Khalilzad is that the Trump administration’s Special Represen­ta­tive for Asian nation Reconciliation and has vie a key role in negotiating a peace affect the Taleban with Pakistan’s support. The deal, that entails a complete withdrawal of foreign troops from Afgha­n­is­tan by could 2021, was signed in Gregorian calendar month. The Trump administration desires to withdraw most of its troops from Asian nation inside this framework however faces a robust resistance from the Pentagon that opposes AN unconditional disengagement. “We foresee to presently ass

Google launches strong encryption for Android messages

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  WASHINGTON: Google aforementioned on Thursday it'd be rolling out end-to-end encoding for humanoid users, creating it more durable for anyone — together with enforcement — to browse the content of messages. “End-to-end encoding ensures that nobody, together with Google and third parties, will browse the content of your messages as they travel between your phone and therefore the phone of the person you’re electronic messaging,” aforementioned Google product lead Drew Rowny in asserting the rollout. Google’s move associate element} of an upgrade from SMS to the wealthy Communication Services (RCS) normal with extra options for pictures and videos. It will be offered for individuals act exploitation Android-powered devices. The move brings extra privacy and security to Google’s electronic messaging application, however comes amid rising complaints from enforcement agencies round the world that sturdy encoding might change criminals to cover their tracks. Digital rights activists ha

Elon musk zooms past Mark Zuckerberg to become the third richest person on the planet

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  Elon Musk, the chief military officer of electrical auto company Tesla has leapfrogged Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and has currently become the third-richest person within the world! The technical school mogul's fortune big by quite $15bn (£11.3bn) during a single week once Tesla’s shares jumped thirteen following the news of its choice to hitch the S&P five hundred index of leading U.S.A. corporations. Musk, UN agency owns two hundredth of Tesla’s shares and based rocket company SpaceX, has intimate with|old|older|practiced|practised|seasoned|veteran|old|skilled|tough|toughened} a rise of about $90bn in his fortune up to now this year. According to The Guardian, Tesla has the best market price of any auto company within the world – prior Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors – despite creating simply a fraction of the quantity of vehicles. However, the news was bittersweet within the series of event in the week, wherever Elon took to Twitter to announce that he tested each po

Nawaz suffers from severe kidney pain

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  LONDON: West Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) supreme leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on had a string of unscheduled  hospital visits here when he developed acute pain in his excretory organ, family sources told Dawn. “He is extremely unwell and has serious pain in his excretory organ thanks to deteriorating excretory organ operate. Doctors square measure conducting tests and scans to work out a course of action,” Dr Adnan Khan, man Sharif’s personal MD, said, adding that the PML-N leader had developed excretory organ stones. Mr Sharif visited consultants on Harley Street on Tues and Wed and is regular for additional scans on weekday (today). On Tuesday, Maryam Nawaz same during a tweet that her father was unable to participate during a meeting of the West Pakistan Democratic Movement attributable to “severe excretory organ pain” and else that she would attend in his place. Nawaz Sharif has been within the uk since Nov last year when obtaining bail from the court on medic

Rupee sees biggest fall in weeks

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  KARACHI: The rupee within the interbank market on weekday fell by Rs1.52, or one per cent, to shut at Rs159.83 against the greenback chiefly on panic-buying from importers prior to recommencement of talks with International fund. In the open market, the rupee lost one.95 and was marketing at Rs160.20 to a greenback compared to Rs158.25 on Tues, Exchange firms Association of Asian country knowledge showed. “After remaining just about stable over the last a pair of days, PKR was 1.5 down against the buck, touching the extent of 1 hundred sixty on weekday.This weakening of PKR against the buck appeared principally sentiment driven,” aforementioned national capital Tawfik of Arif Habib Ltd. “The recent news of United Nations agency officers visiting Asian country before long and recommencement of talks with the agency LED to panic-buying by importers and hedging their imports. Moreover, some banks square their short positions that place additional pressure on the rupee,” she said, adding

Pakistan education ministry proposes shutting down schools from Nov 24

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The Ministry of Education has planned to clean up instructional establishments from Nov twenty four to January thirty one amid a second wave of coronavirus infections in West Pakistan. Primary faculties are going to be closed from Nov twenty four, middle faculties from Dec two and better secondary faculties be closed from Dec fifteen, the ministry planned in its letter to the provinces. However, the education ministry officers wish lecturers to return to instructional institutes. The ministry planned occupation lecturers schools|to varsities} and colleges to organize for on-line categories. on-line education systems, like Teleschool and Teleradio, will be enforced, it suggested. The recommendations are going to be conferred during a meeting of provincial education ministers on Nov twenty three. West Pakistan reopened its faculties in Gregorian calendar month when a closure of over six months. The federal education ministry conjointly seeks to increase the continuing session to could th

SC assails KP for not holding LG elections

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 ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday warned the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government of initiating contempt of court proceedings if it didn't hold regime elections in accordance with the Constitution. A two-judge SC bench headed by Justice Qazi Faez Isa, that had obsessed a case with reference to implementation of Sections thirty-nine and forty one of the regime Act 2013, additionally summoned professional General Khalid Jawed Khan, the commission of West Pakistan and also the advocate general for KP on Dec fifteen. Sections thirty-nine and forty one of the KP-LG Rules take care of the responsibility of Nazim to require physical stock of movable and stabile properties of the regime and submit a report back to the native council, whereas each official or servant of an area government and each member of an area council and each person charged with administration and management of property of an area government are in person answerable for any loss or waste, monetary of any property ha

Pakistan sets aside $100m to buy covid-19 vaccine

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  ISLAMABAD: whereas associate calculable price of the Covid-19 vaccine isn't however obtainable, Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved a $100 million allocation and allowed advance payment for procurance of the immunogen at the earliest. Moreover, it's been set that totally different segments of society, like senior voters, health practitioners and other people full of chronic diseases, are going to be prioritised for the vaccine which will be obtainable in restricted numbers throughout the continued winter season. “As we have a tendency to tend to talk no company has declared the worth of vaccine. Moreover, not one company has the approval to sell the vaccine because the trial information is restricted. though international companies — Pfizer and BioNTech — have declared that the phase-III clinical trials of their vaccines had shown ninety per cent effectuality in preventing the malady among people who haven't contractile the virus, however they're within the method

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