Baghdad, 20 April 2019 (Anadolu News) The Baghdad summit of parliaments of neighboring countries of Iraq on Saturday concluded with a final declaration stressing the stability of the country. Turkey’s parliament speaker Mustafa Sentop also attended the Baghdad summit which brought together parliament speakers of Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan and Syria. The...

Kabul, Afghanistan, 20 April 2019 (Anadolu News) A Pakistan-funded newly-built 200-bed hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul has been inaugurated on Saturday. Mohammad Ali Jinnah Hospital is built with an estimated cost of $24 million in the Western part of the Afghan capital has been dubbed as a “symbol of lasting peace” between the two neighbors....

Islamabad, 18 April 2019 (Daily Dawn) The Prime Minister's Office announced a major reshuffle of the federal cabinet on Thursday, with key portfolios of the finance, interior and information ministries seeing new faces. This development came only hours after Asad Umar stepped down as the finance minister. The portfolio of information minister has been taken away...

Doha, 17 April 2019 6th Edition of the Qatar e-Nature schools contest concluded with an award ceremony recently held at Wyndham West Bay Hotel. A record participation of 339 students from 60 governmental schools and 53 private schools across Qatar including government and private schools was observed this year. Sasol, the international integrated chemicals and...

Doha, 16 April 2019 Eminent Pakistani  and Indian Urdu scholars, Dr. Tehsin Firaqi and Feroz Sultan Ejaz (Fay Seen Ejaz) have been declared winners of 23rd Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Award (Award for Promoting Urdu Literature),  established  by the Qatar-based Majlis-e-Frogh-e-Urdu Adab in 1996. Firaqi and Ejaz will receive the honour at a function to be held at...

Doha, 16 April 2019 (QP) Qatar Petroleum has won exploration rights in five offshore blocks in the North Argentina, and Malvinas West basins in Argentina. The winning bids were announced today by Argentina’s Secretariat of Government of Energy (“SGE”) at the end of a public tender process that started in November 2018. They will be subject...

Doha, 16 April 2019 Maj. Gen. Majid Ibrahim Al Khulaifi, Director of Elections Department, Ministry of Interior and Head of the Central Municipal Council (CMC) Electoral Committee announced the winners of the CMC 2019 election in a press conference held in the Media Centre of the election in officers club of the Ministry of Interior...

Doha, 15 April 2019 The international conference on “National, regional and international mechanisms to combat impunity and ensure accountability under international law” was organized from 14 to 15 April 2019 in Doha by Qatar National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the...

Doha, 15 April 2019 (Ashgal) The Public Works Authority ‘Ashghal’ has inaugurated main carriageway and three vital interchanges on Al Khor Road. Present on the occasion were Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, ministers, government officials, “Ashghal” representatives and  project contractors. The opening of the 33-kilometre Al...

Doha, 15 April 2019 'Tarsheed campaign for conservation of water and electricity in Qatar by General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) has helped Qatar  in savings of QR 1.75 b in 2018', announced by Essa bin Hilal al-Kuwari, President of Kahramaa. He was addressing at the glittering 7th Annual celebrations of conservation program held at Hotel...