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Director General, ICT, Asim Ayub has chaired a high-level meeting to bolster security measures for Chinese nationals and businesses in the Federal Capital. The meeting, held at the Chief Commissioner’s office, aimed to assess current safety protocols, pinpoint vulnerabilities, and devise a robust strategy to safeguard Chinese citizens and companies, said the Public Relation Officer of the Chief Commissioner Office, Nouman Nazim. Before you click away, disappointed that I brought up something as practical and boring as time management, hear me out. My intent is not to crush your spirits. The meeting was attended by DIG (Security) from Islamabad Police,…

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ISLAMABAD, Apr 16 : The civil society has demanded the government should start school-based education programmes for the prevention of child abuse and to aware juniors to recognize and avoid predators. Talking to APP here on Tuesday, the educationist expert Farkhanda Orangzaib has said that concerned authorities, stressing the education awareness programme and teachers and school administrators have been directed to start informative lectures to prevent violence against minors. Under the awareness program, the government should introduce steps to identify suspicious persons while students would be encouraged to share information about violence within school premises. Ayub Malik the Human Rights…

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Pakistani Rupee on Friday gained 13 paisa against the US dollar in the interbank trading and closed at Rs 278.30 against the previous day’s closing of Rs278.43, after witnessing a nominal devaluation for the last few days. However, according to the Forex Association of Pakistan (FAP), the buying and selling rates of the dollar in the open market stood at Rs277.6 and Rs280.35 respectively. The price of the Euro decreased by Rs1.05 to close at Rs296.43 against the last-day closing of Rs297.48, according to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). The Japanese Yen remained unchanged to close at Rs1.80, whereas…

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The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) turned around to bullish trend on Friday, gaining 619.79 points, a positive change of 0.88 percent, closing at 70,909.90 points against 70,290.12 points the previous trading day. A total of 475,833,699 shares valuing Rs.23.220 billion were traded during the day as compared to 440,314,409 shares valuing Rs.24.362 billion the last day. Some 370 companies transacted their shares in the stock market; 200 of them recorded gains and 149 sustained losses, whereas the share prices of 21 remained unchanged. The three top trading companies were Pak Refinery with 49,662,377 shares at Rs.30.09 per…

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ISLAMABAD, Apr 18 : The per tola price of 24 karat gold witnessed a decrease of Rs 1,700 and was sold at Rs 250,200 on Thursday as compared to its sale at Rs. 251,900 on the previous day. The price of 10 grams of 24 karat gold decreased by Rs1,458 and was sold at Rs 214,506 against the sale price of Rs215,964 and 10 gram 22 karat gold also decreased to Rs196,631 from Rs197,238, the All Sindh Sarafa Jewellers Association reported. The price of per tola and ten gram silver remained constant at Rs.2,780 and Rs.2,383.40 respectively. The price of…

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