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Pak envoy calls Chinese premier’s visit “milestone” -

BEIJING, May 21 (APP): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s upcoming visit to Pakistan will prove to be a milestone in the relationship between the two “old friends,” Pakistan’s Ambassador to China Masood Khalid said in an interview. During his first overseas tour as premier, Li’s choice of Pakistan as one of his stops would “once again provide a great opportunity to renew the time-honored friendship between the two countries,” Khalid said ahead of Li’s visit on May 22-23.

Pakistan can play key role in developing China’s ties with regional countries, Islamic world -

BEIJING, May 21 (APP): Ahead of an official visit of Premier Li Keqiang to Pakistan, a Chinese scholar has said that Pakistan can play an important role in developing its relations with regional countries, including the Islamic world. Premier Li, who is at present in India on his first leg of four countries’ visit, will arrive Pakistan on Wednesday. According to officials here, Premier Li’s nine-day itinerary also included visiting Switzerland and Germany.

Pakistan backs Palestine’s bid for fresh move to resolve Mideast conflict -

UNITED NATIONS, May 21 (APP): Pakistan has endorsed a call by Palestine’s lead negotiator for renewed international focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an effort to correct the historic justice, paving the way for peace in the Middle East. “We understand the excruciating pain of Palestinians as they pass through these difficult times of occupation and extreme privation,” Ambassador Masood Khan told the Palestinian Rights Committee on Monday. “Continued attention of the international community is extremely important.” The Pakistani envoy spoke after Saeb Erakat, a prominent Palestinian official, said they were exerting every possible effort to ensure the success of current efforts to re-start peace negotiations with Israel. Calling on member states to make their positions on the issue clear, Erakat underlined how important it was that US Secretary of State John Kerry succeed in bringing about a resumption of talks.

UN calls for priority to public health amid competing global challenges -

UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (APP): A senior UN official Monday called for ensuring adequate attention and resources to public health for ensuring welfare of the millions amid myriad global challenges, from climate change to food insecurity. “We are living in deeply troubled times,” said Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). “In these troubled times, public health looks more and more like a refuge, a safe harbour of hope that allows, and inspires, all countries to work together for the good of humanity.”

33 dead, 12 missing in Soth China storms -

BEIJING, May 20 (APP): Thirty three people have died and 12 others were reported missing in the latest round of rain and hailstorms that have swept south China, said the country's civil affairs and disaster reduction authorities. The rainstorms have triggered flooding and landslides in some places, sources with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Committee for Disaster Reduction said Thursday.

Sport News

Akhtar Rasool led team management to continue till World Cup

LAHORE, May 21 (APP): Pakistan Hockey Federation has decided to retain Akhtar Rasool led team management till next year’s World Cup adding few professionals in the team management staff to boost the performance of the team.
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Yousaf denies announcing retirement from international cricket

LAHORE, May 21 (APP): Veteran test cricketer ,Muhammad Yousaf has denied retirement from international cricket and said despite not being involved in any form of cricket in recent years he has no plans to call it a day.
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PKF to organize talent hunt programme

LAHORE, May 21 (APP): Pakistan Judo Federation will organize the third talent hunt programme, both for men and women, from June 2-4 at Qayyum stadium peshawar.
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Adaptability to conditions key in Pakistan success in Champions Trophy

KARACHI, May 21 (APP): Former skipper Aamer Sohail firmly believes that Pakistan’s chances in the Champions Trophy depend on their adoptability to the conditions. “Conditions would play a very important role in Pakistan’s chances for this premier 8-nation contest,” Aamer Sohail told APP in an interview on Tuesday.
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Tauqir Zia demands ad hoc arrangements in PCB

KARACHI, May 21 (APP): Former Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Lt. Gen (Retd) Tauqir Zia has demanded ad hoc arrangements in the present set-up of the board. When the incumbent management of the PCB is celebrating the democratic transition a few former, current players and administrators casting doubts on the mechanism adopted by the PCB for the elections held in Islamabad on May 8 three-day before the General Elections in the country.

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Sufis’ message of tolerance, inclusion has universal relevance: Sherry

WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (APP): Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman told an American audience at a cultural event Saturday night that Sufism embraces the spirit of tolerance and inclusion, and its message is increasingly relevant in this age of competing ideologies. She was speaking at the Smithsonian Institute, where popular Pakistani Sufi singer Sanam Marvi gave a mesmerizing performance, attended by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar. The new US ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson, senior American officials and a large number of Pakistani and American followers of the mystic poetry and music attended the performance by the acclaimed singer.

In her remarks, Ambassador Sheery Rehman made it clear that Sufism is not a sect of Islam.
“Its practice encapsulates the very essence of our faith,” the envoy said. “For over a decade now,” she said, “we have seen the marketplace of global ideas distorted by new walls of hatred and prejudice... This negativity causes many to lose hope in the project of peaceful civilizations, that instead of clashing, nurtures the best in humanity.
She said that Pakistan’s founding father, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, actively advocated a plural model of citizenship, asserting that all Pakistani citizens shall enjoy the same rights and privileges, regardless of their religious affiliation. Sherry Rehman explained to the attentive audience the message of Sufism as she observed that “being grounded in the mystical connection between the individual and the divine, Sufism embraces the spirit of tolerance and inclusion in both its discourse and practice”.
This is one of the reasons why Sufi saints played a central role in the spread of Islam, especially in South Asia, making it the second biggest and the most practiced religion in the world, she added.
“The Sufi doctrine is simple and universal, that the light of God abides in the heart of each person. The Sufi ‘tariqa’ or the Sufi way guides us on the roads of the inner journey towards discovering the self, for the ultimate goal of reaching the divine light and wisdom that each one of us carries within.”
“What could, indeed, be a more appropriate and opportune time to think and reflect about the message of unity, peace, togetherness and patience exemplified by the life and teachings of Sufi saints and their philosophy of life?” Ambassador Rehman stressed.

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