Islamabad, April 6 (IANS) Pakistan has decided to free 13 more Taliban prisoners as part of an ongoing peace initiative, a leading Pakistani daily reported Saturday. Emerging from a meeting of the government and Taliban negotiating committees, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan urged the the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leadership to reciprocate to the government’s action […]
As part of its approaching 200th Westpac has recently announced the launch of the single largest private education scholarship program in Australia’s history, the Westpac Bicentennial Foundation.anniversary year in 2017,The Westpac Group Chairman, Mr Lindsay Maxsted, Chief Executive Officer, Mrs Gail Kelly, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Julie Bishop MP, have launched the Westpac Bicentennial Foundation earlier […]
Paris, March 27 (IANS/EFE) Airbus received an order Wednesday from state-owned China Aviation Supplies Holding Company for the purchase of 70 aircraft at a catalogue price of more than $10 billion, the France-based plane maker said. The order, officially announced during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to France, includes 43 A320 medium-range jets at a catalogue […]
More than 100,000 people have attended the four days of baseball at the re-configured Sydney Cricket Ground, with more than 25,000 arriving from interstate or overseas, Minister for Tourism and Major Events, George Souris, announced today. “The enormous success of the Major League Baseball season’s opening games being played in Sydney combined with an unbeatable […]