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ISLAMABAD:The federal government has approved modalities for export of chloroquine 鈥?a medicine that is said to help in combating Covid-19 disease 鈥揵y relaxing a ban on case to case basis. Chloroquine is made by manufacturers of anti-malaria drugsThe National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) in its mee
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dunk rose e cabine LONDON:Asia s defence spending overtook Europe s for the first time last year, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said on Thursday, reflecting China s military rise and shrinking European economies.In its annual report on the world s militaries, it said China s
adidas campus grau defence spending in real terms rose 8.3 percent between 2011 and 2012, while in Asia as a whole, spending rose 4.94 percent last year.At the same time, nominal defence spending among European NATO members had shrunk to around 2006 levels due to budget cuts, the IISS said in The Military Balance 2013 . Indeed, the increase in Asian spending has been so rapid, and the defence austerity pursued by European states so severe, that in 2012 nominal Asian spending (
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