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Pakistan and China Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in the fields of energy‚ mass transit‚ industrial cities and road sector projects, state media reported. Under the MoU‚ China North Industries Corporation ( NORINCO) would help Pakistan for setting up industrial cities along motorways‚ road sector and solar irrigation projects, Radio Pakistan […]
Ruba SEZ Group, one of Pakistan’s biggest investors mainly in the field of automobiles, tyres and tubes, has announced to launch 800cc hybrid cars in Pakistan by the end of 2014. Its arrival will revolutionise the automobile sector in the country as the car has the capability to run 400 km on one battery charge […]
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Friday directed to examine possibility of importing energy from neighbouring countries to improve the situation on immediate basis, the PM office said. He issued the directives while presiding over a high level meeting on energy situation at the Prime Minister’s Office. The meeting took stock of overall energy situation […]
The PML-N government faces the first and huge embarrassment in the Supreme Court over its decision to increase the petroleum products and also hike in the GST. The apex court heard a suo moto case regarding increase in petroleum prices summoned FBR officials to clarify the situation. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar […]
FAO is calling for countries in the global ‘wheat belt’ to step up monitoring and prevention for wheat rusts – fungal diseases that do especially well in particularly wet seasons. Yields could be affected across North Africa, the Middle East into West and South Asia, which account for more than 30 percent of global wheat […]
Pakistani exporters have learnt about opportunities to sell over 3,500 products duty-free in the United States at a seminar jointly sponsored by the U.S. and Pakistani governments, the US embassy said Thursday. Exporters from Peshawar, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) participated in a video seminar that detailed the advantages […]
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar Thursday failed to directly respond to question about the government’s decision not to increase salaries of the government employees. Responding to a question about zero raise in salaries of government servants at the post-budget press conference‚ the Minister said pension has been increased by ten percent besides minimum pension to five […]
Pakistan has emphatically conveyed to the United States its concerns on drone attacks and raised the issue of drone attacks at different world forums including the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. “We will continue to raise this issue with the US officials at all the appropriate forums. The […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman‚ Imran Khan who arrived in Islamabad on Thursday for the first time since he had been injured, visited family of a slain party worker in Rawalpindi. He told reporters that he will pursue the case and will ensure the affected family should get justice. Earlier‚ doctors at the Shaukhat Khanum hospital […]
The twelve members of KPK cabinet took oath in Peshawar on Thursday. The portfolios will be announced later. Governor Engineer Shaukatullah administered the oath to the new cabinet. The ruling coalition allies succeeded to finalize the cabinet late Wednesday. Seven of the total 15 ministers are from Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Shaukat Yousafzai, Shah Farman, […]
More than two decades after fleeing Afghanistan with her devoted father, Deeba* has been flown out of Pakistan to rejoin her brothers and sisters and receive specialist care for her disability. The 38-year-old, who suffers from an intellectual disability, arrived in New York earlier this year to a warm welcome from her siblings, who […]
A Taliban infiltrator killed at least six Afghan police men in southern Afghanistan early Thursday, officials said. The incident occurred in Helmand Province’s Musa Qala District. The Taliban claimed that an infiltrated policeman killed 10 police soldiers, including two commanders, and joined them. The head of Musa Qala District, Musa Kalim, told Afghan […]
