Tag: Food
Food exports up 33 per cent to $388.829b in July
Food exports surged by 33.12 per cent during the first month of the current fiscal year (2011-12) to reach at $388.829 million as against...
Govt should control food prices: ICCI
Persistent rise in prices of general commodities over the last few years have adversely affected the purchasing power of the common man.
It has become...
No check on unhygienic fried food
With the advent of holy month of Ramadan, selling of substandard fried eatables is on full swing along roadsides, while there is no check...
Food wastage on the rise
Approximately, 40 percent food prepared at different banquets is wasted when people’s rush towards food and stock up their plates with more food than...
US food chains boom despite rising anti-Americanism
Anti-American sentiment may have reached historic highs in Pakistan, but for many Pakistanis, the indignation does not extend to their bellies, says The Washington...
Egypt’s Mubarak refuses food
Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak, due to go on trial next week for murder, is refusing food in his hospital detention and has become extremely...
NA committee warns CDA over food adulteration
Expressing displeasure over the failure of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) to formulate rules against food adulteration, a...
Food bylaws in tatters
Shopkeepers in the city are openly violating food bylaws as most do not clean their shops and leave foodstuffs uncovered while the Health Directorate...
Terrorism deals a blow to Melody Food Park
A horrendous suicide bombing at Melody Market in 2008 and the Lal Masjid operation in 2007 have dealt a blow to commercial activity in...
Food, textile grow by 46.05pc in FY2011
According to a product wise analysis of exports, which have achieved the historic figure $24.83 billion during July–June (2010-2011), the Textile and Agricultural sectors...
Global Food Safety awards 2011 & moot on 23rd
Speaker Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Federal Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim and many other prominent personalities are likely to present awards to...
Soaring food prices irk citizens
Soaring vegetables and fruits prices in Peshawar have disgruntled citizens, who seem helpless as relevant authorities have stayed apathetic. Two weeks away from Ramadan,...
Two food inspectors for a city of 1.5m
Noman, a 22-year-old student of a local private college, was brought to the casualty ward of a public hospital with acute abdominal pain and...
Food inflation multiplying the miseries
Food inflation in Pakistan has witnessed a record rise, triggering prices of essential daily food items including rice, sugar, cooking oil, milk, pulse masoor,...
WFP to initiate food programme for Kurram people
The United Nations is launching a food distribution programme by the end of the month for the people affected by military operation in Kurram...
6 Pak companies set to attend food & beverage trade fair...
Six leading Pakistani companies are set to showcase their products at the 12th Malaysian International Food and Beverage Trade Fair 2011 which opens in...
‘Corporate farming in Pakistan to increase poverty, food insecurity’
Pakistan has silently started allotting vast areas of land in Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan to countries with larger populations for corporate farming, which would...