Tag: Global

Qatar Airways announces fabulous 3-day global sale

Qatar Airways will tomorrow (April 17) launch an amazing three-day global sale to more than 100 destinations worldwide. Passengers from Doha and around the...

Global warning

The World Bank (WB) on Saturday warned of the risk of a credit crunch in the European and Central Asian nations due to exposure...

Global growth seen subdued, still heavily reliant on Asia

The global economy is set to expand by a modest 3.3 percent this year as a still-smolderingeuro zone debt crisis and a relatively slow...

Inter-faith harmony necessary for global peace: Minister

Federal National Harmony Minister Akram Masih Gill said on Friday that his ministry was created to strengthen inter-faith harmony as well as for the...

Pakistanis rank 4th on global intelligence survey

Pakistanis have been ranked the fourth most intelligent people across the world in a globally-held survey. “Pakistanis are equal to the people of developed...

China says hikes fuel prices by most in three years

China on Tuesday hiked fuel prices by the biggest margin in nearly three years after a surge in the cost of global crude, the...

A World Bank for a new world

The world is at a crossroads. Either the global community will join together to fight poverty, resource depletion, and climate change, or it will...

The world according to the US

A superpower is as a superpower does It was not just semantics last week when I said America ‘rules’ rather than ‘runs’ Pakistan. The pun...

Indonesia brings global nuclear test ban one step closer

The nuclear test ban treaty CTBT is one step closer to being implemented, following its ratification by key signatory Indonesia, the commission overseeing the...

Pakistan improves in global corruption index

The opposition leaders’ accusation of corruption against the government clashed on Thursday with Transparency International’s report on global corruption, which ranked Pakistan on the...

50 students chosen for Global UGRAD-Pakistan ’11

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Bs Electrical Engineering student Nauman Ahmed is among the 50 students selected for the US Global Undergraduate Exchange...

In Karachi, new aspirations to be a global player

The grandest expression of the world’s population growth is in the word “megacity”. Dozens of these cities of more than 10 million now ring...

Fixing a global problem

Pakistan’s former captain Shahid Afridi said Friday that match-fixing was a global phenomenon. “It’s not only in Pakistan, it happens in other countries too...

E-commerce on a global scale

E-commerce is global in nature. Connected users from all over the world will resort to online shopping if businesses can offer safe, user-friendly online...

The coming global credit glut

With world leaders meeting at the end of this week at the G-20 summit in Cannes, France, the next economic minefield that they will...

Wall St action part of global ‘Arab Spring?’

After the "Arab Spring" and unrest in Europe, New York's "Occupy Wall Street" movement may be the latest sign of a global, popular backlash...

How to protect your wealth in times of global economic turbulence?

Global economic outlook The age of economic and financial turmoil has started. I don’t see the global financial markets settling down very soon. There...