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First Women Bank Ltd. (FWBL) and Stile (Shabbir Tiles & Ceramics Ltd.) have entered into an agreement to facilitate customers on shop at Stile...

NATO troops on Saturday handed control of Afghanistan's northern capital Mazar-i-Sharif to local forces amid rising security fears just days after it was hit...

UBL, in collaboration with Etihad Airways, the National Airline of United Arab Emirates, has introduced an enhanced value proposition for their customers. While Etihad...

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has joined hands with those responsible for barbarianism in Karachi, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hassan said on Friday. He said...

Speaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Assembly Karamatullah Khan on Wednesday lauded the efforts of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in alleviating poverty from the...

The Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan and the Ikhwanul Muslimoon of Egypt have decided to make joint efforts for the solution of the Muslim Ummah's problems including...

Pepsi Cola International today signed an agreement with the leading waste management company in Pakistan to manage waste produced in their offices. According to...

A Pakistani journalist Waqar Kiani has revealed that the intelligence agencies had tortured him in July 2008, accusing him of being a British agent,...

Weak and frail, Rani is lying in bed waiting for her seven-year-old daughter to bring her something to eat. Her weak body is no...

ISLAMABAD - Allaying concerns of some of the PPP parliamentarians over power-sharing deal with the PML-Q, President Asif Ali Zardari has said if he could reconcile with the MQM, which had killed more than 100 PPP workers, there was no harm in shaking hands with the Chaudhrys to advance the party's policy of reconciliation in national interest, Pakistan Today learnt on Wednesday.
A source in the PPP said President Zardari, while addressing a PPP parliamentary party meeting the

ISLAMABAD - The Higher Education Commission, which is going to be dissolved in the name of the implementation of the 18th Amendment apparently for its bold stance on the verification of parliamentarians' degrees, has once again sought help from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to get educational documents of 254 parliamentarians for verification.
HEC Accreditation and Attestation Director General Rahim Bux Channa told Pakistan Today that degrees of 254 lawmakers had not

KARACHI - Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and Pakistan Microfinance Network (PMN) have joined hands to launch an online platform that will allow microcredit lenders and other stakeholders to assess competitive situation in their specific markets.
A statement issued by PPAF on Sunday stated that in an agreement to this effect was signed between by PPAF CEO/MD Qazi Azmat Isa and PMN CEO Mohsin Ahmad. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Mission Leader

ISLAMABAD - Calling energy an essential driver of Pakistan's economy, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday announced the formation of a Government-Industry Energy Council to address the country's energy issues and make recommendations to the government in this regard.
Addressing the inaugural session of the three-day "Pakistan Energy Conference, 2011" organised by Petroleum Institute of Pakistan, Gilani said the government could not tackle energy-related issues

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry while hearing the petition filed by the PCS officers to seek cancellation of the case against them, regretted that today the people of every class have make it a routine to take law into their hand and hold protest on any issue.
The Chief Justice also appeared not happy with the strike, boycott and the step taken by the petitioners which amount to taking the law into their hand. The Court remarked those who take

NEW YORK - Pakistan is so busy fighting its own Islamist militants that it can do little more to help NATO forces battling in neighbouring Afghanistan, NATO's top civilian there said on Monday.
Mark Sedwill, senior civilian representative for the Western military alliance in Afghanistan, said Pakistani attitudes were hardening toward guerrilla groups that had previously been supported by the state. "In the past, they had relations with various groups," he told the Asia Society

KARACHI - Standard Chartered Pakistan and Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited (CDC) have jointly launched a new and unique initiative that offers automated and standardised processing of securities settlement for Asset Management Companies (AMCs) across Pakistan. Standard Chartered Pakistan has successfully integrated its state of the art electronic banking channel Straight2bank (Access) with Central Depository Company's Fund Management System (FMS), providing a dynamic

A Los Angeles lawyer was given permanent control of 90-year-old actor Mickey Rooney's affairs on Friday after telling a judge that $400,000 of the Hollywood legend's money had gone from his bank accounts.
Rooney's stepson Christopher Aber also agreed to stay away from the actor and his home without the Los Angeles court extending a restraining order first obtained against him in February, Rooney's lawyer said after a hearing. Aber, 52, the son of Rooney's eighth wife Jan, has