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Textile and Food sectors which have exhibited dramatic growth in exports has helped in pushing overall exports over the $22 billion mark during the...

With the sowing period underway, the cotton production target has emerged as a central concern. As world cotton production is expected to improve by...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Monday that Pakistan was on the hit list of al Qaeda after the killing of Osama Bin Laden....

The intensity of cyclone moving towards coastal line of Sindh and Balochistan has weakened, met office said on Saturday. The Pakistan Meteorological Department said the...

Karachi came to a stand-still and was plunged into darkness as the full impact of the recent petrol shortage hit the south of the...

Explosions shook Tripoli on Tuesday in what the Libyan government said were NATO air strikes on military compounds in the capital, a day after...

NATO-led warplanes struck offices of the Libyan state broadcaster in the capital Tripoli on Monday, an information ministry official said. An AFP correspondent also...

NATO-led warplanes struck offices of the Libyan state broadcaster in the capital Tripoli on Monday, an information ministry official said. An AFP correspondent...

Airlines grounded hundreds of flights Tuesday after a plume of ash from a volcano in Iceland blanketed Britain and touched Scandinavia in a fresh...

Explosions killed at least 15 people and wounded 74 in the Baghdad area on Sunday, including a suicide bombing targeting Iraqi soldiers north of...

KANO - A new outbreak of deadly post-poll riots hit northern Nigeria overnight as soldiers patrolled the streets Tuesday after President Goodluck Jonathan and his defeated rival called for calm. Authorities have not given a death toll for the rioting that began sporadically over the weekend over allegations of vote rigging and quickly spread to some 14 states on Monday. An estimated 15,000 have been displaced and more than 360 wounded, according to the Red Cross. Police said dozens of

KANO - Riots spread across Nigeria's north on Monday as results from presidential elections showed incumbent Goodluck Jonathan assured of victory in polls that reflected deep regional tensions. Residents reported that a home belonging to an aide to the vice president was among those set alight and a mob sought to burn a Christian woman alive in one area.
Protesters fought running battles with soldiers in Nigeria's main northern city. A 24-hour curfew was imposed on the state of

ISLAMABAD - Dengue fever hit the Sindh province harder than other provinces during 2010 as compared to 2009, the National Assembly on Wednesday was informed on Wednesday by Inter-provincial Coordination Minister Raza Rabbani. The minister held last year's massive floods responsible for the dengue outbreak, adding that the damage had been curtailed thanks to enhanced surveillance undertaken during the floods and the laboratory diagnostic facilities provided by the government. Rabbani

LOS ANGELES - Teen YouTube sensation Rebecca Black sings gleefully about the weekend in her Web video hit "Friday," -- and now the 13 year-old has something even more exciting to crow about.
"Friday" has been viewed online more than Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" and Justin Bieber's "Pray," Visible Measures, a company that tracks performance of Web videos said on Monday.
Black's low-budget video, which the California teen made with a boutique record label, has generated

LONDON - World oil price jumped this week to the highest levels since 2008, driven by Middle East supply fears and a weak dollar, while safe-haven gold hit a record as Portugal sought an EU bailout.
Other stand-out performances included tin, which enjoyed an all-time pinnacle on the back of stretched global supplies, and silver which scored
another 31-year peak.
Strong support came from the struggling greenback, which makes dollar-priced commodities cheaper for buyers

LAHORE - Through the proposed 'New Entrant Policy', the government has planned to end the stranglehold that existing players enjoy in the automobile and auto-vending industry. Earlier, the government relaxed conditions on the imports of second hand cars, now it has proposed tax discounts for new entrants, which would ultimately eliminate the local manufacturing.
Official documents made available to Pakistan Today suggests that the proposed policy under the Auto Industry

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's first gay-themed movie has been a hit at the box office but an official from the conservative party on Thursday called for it to be banned despite its anti-homosexual ending.
'Dalam Botol' ('Inside a Bottle') raked in one million Ringgits ($330,000) in the first five days, making it a local hit despite Malaysia's conservative views on homosexuality. The movie, which opened on March 24, features a gay male character who has a sex-change operation to