Tag: Invites

The Pakistan Cricket Board has formally invited Sri Lanka for a return series later in the year after the Interior Ministry assured top level...

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party Secretary General Jahangir Badr has termed the start of politics by Muttehida Qaumi movement (MQM) in Punjab a good omen for the country.
Talking to media after a meeting with MQM delegation at his residence here on Saturday, he said that MQM was working for the deprived and middle class which was in line with the vision of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of PPP.
He appreciated the MQM for its entry to Punjab and hoped it would benefit

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani invited the Pakistani Cricket team at PM house on April 04.
A reception will be arranged to lift the morale of the team.

FAISALABAD - Ugandan Ambassador Dr Muhammad Ahmed has said that his country sees Pakistan as a partner in the progress of their agriculture economy and Pakistani investors are warmly welcomed to visit Uganda for investment, adding a special package of multidimensional incentives and facilitations has been announced.
He was addressing the participants of a lunch hosted in his honour by Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Board of Directors Chairman Nadeem Aftab Sindhu. Dr

LAHORE - MQM chief Altaf Hussain has said that members of the army are part of the 98 percent oppressed population, and invited them to carry out joint efforts to bring a revolution to change the lives of the "have-nots".
Altaf said this in a telephonic address to party leaders and workers from London during the inaugural ceremony of the party's new office, to be called the MQM Punjab House, in Muslim Town. Altaf said the looted money lying in foreign bank accounts should be

LAHORE - The national selection committee of the Pakistan Hockey Federation has spotted 63 probable players during the the 30th National Junior Hockey Championship held in Bahawalpur. The trials to select and shortlist players out of the 63 will be held on March 26 and 27 at 1400 hours at the National Hockey Stadium, Lahore.
The trials will be observed by the national selection committee comprising Hanif Khan (Chairman), Muhammad Arshad Chaudhary and Khalid Bashir. After the

LAHORE - With the Pakistan Muslim League-Q's Unification Bloc facing a troubled situation and members getting out of control, bloc leader Dr Tahir Javed called an emergency meeting of the party on Friday in the committee room of the Punjab Assembly.
In a shrewd tactical decision, Javed invited not only the original bloc members but the rest of the PML-Q parliamentarians to attend the crucial meeting as well, which was followed by a grand feast. "We have been served notices of

TOKYO - President Asif Ali Zardari has invited a number of Japan's leading auto manufacturers to invest in Pakistan as automobile sector in the country is flourishing with the passage of time. Presidents and chief executive officers of different automobile and auto-parts companies, including Toyota Tshusho, Mitsubishi Corporation and Yamaha Motors, called on the President Zardari here on Wednesday.
Speaking to the representatives of different automobile companies, President

TOKYO - Seeking cooperation of investors to explore enormous possibilities of strengthening and expanding business relations with Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday invited the Japanese business community to rejuvenate Pakistan's economy through their individual contribution, joint venture or consortia.
Commenting on investment-friendly environment established by the present government, the president said, "The government has designated a 2000-acre Special Economic

SIALKOT - Bosnia-Herzegovina Ambassador to Pakistan Arman Limo invited the business community of the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) to the 2nd International Investment Conference being organized by Bosnia. He invited the Sialkot businessmen to participate in the event to explore more business opportunities. The three-day conference is being held in Sarajevo on April 6-8.
He said that both the countries had common religious and cultural relations. He underlined

KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has advised banks, development finance institutions (DFIs) and microfinance banks (MFBs) to submit claims for second installment of the government's mark-up rate subsidy under Fiscal Relief Package (FRP).
The FRP is a government facility provided to augment eligible sectors other than the textile industry in war-torn Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and federally and provincially administered tribal areas of the country. According to a Circular

KARACHI - The imposition of a ban on the export of onions to India through land route will help to lower the domestic prices of the commodity. Welcoming the decision, the office bearers of All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exports, Imports and Merchants Association (PFVA), have said that the unchecked export of onion through the Wagha border was causing the price hike in the domestic markets.
Speaking to Pakistan Today PFVA former Chairman Waheed Ahmed revealed that soon after the

TEHRAN - Iran is to open its atomic sites to some world powers, officials announced on Tuesday, as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted the West was wrong to confront Tehran over its nuclear programme.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in Tehran that invitations to visit Iran's nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak have been sent to ambassadors of some of the nations represented in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Diplomatic sources at

LAHORE: Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer has written an open letter to the chief justice of the Lahore High Court, inviting him to take suo motu action against the 'conspirators' in a alleged murder plot against the chief justice.
A tragedy could occur at the behest of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leaders in the upcoming month of Muharram, Governor Taseer alleged in a press conference at the Governor's House.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Inquiry Commission

ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday telephoned Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and extended a verbal invitation to him for his first official visit to Kabul in the near future.
Karzai expressed his desire to discuss the entire range of bilateral relations during the visit. The prime minister accepted the invitation and expressed confidence that high-level contacts would bring the two fraternal countries even closer, a press release stated.
The two leaders

KARACHI: Muttahida Muslim League (MML) leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmad asked the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) to join the newly-formed alliance of the different factions of the Muslim League, during his visit to the MQM headquarters Nine-Zero on Saturday.
On the ocassion, MQM leaders Federal MINister Babar Ghauri, Waseem Aftab and former Karachi deputy mayor Nasreen Jalil said that they would discuss this invitation at a meeting of their party. Nasreen said that her party would take