Tag: Link

Pakistan and Bangladesh to establish ‘direct shipping link’

KARACHI - Pakistan and Bangladesh will work towards establishing a direct shipping line between the two countries to promote commercial and trade links. In ongoing discussions between the foreign secretaries of Pakistan and Bangladesh, a part of regular bilateral exchanges, the two sides will moot over the direct shipping issue in the next round of bilateral consultation to be held in the Bangladesh shortly, sources told Pakistan Today.
To give fresh impetus to bilateral trade

French ex-PM Villepin denies graft link to 2002 bombing

PARIS: France's former prime minister Dominique de Villepin on Sunday denied any link between arms deals and the deaths of 11 French engineers in a bombing in Pakistan in 2002.
Witnesses have alleged the bombing was revenge for the cancelling of kickbacks paid to officials in the arms deals, in a complex case linked to alleged illegal political funding and implicating President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Villepin said on Sunday: "To my knowledge there is no link" between the

Huge ditches, a recurrent feature at Model Town Link Road

Ditch 35 ft deep, 25 ft wide created at centre of road
Ditches created due to leakages in Model Town's rusty sewage lines
LAHORE
20 applications filed during last 3 years
Old sewage lines:
First: 1970
Second: 1984
18 feet below surface
Two large pits have reappeared on Model Town Link Road. Residents allege the ditches are a consequence of leaking sewage lines. Residents also allege that WASA has shown negligence despite repeated voicing of

President urges advanced Pak-Turk rail link

ISLAMABAD: President, Asif Ali Zardari called for up gradation of the Pak-Turkey rail link, as it would increase trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.
He was talking to Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan who had called him at the Aiwan-e-Sadar.
Media spokesman to the President, Farhatullah Babar briefed that the President reiterated the proposal of up gradation of railway line between the two countries and urged the Turkish Prime Minister to