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KARACHI - A buying delegation from Bosnia is currently on a visit to Pakistan, with the aim to search new ways of boosting the bilateral trade volume - standing at around two million euros per annum.
The delegation, which is presently visiting various industries and factories in Lahore, Sialkot etc, would visit Karachi on Thursday to meet exporters and members of various chambers and associations, sources said.
The foreign delegation would also visit leading industrial

God was certainly in a good mood when he created Maria Sharapova. The former world number one professional tennis player is not only blonde, beautiful and a staple in men's magazines like the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and Maxim, but she's a as modest as you can be when it comes to all the attention surrounding her fine physical attributes.
"To be quite honest, I never think about things like that. I think there will always be certain pressures of being in the public

ISLAMABAD - The government is trying to restructure the Board of Investment (BOI) and is planning to bring the private sector in the organisation, hence eliminating the bureaucrats working for the promotion of investments in the country, said BOI Chairman Saleem H Mandviwalla. "The BOI cannot be run as a conventional bureaucratic government organisation anymore", he said in an interview. "We are also trying to create special economic zones in Pakistan and incentives would be given to

KARACHI - Philippines has allowed the private sector to import almost 163,000 metric tonnes (MT) of rice as unpredictable weather has forced world food authorities of tightening staples' supplies. The Pakistani embassy in Manila has suggested Islamabad to approach the foreign country to tap the opportunity of getting more market share in the world's top rice importing country.
Countries like Thailand, China, India and Australia would be exporting a large quantity of rice after

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh looked to put his government's recent corruption troubles behind him and make up for lost time as a new parliamentary session opened on Monday. Opposition parties wrecked the last session of 2010 by holding protests every day demanding a probe into the fraud-tainted sale of telecom licences in 2008 that could have cost the country up to $40 billion.
In a bid to end the deadlock, the government has reportedly agreed to hold a

LAHORE - PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif on Sunday formed a committee to make proposals for celebrating the spring season and the basant. The committee will devise a policy for allowing kite-flying for celebrating the basant and other related activities.
Sardar Zulfikar Ali Khosa, senior advisor to the chief minister, will lead the committee, while Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Punjab Education Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman, Yousaf Salahuddin and Lahore commissioner will be its members.

Just as he is in no haste to get married, Salman Khan is as cool as cucumber when it comes to handling any pressure concerning the release of his films. With a cracker of a year in 2010, the 'Dabangg' Khan had the cash registers ringing even as his 'Wanted' was judged the biggest hit of 2009. Industry is abuzz with rumours that the star might just complete his hatrick at the box office with the Malayalam hit Bodyguard's Hindi remake 'My Love Story'.
The season of Eid has worked

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will address India's quantity restriction on cotton exports and will urge them to reciprocate their contractual sanctity as already shown by Pakistan on the onion exports issue.
According to official sources, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi provided this assurance to a delegation of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), led by Textile Minister Rana Farooq Saeed Khan, here on Friday. The minister said that the issue would be taken up with the

LAHORE - Pakistan's Test skipper Misbahul Haq said Thursday that his team will perform "even better" in the second and final Test at Wellington. Misbah's passion for improvement came following Pakistan's all round performance against New Zealand in the Hamilton Test.
"Hamilton was really pleasing. The team went into the match full of confidence after the series in South Africa, and the victory in Hamilton has further enhanced our confidence levels. Our aim is to improve further

ISLAMABAD - The government is considering inviting foreign investors to establish steel mills to take benefit from the iron ore reserves of 350 million tonnes at Kalabagh, 110 million tonnes at Chiniot, Punjab and 200 million tonnes at Dilband, Kalat, Balochistan.
According to official sources, the proposal is under consideration as the demand for steel products is estimated to increase to 14 million tonnes against a supply of 10 million tonnes by 2015. At present four major

LAHORE - METRO Pakistan Managing Director Giovanni Soranzo in an exclusive interview to Pakistan Today highlights challenges faced by the multinational giant in operating in the local environment and the organistation's outlook in Pakistan. He began by discussing the process that brought METRO to Pakistan.
The METRO Group conducts extensive feasibility studies before investing in any country. He acknowledged that though Pakistan is a market of great potential, METRO is solely

SUKKUR: Pakistan is looking forward to Chinese technology assistance to modernise its agriculture sector. "Though an agro-based country, our agriculture productivity is not up to the mark due to use of traditional measures," said Shah Abdul Latif University (SALU) Professor Taj Muhammad Lashari.
Talking to APP, he hoped that the upcoming visit of the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to Pakistan will give an opportunity to the two countries to further expand bilateral cooperation.