Tag: Moot

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari asked the country's leading business houses to convene a roundtable conference of all political parties on their platform to find ways and means of putting the country's economy on a solid footing. At a presentation by the Pakistan Business Council on the agenda for the economic reforms, the president also suggested to the businessmen to make consortiums of leading entrepreneurs to consider buying out and managing various state-run

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will only attend the roundtable summit called by President Asif Ali Zardari if its agenda includes the party's 10-poing agenda, which the PML-N leadership reckons as a lifeline for the country, it is learnt.
Reliable sources told Pakistan Today that in a discussion with PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, a proposal was reviewed that the party should give its consent if Zardari agreed to include the 10-point agenda in the moot. Sources

KARACHI - The technical and financial evaluation committee formed by the Sindh government to select a private partner for the execution of the modern grain storage facility project in the public-private partnership mode held its first meeting on Wednesday.
The meeting, presided over by Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister on Planning and Development Dr Kaiser Bengali, discussed the modalities and framework of the grain storage project. The committee includes adviser to the chief

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

ISLAMABAD - As President Asif Ali Zardari is striving hard to make his roundtable conference a success, the opposition seems wary of the agenda of the moot, with the PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif pressing for the implementation of his 10-point agenda within the 45-day time limit.
Zardari continued consultations with political leaders for the second consecutive day, the most significant being his telephone call to Nawaz for inviting him to attend the proposed moot. A source in the

ISLAMABAD - As the Pak-US bilateral diplomatic relations are on the lowest ebb with the issue of Raymond Davis still unresolved, the US has put on hold the crucial US-Pak-Afghan meeting scheduled to be held in Washington on February 24-26.
The latest step on the part of the US authorities is being seen as a strong message clearly demonstrating Washington's displeasure over Islamabad's refusal to grant immunity to Davis, who is declared a diplomat by his country.
"It has

ISLAMABAD - The Board of Investment (BOI) will hold an investment conference in Kuala Lumpur for Malaysian businessmen seeking lucrative investment opportunities in the power, construction and Halal food sectors in Pakistan in March of this year.
An official told Pakistan Today that the conference would be held with the cooperation of the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA), which also assists Malaysian companies in matter pertaining to overseas investment. "The

ISLAMABAD - The issue of Raymond Davis, our mole said, worried President Asif Zardari the most and he visibly looked flustered while chairing the meeting of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)'s core committee on Tuesday night as he shared with his close aides the enormity of external and internal pressure he was faced with after the Lahore incident.
"It is a difficult situation," the president was quoted as saying while referring to the arrest of the American citizen who had

ISLAMABAD - Parliamentarians, intellectuals and opinion makers in Pakistan and India on Sunday urged the two countries to launch a meaningful dialogue on Kashmir and all other issues without further delay, cautioning that the absence of sustained engagement on conflicting matters would prove counterproductive and dangerous.
"The absence of a formal and sustained engagement on the full range of issues confronting India and Pakistan is unhealthy, counterproductive and dangerous. We

LAHORE - The second annual conference of Four Brothers Group Pakistan, a leading agricultural sector company, is being inaugurated at a local hotel. The three-day conference will be attended by a large number of foreign and national agriculture experts, technocrats, government officials, foreign diplomats and franchisees of Tarzan Sale Centers from all over the country. The inaugural and closing sessions of the conference will be presided over by the Four Brothers Group Pakistan

LAHORE - Former foreign minister and Chairman of Steering Committee of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Like-Minded Group, Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri left for New Delhi on Wednesday to attend an international symposium on Indo-Pak relations. According to details, Kasuri, who is known as an expert on foreign affairs, will attend a seminar titled 'Evolution of Pakistan-India relations in first decade of the 21st Century'.
The Indian Council of World Affairs especially invited

LAHORE - A convention with students from 21 universities will be held on February 20 by the All Pakistan Muslim League to launch its first phase of public liaison campaign. Spokesman APML Barrister Fawad Chaudhry said only APML can get the country out of prevailing crisis, adding that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz group's demand of taking Pervaiz Musharraf to court was political victimization and reflected the party's level of frustration.