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Speakers at two separate seminars, held on Wednesday to mark International Teachers Day, paid rich tribute to teachers, saying no nation could achieve the...

About 600 Pakistanis have recently availed Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) scheme that offers 10-year residency visa in the country. Interestingly from 2002...

Punjab government imposed new taxes in the budget 2011-12 by imposing tax on farm houses, elite clubs, swimming pools, duty on special classes of...

President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani have given green signal to government economic team to bring 750000 rich people into...

Britain’s billionaires are more likely than their US counterparts to have made their own money rather than inherited it, a study has found, challenging...

KARACHI - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto strengthened the federation and ensured inter-provincial harmony besides bringing real democracy to the country, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Women Wing Sindh Information Secretary Sharmila Farooqui said on Sunday.
Paying rich tributes to the PPP's founding chairman on the eve of his 32nd death anniversary, she said that Bhutto wanted to build the country's reputation worldwide through his great foreign policies.
Farooqui said that the best way

KARACHI - A n important figure in American Pakistan art circles, Lubna Agha's work involves discourse with her personal history. While the revival of miniature paintings and calligraphy characterise much of modern Pakistani art and contemporary Islamic paintings, Agha's work draws inspiration from the rich tradition of the past where the meditative and ornamental qualities of the original media take on new meaning and intimacy.
Her art invokes a dialogue between the modern

ISLAMABAD - Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Tuesday said the government was doing its best to improve the country's economy but that objective could only be obtained by taxing the rich and re-distribution of wealth among the poor.
Addressing a special ceremony at the Planning Commission on Monday to mark the 20th Anniversary of the Human Development Report: The Real Wealth of Nations. The ceremony commemorated the contribution of late Dr Mahabub-ul-Haq to the concept of

KARACHI - PPP Women's Wing Sindh Information Secretary Sharmila Farooqui has paid rich tributes to poet and intellectual Faiz Ahmed Faiz on the occasion of his centenary birth celebrations. According to a statement issued on Saturday, she said that Faiz was not only a poet but also a man who made history and deserves to be remembered for centuries.
"It was Faiz who formed the first cultural policy of the PPP in the era of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto," she said, adding that Faiz was a

LAHORE - Pakistan's refusal to launch a military operation in North Waziristan to eliminate terrorist sanctuaries on its northwest border may have created a magnet there for hundreds of fighters, which has a positive side for the US, according to a report in the New York Times (NYT).
The report said that a growing number of senior US intelligence and counterinsurgency officials were of the opinion that by bunching up there, insurgents were ultimately making it easier for American

WASHINGTON - Economic growth in the world's wealthier nations is still too slow to create enough jobs for the tens of millions who lost theirs during the worst global recession since World War Two, the World Bank said. In a report detailing its outlook for 2011, the multilateral lender forecast the global economy would expand 3.3 percent this year, softer than the 3.9 percent expansion seen during 2010. Growth in the developing world will sharply outstrip growth in mature economies.