Tag: Strategy

ISLAMABAD - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sought a clear plan of action from the government by Friday (today) to end the circular debt issue and reform the bleeding public sector enterprises within the current financial year in order to revive the suspended standby arrangement facility. An official source said the success of the talks hinged on the action plan that the government presented to the fund staff on Thursday and would be finalised today. During the talks, IMF

LAHORE - The Planning Commission (PC) of Pakistan is forming a much-needed economic growth strategy by focusing on economic discipline and productivity. The strategy, being evolved, would be an agenda of change and would not be a mere policy.This was stated by the Planning Commission of Pakistan Deputy Chairman Dr Nadeemul Haq, while speaking at a dialogue on economic growth challenges for Pakistan, arranged by the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on Saturday.
LCCI

ISLAMABAD - The federal cabinet on Wednesday held a five-hour exclusive session to deliberate upon the country's worsening law and order situation that led to the assassination of two high-profile personalities in the federal capital within a span of two months.
Condemning the assassination of Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, the cabinet members gave their input on how to cope with the terrorists' strategy of targeting high profile individuals. The ministers also vowed to

LAHORE - As the timeline for the implementation of the PML-N's 10-point agenda expires today (Thursday), party leaders have put their head together to devise a final strategy in the light of PPP's response to the charter of demands.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is likely to meet or call PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif to seek additional time for implementing the reform agenda.
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday held talks with senior party leaders, including Punjab Chief

LAHORE - Kashf Foundation recently released a flood relief strategy report based on three phases: food distribution amongst flood victims, reconstruction of homes and access to sustainable income sources. Kashf Foundation Managing Director Roshaneh Zafar shared key points of the three pronged strategy.
The Foundation plans to provide financial education, along with microfinance for small businesses and livestock to flood victims to enhance income generation that will ensure

LAHORE - Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that terrorism has adversely impacted the economies of the developing and the developed countries. Terrorists have no religion. The phenomenon of terrorism has not appeared suddenly out of nowhere.
Rather it has evolved through the phases of radicalism and extremism and terrorists are used as fodder for the cannons of the masterminds of this evil. He said that there are five phases through which terrorism passes. Radical and

KARACHI: PPP Sindh Media Cell In-charge Sharjeel Inam Memon's prompt move to back Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza following the MQM's 10-day notice to the PPP over the home minister's tirade against the party clearly suggests a shift in the PPP's political strategy in the province.
People closely watching the PPP's politics are of the view that due to the changing political situation in the country, the PPP would quickly distance itself from the MQM in the coming days in an

ISLAMABAD: Investigators probing the recent spate of suicide bombings in Mohmand Agency, Darra Adam Khel and other Tribal Areas believe that these attacks are part of a Taliban strategy to reclaim the ground they lost to security forces after the successful military operations.
The investigators also anticipate more such assaults in the days to come as part of the strategy recently devised by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), patronised Al Qaeda. Officials privy to the

LISBON: NATO leaders endorsed on Saturday a plan to start handing Afghan forces command of the war next year with the aim of ceding full control by 2014.
"We have launched the process by which the Afghan people will once again become masters in their own house," NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news conference following a summit of Allied leaders.
Afghan forces will start taking the lead in security operations next year starting in some districts and

ISLAMABAD: Frustrated with the dark in which they have been kept by the party's central command over the possible unification of the Muslim Leagues and the party's parleys with the Pakistan People's Party, the PML-Q parliamentarians have asked the Chaudhrys to convene a party CEC meeting and devise a clear policy.
"When we are asked to comment by someone on the PML unification move or our party's growing proximity with the PPP, we having nothing to talk about, as details on these

ISLAMABAD: The ministry of petroleum and natural resources has begun a campaign to explore rich mineral deposits in the country.
As part of such efforts a more proactive policy in coordination with all stakeholders to successfully achieve the task and fulfill the national energy needs, an official indicated in a statement.
He said in the past, only few deposits were explored which could not possibly alleviate economic conditions on the ground, but now effective measures

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Commerce has convened a meeting of important industrialists on Thursday to formulate a strategy on how to derive the greatest benefit from the European Union's (EU) waiver of approximately $ 900 million of tarrifs in 75 Pakistan product categories.
The Minister for Commerce, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, will chair the meeting on Thursday in Karachi. Meanwhile, Secretary Commerce Zafar Mehmood and newly appointed Chief Executive of Trade Development Authority