Tag: Union

PIA union employees to hold countrywide protest from today

JACPIAE says it will start closing down all PIA offices from today Warns if the government does not accept their demands, all flight operation will...

Pakistanis are resilient people, says Malala

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, an icon for children’s right to education, has said the people of Pakistan are very hospitable and they always come...

SMEs crash with crashing economy

The ongoing crisis of energy particularly load shedding of electricity and gas and frequent closures of gas stations in Pakistan has hit hard the...

Russia eyes $ 600 million trade with Pakistan

Russia plans to increase the volume of bilateral trade with Pakistan to the 2008 level of $ 600 million, Consul General of Russia Andrey...

IUCN to move Senate over ban on trophy hunting

The member organizations of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) National Committee rallied in favor of trophy hunting in the country and acclaimed...

Europe seeks to end discord over banking union

An impasse over plans for the European Central Bank to supervise banks, the European Union’s most ambitious financial reform, takes centre stage at a...

Pakistan demands preferential status for trade with EU

Pakistan has demanded preferential status for exports to European Union member states. According to a private news channel, head of European Union delegation in...

EU provides 1.2 m euros grant for climate study of Munda...

The European Union (EU) on Monday provided 1.2 million Euros as grant to conduct climate change impact assessment study in Swat basin for Munda...

Europe’s flawed banking union

The European Union is now the proud owner of a Nobel Peace Prize. When the choice alighted on Barack Obama three years ago, the...

African Union appoints new president

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a veteran of the fight against apartheid who has served in the cabinet of every South African president since Nelson Mandela, now...

African Union, Somali troops capture Islamist-held town

African Union troops alongside Somali forces seized the formerly Islamist-held town of Wanla Weyn on Sunday, the latest loss for the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab fighters,...

S.African media fetes Dlamini-Zuma’s AU win

South African media on Monday said the election of Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the first female head of the African Union Commission...

Ashton to attend EU-China dialogue in Beijing

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will visit Beijing on Monday and Tuesday for talks aimed at boosting coordination on foreign affairs and...

Asian markets mixed ahead of EU summit

Asian markets were mixed Thursday as a positive lead from Wall Street was offset by low expectations of concrete action at a key EU...

The European Banking Union?

In blatant violation of the Maastricht Treaty, the European Commission has come forward with one bailout plan after another for Europe’s distressed economies. Now...

EU springs into action

The European Union (EU) has launched a new project funded under its regional initiative Switch Asia for Pakistan for "Sustainable Cotton Production for Pakistan's...

Beneath the coat

Istanbul: European Union diplomats worried over Turkey’s pro-Islam steps, report AFP (June 11). After the uprising in the Middle East, has not Turkey’s say...