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Malaysia would invest in Pakistan to the tune of $1.5 billion by next year; this was stated by the Consul General of Malaysia Khalid...

Pakistan will export another two million tons of wheat this year out of the country’s total production of 24.2 million tons for the current...

The provincial health sector will not have any new development scheme in the next fiscal year, as the Health Department has not proposed any...

Jonathan Trott’s run-scoring feats during the past 12 months were recognised when he was named England’s cricketer of the year by the England and...

The five-rupee banknote would cease to exist as a legal tender from January 1, 2012 onwards in conjunction with the federal government’s notification issued...

The fifth Meeting of the ASEAN-Pakistan Joint Sectoral Dialogue Cooperation Committee (ASJSCC) will be held in Jakarta on May 31. Additional Foreign Secretary (Asia Pacific)...

For the eight Spain internationals in Barcelona’s probable starting 11 for Saturday’s Champions League final, victory over Manchester United at Wembley would put a...

Pakistan Railways (PR) has estimated a deficit of around Rs 62 billion for the next fiscal year against an expected earning of Rs 20...

Nepal’s government proposed Thursday a second one-year extension in the life of the current parliament that was elected in 2008 to draft a new...

The 99th birth anniversary of Saadat Hasan Manto fell on Tuesday, May 11, 2011. Manto has been termed one of the leading writers in...

KARACHI - First year students of the Sindh Madressatul Islam College (SMIC) organised a farewell party for the passing out students of second year. A passionate performance by the students on the Sindhi folk song 'Sindh Jeay, Sindh Wara Jean' (long live Sindh, long live its people) captivated the hearts and minds of the audience. Similarly, a '2Man Show' and skit on the subject of science, symbolising the provinces of Pakistan including Gilgit Baltistan, was entertaining and

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed to do "whatever is necessary" to restore the Gulf Coast on the anniversary of the BP rig explosion, which caused the worst maritime oil spill in US history. "The events that unfolded on April 20, 2010 and the oil spill that followed underscores the critical link between the environment and economic health of the Gulf," Obama said in a statement.
"My administration is committed to doing whatever is necessary to protect and

ISLAMABAD - Mobilink, Pakistan's market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) has posted growth in revenues, EBITDA as well as subscriber base for the year 2010 as compared to 2009.
According to the Full Year Earnings Release issued by OTH, for the year ending December 2010, Mobilink has registered 8.7percent growth in revenues at PKR 94.3 billion in 2010 as compared to PKR 86.8 billion in 2009, says a press release.
The company's EBITDA also

KARACHI - A new polio case was reported in Karachi on Friday, according to Sindh Health Department's Public Relations Officer Saleem Khan.
18-month-old Maria Tawab Khan, resident of Baloch Colony in Orangi Town, was diagnosed with the onset of polio on March 29, whereas, according to the final report, it was confirmed on Friday that she has polio.
"Her vaccination status is zero plus seven and she is suffering from P-1 type polio virus," Khan said.
With this new case,

LAHORE - Gender Reform Action Plan (GRAP) Project Coordinator Hafiz Ilyas inaugurated the spring festival session to mark the Women's Year 2011 at Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) on Thursday and said that gender equality was considered to be the vital concern in the process of development therefore investment in women's empowerment was the key to improve the economic, political and social conditions in Pakistan.
LCWU gender studies department organized the spring gala

ISLAMABAD - The federal cabinet approved the Haj Policy, 2011 in a meeting at Prime Minister (PM)'s Secretariat on Wednesday chaired by PM Yousaf Raza Gilani, who told the Religious Affairs Ministry to take all stakeholders on board and launch an extensive awareness campaign to make the system transparent and help pilgrims understand the Haj arrangements properly.
The cabinet was told that Saudi Arabia had increased the quota of Pakistani pilgrims for 2011 by 19,609, bringing the