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The economists want Pakistani manufacturers, exporters and businessmen to look towards the rising economies of Asia, as South Korea Thursday termed the existing volume of over $ 1.6 billion bilateral trade with Pakistan “far below (the) potential”. “I am pleased to note that...

Pakistan has a growing fear that the US might abandon it once again after its exit from Afghanistan next year. The Pakistan embassy has conveyed the message to the Obama administration in numerous meetings, according to the acting ambassador Dr Asad Majeed. Talking to The News after...

Drone strikes in Pakistan have killed 1,000 civilians, activists say, while the US maintains they only target terrorists. Victims of drone warfare and their families live in constant fear of another strike, and say they are “angry and want revenge.” A review of classified US intelligence...

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Pakistan military said it celebrated on Wednesday ‘Pakistani Peacekeepers Day’ to commemorate what it termed as sacrifices rendered by its soldiers while deputed abroad. “June 5 is observed as Pakistani Peacekeepers Day and it marks an important event to pay homage to Pakistani soldiers who...

Foreign funds and companies are looking to drastically increase investments in Pakistan and the rise could improve Pakistan’s dire economic conditions, financial experts told The News on Tuesday.The investors’ interest is based on their expectation that the newly elected PML-N government will...

District government has set up a complaint cell seeking public cooperation to keep the city clean. Citizens are being given Rs1,000 to Rs5,000 for pointing out ***** littered sites, cattle pens and presence of stagnant water in the city,. Talking to reporters on Tuesday, District...

In a telephone call to the Pakistani Foreign Office on Tuesday, India's foreign secretary apologised to his Islamabad counterpart over the mistreatment of a Pakistani diplomat in New Delhi, diplomatic sources told DawnNews. Pakistan's First Secretary (Trade) Zargam Raza and his driver Haider...

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab women wing has passed a resolution demanding the party should make all out efforts to redress Ms Fauzia Kasuri’s grievances and ensure she should stay in PTI fold. It says the party should make efforts in this regard in the same spirit as it did in the case...

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the ruling alliance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Tuesday agreed to move a resolution in the KPK Assembly soon against drone attacks on Pakistan's soil. The decision to this effect was made at the parliamentary...

The UN’s food agency on Tuesday said obesity and poor nutrition weigh heavily on the global economy and told governments that investing in food health would bring big economic as well as social returns. Lost productivity and spiralling health care bills linked to obesity cost the world...

The Asia Pacific Corporation (APC) would present its investment plan worth of $10 billion to the new government of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) to overcome power crisis in the country. Sources informed that Consortium leaders of Asia Pacific Corporation (APC) would present its proposals...

WASHINGTON : Florida socialite Jill Kelley says in a lawsuit the govt knowingly libeled her in the affair that led to David Petraeus’ resignation as CIA director, according to US media reports. Kelley and her husband, Scott Kelley, allege in a 65-page complaint filed in US District Court in...

Amid growing disbelief over the calculation methodology, the pace of increase in prices of essential items slowed down to 5.1% in May, the lowest in more than nine years, increasing chances of a cut in the benchmark interest rate in the upcoming monetary policy. According to data released by...

Countering cold start: Military to adopt new war concept Pakistan’s military is all set to adopt a “new concept” of war for fighting future conventional threats, specifically pre-empting India’s cold-start military doctrine, revealed security officials. The new war...

The government is making efforts to calculate the latest estimates of losses borne by Pakistan’s economy in the last 12 years after becoming an ally of the US in its war against terrorism since 9/11, 2001. These mind-boggling figures, which are in the process of finalisation, might be...

Iran and Pakistan have signed an agreement for strengthening cooperation at sea and ocean. The agreement was signed by the head of Iran’s Oceanology Institute Vahid Chegini and his Pakistani counterpart Ali Rashid Tabriz on Monday, IRNA news agency reporetd. Rashid Tabriz and Senior Advisor to...

Pakistan's interim government is engaged in finalizing legal formalities to secure the repatriation of its prisoners languishing for years in jail outside the country. Islamabad is considering to ratify the Council of European Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons which would help the...

After the poor showing of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the May 11 parliamentary elections, President Asif Ali Zardari says he will not seek another term in office. Asif Zardari was elected to the Presidency on September 6, 2008 and his five-year constitutional term expires in September...

Following the abolition of the polio monitoring and coordination cell, the future of the annual aid of $130 million drawn from the Bill Gates Foundation has become increasingly uncertain. The World Health Organisation (WHO) wrote a letter to the caretaker government a couple of days back and...