ISLAMABAD  - The third session of Pakistan-South Africa Joint Commission on Bilateral Cooperation was held in Islamabad. Ms. Seema Naqvi, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan and Dr. Anil Sooklal, Deputy Director General, Department of International Relations & ...

NEW YORK - Cosmetics billionaire Leonard Lauder has given New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art an astonishing, no-strings-attached collection of Cubist art that he assembled over four decades, the museum announced Tuesday.The enormous gift, estimated to be worth $1 billion, includes 78 works ...

THE UK downloads chart has passed a major milestone after single sales topped the one billion mark - nine years after the format was officially launched.According to figures from the Official Charts Company, the magic number was passed late Monday, following a surge in sales which has seen an ...

KARACHI - Over one billion people, or approximately 15 per cent of the world’s population, are living with some form of disability. Persons with disabilities, often face barriers to participate in all aspects of society. The result is that these persons do not have equal access to ...

Pakistan should get $1.1 billion in US funds that have been held up for months now that Islamabad has reopened crucial Nato supply lines to Afghanistan, top senators said.A major obstacle to releasing the money was removed last week when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton apologised to ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The Punjab Privatization Board (PPB) has announced to sell over seven mega state-owned properties worth Rs1 billion by the end of the current month while their auction will be held next week. PPB Secretary M Aashiq Ch talking to The Nation said that the properties are ...

IMRAN ALI KUNDI ISLAMABAD - The government has prepared a plan to increase the exports of Export Processing Zones Authority (EPZA) from existing US$ 395 million to $1 billion in the next five years by offering various incentives to the investors. The government will facilitate the investors and ...

DHAKA (AFP) - India is giving Bangladesh a billion-dollar soft loan, the biggest credit package New Delhi has ever given to any nation, officials said Saturday, highlighting warming ties between the neighbours. Relations between the South Asian neighbours chilled between 2001 and 2006 when ...

KARACHI - About 30 percent of the one billion dollars of Japanese pledge to Pakistan will be utilised for setting up Automobile and chemical industries at about 2,000 acres Economic Zone in Karachi, announced Saleem H Mandviwalla on Saturday. The Minister of State and Board of Investment chairman, ...

EVEN though she has already apologized, Sharon Stone apparently isn't getting any forgiveness. She faces a whopping $1 billion lawsuit from the survivors and victims' families of China's recent earthquake. In May, the "Basic Instinct" star had sparked criticism when she said China suffered from ...

KARACHI/LAHORE - Pakistan cement exports are all set to touch one billion dollar mark by 2010 after establishing its position as an exporter of cement and clinker in the region as cement manufacturers enhanced their role among competitors, industry sources told The Nation here Tuesday. The ...