KARACHI - Consul General of Malaysia Abu Bakar Mamat has proposed that Pakistan can use Malaysia as a central point of market access to ASEAN countries and enjoy trade/ distribution of Pakistani products to ASEAN/ Far East countries as Malaysia is the signatory of ASEAN Free Trade Agreement.He ...

surabaya Japan won its bid to enter talks on a massive Pacific trade pact Saturday after winning over its last opponent, Canada, for a proposed agreement that would account for more than 40 per cent of the global economy.The decision became unanimous when Canada “successfully concluded” ...

LAHORE – The Unification Bloc, which stood by the Shahbaz Sharif government in Punjab through thick and thin, has lost worth for PML-N tickets over internal differences and load of ticket aspirants.The main character and architect of the Bloc, Dr Tahir Ali Javed is in America after resigning ...

LAHORE – All the members of the Unification Bloc may not get tickets from the Punjab’s ruling party for the next general elections, The Nation has learnt. Unification Bloc in Punjab Assembly, which consists of deserters of the PML-Q, supported the ruling party of the province during the ...

China, Russia and four Central Asian countries have vowed to play a bigger role in Afghanistan, Chinese President Hu Jintao said in comments published Wednesday, as NATO forces prepare to pull out.He said the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) -- a group intended as a counterweight to US ...

ISLAMABAD - Unilateral decision of PML-Q’s 47-member Unification Bloc (UB) supporting PML-N Punjab government to pitch Mohsin Leghari as consensus candidate for one of the Senate berths from the province has put Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and PML-N leadership in quandary, sources said on ...

LAHORE- While some analysts think that PML-Q forward bloc in Punjab Assembly has become insignificant for the PML-N in a changed political situation, the statistics of 2008 elections however reveal that its reliance on estranged PML-Q legislators has increased manifolds. It is evident from 2008 ...

LAHORE – In the backdrop of the discussions being held among the Unification Bloc members to devise an independent strategy for the Senate polls, an additional secretary of the Chief Minister’s Secretariat has sent a SMS to the Bloc MPAs not to propose or second any candidate for the ...

ISLAMABAD - Successful counter moves by PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari in foiling attempts by some party MPs to create forward bloc in the Punjab Assembly was the chief reason for former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to resign from his National Assembly seat. Well-placed political sources ...

LAHORE Delivering a lecture on a Changing Turkey held at Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrik-e-Pakistan, a Turkish scholar said here on Tuesday that practicing secularism in a Muslim state was not a bad idea. Professor Dr Ihsan Yilmaz, an associate professor at Fatih University Istanbul and Chairman Rumi ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Federal Minister for Commerce, Makhdoom Amin Fahim Tuesday stressed the need for strengthening regional trade bloc in South Asia to tape the maximum possible business and trade potential among the regional countries. Regional trade has been found to be the most effective and ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) The religious parties are uniting behind their hatred of the United States, emboldened by a weak government that looks increasingly reluctant to stand up to extremism and a society where radicalism is widely tolerated. The prospect of these parties gaining strength is a ...

The Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO), comprising Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan and six Muslim former Soviet republics, recently held its latest summit meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, where President Ahmadinejad handed over the rotating presidency of this regional organisation to President ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) West African heads of state have threatened to use force to oust incumbent Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo unless he cedes power to a rival widely credited with having won a presidential election. Meanwhile, the incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo said on Saturday a threat of force ...

LAHORE - Chairman Nazria Pakistan Trust and Editor-in-Chief The Nation Majid Nizami has said that a bloc of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey if united at a platform can face the opposite forces successfully, which are now threatening the entire Muslim world. He was narrating impression of ...

HUA HIN, Thailand (AFP/Reuters) - Asian leaders discussed plans at a summit Saturday to lead the world by forming a EU-style community, as China and India tried to cool a simmering border spat. Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pressed his regional counterparts to move towards the creation of ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ejaz Butt would reach Sri Lanka today to discuss the 2011 World Cup matches switch from Pakistan in a hastily planned tour, it was reliably learnt on Thursday. Sources in the PCB confirmed that chairman PCB planned to visit Bangladesh and India to ...

LAHORE - The PML-Q forward Bloc has strongly opposed the 60-40 percent power sharing arrangement between PPP and PML-N in Punjab government and termed the formula disastrous for the PML-N as well as for the bloc in future. According to the sources in the PML-Q-forward bloc, a number of members of ...