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Gwadar gateway to Central Asia trade: Li
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and China Wednesday vowed to further consolidate their time-tested ties and signed a number of accords and MoUs, including the one for establishing an economic corridor that would provide air, rail and road connectivity to bolster bilateral trade between the neighbouring ...
Eight villagers shot dead in central India
RAIPUR, India : Indian police reported Monday that eight villagers, including three children, died in crossfire between security forces and Maoist rebels, but opposition politicians said the victims were "massacred".A policeman also died in the incident on Saturday in the Edasmeta area of Bijapur ...
Central contracts; where is merit PCB?
ISLAMABADThe most interesting thing in the central contracts, which the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced for 30 players in four different categories, is the omissions of names of seasoned all-rounder Sohail Tanveer, talented Hammad Azam and Raza Hassan, who were not even considered for C ...
ECB to help businesses, says top central banker
ORLEANS, France - The ECB is exploring ways to directly help small companies as a way to boost the recession-hit eurozone economy directly, said Benoit Coeure, A member of the bank’s executive board. Coeure, speaking at a conference south of Paris, did not say how exactly the policy would ...
Pakistan players expect pay hike with new central contracts
KARACHIPakistan’s top cricketers are expecting the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to give them another pay hike when the new central contracts for the year 2013 are given before the team leaves for the ICC Champions Trophy. The sources close to some of the players said on Sunday that they were ...
Powerful earth quake jolts upper, central part of Pakistan
A strong 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit Southeastern part of Afghanistan which shacked most of Pakistani cities and towns on Wednesday afternoon.According to initial reports, no loss was reported so for, however a media report said some walls of mud-houses collapsed in Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw because of ...
Yemen central bank reserves hit six-month low
DUBAI (Reuters) - The foreign reserves of Yemen’s central bank shrank by $457 million in February to their lowest level since last August as oil exports from the impoverished Arab country plunged by a third, data showed on Sunday.The Arabian peninsula state, which relies on crude exports to ...
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Influential Khattaks in field to conquer Nowshera
PESHAWAR - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...
Central Nigeria ethnic violence kills 19, displaces 4,500
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Weekend attacks on three communities in volatile and ethnically divided central Nigeria have left 19 people dead and displaced some 4,500 others, a local official said on Tuesday.The attacks were believed to be reprisals in a dispute involving mainly Muslim Fulanis and the ...
Central Africa deal moves forward after PM dismissal
BANGUI (AFP) - Central African President Francois Bozize on Saturday sacked his prime minister to comply with the terms of a ceasefire deal reached with a rebel coalition during talks in Libreville. Faustin Archange Touadera was dismissed as prime minister in a decree read out on public radio and ...
Central Africa rebels defy peace efforts, inch towards capital
BANGUI - Rebels in the Central African Republic, defying regional mediation efforts, Saturday seized a new town in their advance on the capital Bangui and repelled a bid by army soldiers to retake a key central city.The rebels faced no resistance as they entered the town of Sibut some 150 ...
Central banks prepare for turmoil after Greek vote
FRANKFURT/LONDON - Central banks from Tokyo to London checked their ammunition on Friday in preparation for any turmoil from Greece’s election, with the European Central Bank hinting at an interest rate cut and Britain set to open its coffers.Tensions were high about how to manage the euro ...
NATO supplies to be routed through Central Asia
NATO has signed a pact with three Central Asian countries -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan -- which would provide a new land route to transport supplies to foreign troops in land-locked Afghanistan. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance had reached an agreement on ...
UN chief urged to take up India's rights violations 'central part' of his Delhi talks
NEW YORK - Human Rights Watch, an international watchdog body, has asked UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is in New Delhi, to raise the large-scale violations of human rights in India and in occupied-Kashmir during his talks with Indian leaders.The secretary-general flew to New Delhi on ...
Italy must rapidly implement, extend reforms: central bank
PARMA, Italy - Italy’s central bank governor urged the government on Saturday to rapidly implement planned reforms and take further steps to support the euro zone’s third-biggest economy, which he said would shrink by around 1.5 percent this year.In a keynote speech in Parma, Bank ...
Pharma sector demands central DRA
LAHORE - The Pharma Bureau has urged the government to immediately form an independent central Drug Regulatory Authority (DRA) adopting similar refined model employed in other nations to oversee this very critical industry of Pakistan.In a statement issued here, the representative body of the ...
Afridi set to get central contract
LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi will get a fresh central contract when the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announces its list of centrally contracted players for the year 2012. Afridi had automatically lost his contract in May when he announced his retirement from international ...
Floods swamp tornado-ravaged central US
CHICAGO (AFP) - Weary residents still cleaning up from a series of deadly tornadoes which ripped across the central United States laid out sandbags Friday to protect homes and business from record flooding. Hundreds of people have been driven from their homes by the rising waters as National ...
China central bank warns over fund flows, inflation
BEIJING (AFP) - Chinas central bank governor on Tuesday voiced concern at problems such as speculative fund inflows into the economy and rising inflation, leading the stock market to fall four percent. The comments added to a chorus of criticism by Chinese officials that monetary stimu-lus policies ...
Under-performing Malik likely to lose central contract
LAHORE All-rounder Shoaib Malik is in the line of fire after showing poor performance in the series against Australia and England and the chances are that he would not only lose his place in the team but might also see his central contract terminated. Reports attributed to PCB said that top ...
SKorea govt, central bank to coordinate policy
SEOUL (AFP) - South Koreas government and central bank agreed Monday to cooperate closely in economic and monetary policy, a statement seen by analysts as ruling out an early interest rate rise. Both sides agreed to share information and work closely for harmonised economic and monetary policies, ...
Swedish central bank holds rate, plans earlier increase
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedens central bank on Thursday held as expected its benchmark interest rate at a record low 0.25 percent but announced it would raise it earlier than planned as the Swedish economy strengthens. The assessment now is that the upturn in economic activity rests on more solid ground ...
Global economy skirted depression: central bankers
BASEL (AFP) - The world has avoided an extremely threatening depression but there are outstanding risks that could topple renewed economic confidence, leading central bankers said on Monday. There is a situation where we see elements that are encouraging, confirmation of the fact that we avoided ...
Middleman's role central in govt offices
ISLAMABAD - The money mongering manoeuvres have become an order of the day in the government sector, with new innovative techniques being introduced by government officials to gobble hard-earned money of the public. Among several such tactics that actually aim at maximum exploitation of a common ...
TDAP to organise Trade Caravan in Central Asia
KARACHI - To expand export base and create linkage with other countries in the region, especially with Central Asian Republics CARs, Trade Development Authority of Pakistan TDAP is organising a Trade Caravan from Pakistan to display Pakistani products of interest in selected cities en-route in June ...
Global central banks strive to save melting money markets
FRANKFURT (AFP) - Central banks pumped tens of billions of dollars into money markets again on Friday as analysts used dramatic terms to describe distress in the international bank-lending system. "Apocalyptic", "money market meltdown" and "extreme" tension were some of the descriptions of ...
World central banks stake billions to staunch global crisis
FRANKFURT (AFP) - World central banks took unprecedented action Thursday to flood desperately tight money markets with dollars as investors worried who the next victim of the global financial turmoil could be. The US Federal Reserve led the charge to relieve "elevated pressures" in global ...
Internal terrorism poses real threat to country: Gilani
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said Thursday that Pakistan was not facing any threat of external attack, adding, terrorists were the biggest enemies of country. He was speaking at an Anti-terrorism program organized by the US State Department in Islamabad on the occasion of passing out ...
Coalition leaders' meeting ends without result on Judges reinstatement
The meeting between PML(N) Chief, Mian Nawaz Sharif and PPP co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari has ended in Islamabad without any result. According to the sources, the second round of talks between leaders of PML-N and PPP could not come to fruition on the issue of deposed judges. PML-N leaders said ...
South Zone, Central Zone Blues to clash in final
KARACHI - South Zone scored easy seven-wicket win over Central Zone Greens to reach the final of the inaugural Women's National T20 cricket where they meet Central Zone Blues which defeated North Zone by eight wickets in the last league matches of the four team championships here Friday at Pakistan ...
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