islamabadForeign countries are going to shut doors on unaccredited, unlicensed and uncertified labour by 2015 and at present this is the big challenge to vocational and technical training institutes to make the whole workforce accredited, licensed and certified.  Executive Director National ...

  CAMBRIDGE,US MOL Ugandahas been revealed as the most ethnically mixed country on the planet according to a new scientific study that blows apart misconceptions that western nations are the most racially diverse. Academics atHarvardUniversity’s Institute for Economic Research spent a ...

Lueneburg, Germany The SunIndia, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong are the least tolerant countries in the world - but Britain is among the most accepting, a survey has found. The World Values Survey asked people in more than 80 countries what type of people they did NOT want as neighbours. More ...

PARIS  The unemployment rate across rich countries eased slightly to 8.0 percent in March, the OECD said on Wednesday but this meant that 48.3 million people were officially without work in the downdraught of the financial and eurozone debt crises. The figures and trends for the 34-nation OECD ...

ISLAMABAD  - Pakistan Friday confirmed that eight host governments including the United States have agreed to help conduct polling for millions of overseas Pakistani registered voters in their respective countries.Foreign Office spokesman, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary told a questioner during the ...

Karachi - Allama Raja Nasir Jafari, secretary general, Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, has said that the US and its allies in Arab countries are hijacking Pakistani elections. He appealed to all the political parties to join hands against these US stooges and turn down them. He said that MWM was a ...

PARIS - DM - An engineer has turned his back on his trade and set out across Europe to learn 33 more instead.Jan Lachner, 25, arrived in the UK this week to come face-to-face with sharks as a diving cleaner for the 31st stop on his trip. Lachner, who began his project 18 months ago as a fisherman ...

UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan has underscored the need for accountability for countries and regions that have been ravaged by war and armed conflict to pave the way for rebuilding their societies and transition them towards reconciliation.Speaking in the General Assembly on the role of the ...

PESHAWAR - One Abdullah, resident of Peshawar, on Tuesday announced to leave for a ‘Peace Tour’ of ten countries via bicycle, aims to dispel the negative impression about Pakistan and promote a soften image of the motherland across the world. Addressing a news conference here at press ...

Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that cooperation among the South Asian countries is vital to fight terrorism.Addressing the 8th SAFMA conference here in Lahore on Wednesday‚ he said that cooperation among the regional countries is essential for elimination of terrorism.He said ...

ISLAMABAD - Atomic Energy Commission Director General Dr Yousuf Zafar has appreciated the fact that despite late start, the country has achieved a substantial economic gain through biotechnology application (cotton). Using Pakistan as a model country, he urged the other OIC nations to move forward ...

FAISALABAD - The selection committee of the Islamic Development Bank has decided to confer a 'Prize for Science & Technology' award on the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.The award conferred for achieving outstanding contribution to a 'Scientific  Discipline' will encourage other ...

RAWALPINDI - The PPP-led government is striving hard to improve the trade relations with the South Asian Association Regional Corporation (SAARC) countries and granting India the status of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) is an example in this regard.These views were expressed by Federal Minister for ...

BEIJING  - China has remained good momentum in developing economic ties with other Asian countries in 2011 and is ready to strengthen cooperation with them to achieve common development, Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said on Sunday.Liu made the remarks when responding to a ...

LAHORE (Online) - International IT & Telecom Exhibition & Conference (IITEC) Pakistan will be held here at Lahore Expo Centre from 7th to 9th April 2012. According to press release issued here on Saturday, it is the only event in Pakistan, which has exclusive support of CMEC-China National ...

LAHORE (APP) Ambassador of Sudan in Pakistan Al-Shafie Ahmed Mohamed urged Muslim countries to unite to face future economic challenges. Speaking at a reception hosted by Mian Muhammad Saeed Arain Derawalay, a leading exporter, in his honour here, he said that Europe was in deep economic ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik while giving briefing to the Parliaments Committee on Balochistan and Karachi law and order said that some neighbouring countries were behind the Balochistan unrest and they have credible evidence in this regard. The committee met here at ...

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada has the best reputation in the world while Pakistan, Iran and Iraq are ranked lowest in the 50-country study measuring public perceptions around the world, released on Tuesday. While the United States and China were ranked in the middle and lower tiers. The Reputation ...

WASHINGTON (APP) - Pakistan is ranked as one of top countries that registered high growth rates in broadband Internet penetration among their populace, the latest worldwide data report for Q1 2010 to Q1 2011 says. Serbia leads all countries surveyed with a 68% annual growth rate from Q1 2010 to Q1 ...

The billionaire founder of PayPal is planning to create his own countries - by building them on giant floating platforms in international waters. Peter Thiel, 43, is funding a project that intends to create new societies governed in a radically different manner from conventional states. The ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - The 4th ministerial summit of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) countries on commerce and trade, which started in Kabul from Monday, in order to decide a roadmap for multidimensial regional trade and action plan for establishment of Free Trade Area in the region ...

SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - Naina Valasai had never boarded an airplane before arriving in Santa Fe this week. In fact the 33-year-old from a remote desert region in Pakistan had never left her village before she was invited to present her ornately patterned ralli quilts at the Santa Fe ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT UNITED NATIONS - Italy is organising a big meeting of UN member states in Rome next week in an obvious bid to chart out a strategy aimed at halting the momentum of the G-4 countries (India, Brazil, Germany and Japan), who are campaigning for permanent membership in an expanded ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Around 1.7 billion people are hand to mouth and living lives below the poverty line. Amongst them 44 percent are residing in Muslim countries and this factor highlights the need of Islamic microfinance in an effective way. According to the experts, poverty alleviation has become a ...

LAHORE The country has exported 4.6 million tons of rice to 120 countries of the world in current fiscal year with limited resources. This was stated by Taufiq Ahmed Khan, Vice Chairman of Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) while briefing the newly-inducted officers of Commerce & Trade ...

THE world is considered a more corrupt place now than it was three years ago, a poll suggested on Thursday. Some 56 per cent of people interviewed by Transparency International said their country had become more corrupt, reported BBC. The organisation put Afghanistan, Nigeria, Iraq and India in the ...

KARACHI (APP) - About 134 food export consignments have been rejected by European countries due to presence of pesticides residues, heavy metals and afro-toxin in the last three years. This was stated by the director grain quality testing laboratories, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council Dr ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan is planning to offer economic aid to countries rich in rare metal resources, with an eye on securing supplies of the materials used in environmentally friendly cars, a report said Monday. In the first of such deals, Japan is looking to offer tens of billions of yen (hundreds of ...

ISLAMABAD The Ministry of Sports has decided to analyse the sports constitutions of three countries before finalising the new sports policy, which is due to be announced next month. A source inside the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) told The Nation here Tuesday that the ministry officials imported ...

WASHINGTON - Air travellers from Pakistan and 13 other countries will face 'full-body pat-downs before boarding US-bound flights under new security screening procedures, it was announced by the United States on Sunday night. The Transportation Security Administration said the new procedures, ...