ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistani dates exports can be enhanced to between $200 million and $240 million per annum with proper processing and packaging. Currently, the country earns around $28 million from its exports, which does not reflect the real potential of this sector. This was stated by Harvest ...

LAHORE In a petition filed by arms licence holders, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court was informed by the Deputy Attorney General on Wednesday that last date for surrendering arms licences to obtain a computerised one has been extended till October 30th. The petition has been filed ...

Our Staff Reporter BAHAWALPUR - A meeting, presided over by Islamia University Bahawalpur Vice Chancellor Dr Muhammad Mukhtar, decided to extend the admission date of undergraduate and master programmes up till September 29, 2011. The meeting was attended by deans, principals of constituent ...

ISLAMABAD - ARL keeping Petroleum Ministry in dark and dodging senior officials about the exact date of closure of the Plat-former Unit, has ostensibly contributed to leave the people of Punjab province in the lurch. It was learnt that ARL had kept the Petroleum Ministry in the dark and dodging ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Privatisation Commission has extended the dates for receiving the expression of interest (EOI) and Statement of Qualification (SOQ) for the privatisation of 88 per cent shares of Heavy Electrical Corporation (HEC) on, as is where is basis. The PC has received EOIs from various ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER) KARACHII - The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has reminded the general public to exchange the old-design and bigger-size banknote of Rs500 from the field offices of SBP Banking Services Corporation and the branches of all commercial banks throughout the country up to 30th ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Danish ace Peter Gade and world number one Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia on Saturday set up a mouth-watering final in the Indian Open Super Series badminton. Gade, the former All England champion and the third seed, swept aside Koreas Park Sung-Hwan 21-15, 21-19 in the first ...

ISLAMABAD - The management of Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has extended the encashment date of M/S FAL Oils performance bond worth of millions, which reportedly remained failed to sell cargoes of fuel oil to the company. Reliable sources informed that the management of Pakistan State Oil (PSO) agreed ...

BUZZ is building in Britain as we await the news of where and when Prince William and Kate Middletons royal wedding will take place. A St. James Palace spokesman said earlier this week those details will be announced in due course after other members of the Royal Family, Mr and Mrs Middleton and ...

OSAKA (Japan) (AFP) Thailands Tamarine Tanasugarn won the singles crown at the Japan Womens Open tennis tournament Sunday, dashing Kimiko Date Krumms bid to become the oldest player to win a tour title. The 33-year-old Thai ace, the runner-up here in 2001 and the doubles champion with Maria ...

Gen Jack Keane, who was one of the prime movers behind the Iraq surge of 2007, has backed a foreign policy think tank paper that warns talk of Western retreat from the country only emboldens Afghan insurgents. The report attacked the political rhetoric of timelines for withdrawal which played into ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) on Monday urged the government to extend date of filing income tax returns at least one month to facilitate businessmen. They said that the country was facing a crisis-like situation and extension in date for filing of income tax ...

An antigovernment demonstration that has occupied Bangkoks chief commercial district for the past month will depart once Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announces a fixed date for dissolving parliament, protest leaders said on Wednesday. The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), ...

KOLKATA (Agencies) - A day after Indian Home Secretary G K Pillai said Maoists had plans to overthrow the Indian democracy through their armed struggle and want to control the government by 2050, top Naxal leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji on Saturday night claimed it would be achieved much before ...

LAHORE - The medical superintendent of the Mayo Hospital Tuesday suspended a doctor who invited a patients young daughter to 'date at his office. The incident took place in the West Medical Ward of the Mayo Hospital where the victim girl was looking after her ailing mother admitted for the last ...

AFTER rumours that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitts relationship had hit a rocky patch, recent reports claim that a date between Pitt and his former wife Jennifer Aniston has rubbed Jolies wounds again. While Aniston has been in Manhattan shooting for 'The Baster' she was determined to arrange a ...

KARACHI - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has extended the last date for filing the annual returns (Form A/B, as the case may be) for companies to Friday, December 5, 2008. The earlier last date for filing of returns was November 30, 2008. The decision to extend the last ...

A sweeping accord between Iraq and the United States would set the end of 2011 as a concrete date for American withdrawal from Iraq, based on the performance and increasing capacity of the Iraqi security forces, according to a draft of the agreement. The accord, which the Bush administration has ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Former world number four Kimiko Date's comeback trial ended in a first-round loss to Shahar Peer on Tuesday in her first appearance in a main draw in 12 years at the Japan Open tennis tournament. The 228th-ranked Japanese, who has won three ITF titles since her comeback in April, ...

KARACHI - President Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Shamim Ahmed Shamsi has urged Chairman, Federal Board of Revenue Ahmad Waqar to extend the deadline for filing of Income Tax Return from 30th September to 31st October, 2008. Outlining the various reasons, the Chamber Chief ...

WASHINGTON: - An expected U.S.-Iraq long-term strategic agreement will not spell out a specific date for a withdrawal of American troops, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Monday. "What it will not do is have any sort date tied to combat troops, like how many American troops would be ...

Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said here Tuesday there was still a chance to reach an Israeli-Palestinian deal on the outlines of a Palestinian state, but stopped saying it could be sealed by the end of the year. "We still believe that we have a chance to reach an ...