KARACHI (PR) : Thirteen student teams from Pakistan’s top universities are preparing ultra energy-efficient vehicles for Shell’s annual super-mileage competition, the Eco-marathon. The competition will be held from July 4-7, 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where over 1,000 students from ...

  LJUBLJANA : A Slovenian adventurer specialising in extreme flights headed towards the North Pole on Monday in an ultra-light plane equipped to measure air pollution over a hot-spot for global warming. The GreenLight WorldFlight-North Pole project is the first attempt to pilot a flyweight ...

ISLAMABAD – The planned Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul trade corridor will help Pakistan export its trade goods to Turkey without any hindrance. The trade corridor, which is also known as ECO trade corridor, will later be expanded to the European countries. The decision to establish the trade ...

It is horrifying that the Indus river, its barrages, its canals and water courses are being polluted to the brim. Tons of industrial, domestic and hospitals’ waste are being dumped and drained into the Indus and its canals. Scenic lakes and streams are being defiled in the province. The ...

President Asif Ali Zardari announced that Pakistan would host the next Summit of the organisation in 2014 in Islamabad.Attending the 12th ECO Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, he called for unity to collectively defeat the mindset behind the assassination attempt of Pakistan’s daughter Malala ...

ISLAMABAD - The Parliamentarians from Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) member countries Wednesday unanimously adopted the draft agreed Charter of the (to be formed) Parliamentary Association of Economic Cooperation Organisation (PAECO) in the concluding session of the 2-days meeting of the ...

ISLAMABAD  - Federal Minister for Communications Dr Arbab Alamgir said on Thursday that the members of Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) agreed to create Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul trade corridor which would enable Pakistan to export its goods to Turkey without any hindrance.Addressing a ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD - A five-member delegation of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) led by Muhammad Yahya P Maroofi, Secretary General of ECO, called on the Commerce Secretary here at the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. The Secretary General briefed the meeting about the progress made by the ECO in ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari is scheduled to travel to Istanbul on Wednesday to participate in the 11th summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) members, officials informed. Meanwhile, a high-ranking delegation of officials, including experts from the Ministry of Foreign ...

SIALKOT - Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan M Babur Hizlan has said that work on the establishment of honorary Turkish Consulate in Sialkot is underway and hopefully it would be operational in near future. Addressing the members of Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) here, he said the ...

ISLAMABAD - The signing ceremony of Articles of Agreement for the establishment of Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) Reinsurance Company was held here on Wednesday. The delegates representing Iran, Pakistan and Turkey attended the ceremony. The authorised delegates Dr Javed Farshbaf Maherian ...