WASHINGTON : A State Department spokesperson on Thursday sidestepped a question whether the United States was playing any role in bringing India and Pakistan closer, stating it was upto the two South Asian countries to work on their relationship. "In terms of the scope and how a developing ...

lahoreThe Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Liu Jian, called on PML-N President Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in Raiwind on Wednesday and congratulated him over PML-N’s victory in elections on the behalf of his country. The ambassador emphasised that the Chinese leaders and people had great respect for ...

LAHORE : US Economic Officer Doreen Bailey has said that the United States is keen to strengthen trade and economic relations with Pakistan in all sectors of the economy and to achieve the goal. She was talking to the LCCI President Farooq Iftikhar during a visit to the Lahore Chamber of Commerce ...

KARACHI (PR): Founded by Lebanese serial entrepreneur Omar Onsi in 2008, Nymgo is a leading voice service provider that offers users lowest-cost/high-quality international VoIP calling to mobile and landlines. VoIP itself is a market estimated to be worth $90 billion and economies like Pakistan are ...

LAHORE  - The private sector of Pakistan must further explore the markets of Turkey, UK and Germany where huge potential exists for Pakistani quality products. All Pakistan Paper Merchants Association (APPMA) leader Khamis Saeed Butt stated this while talking to media here Tuesday. He said ...

rawalpindi(PR)Funeral prayers of a Pakistan Army Peacekeeper, Subedar Tanveer Hussain, was offered at his native village Nakka Kahut, Tehsil Talagang, District Chakwal on Tuesday. Subedar Tanveer Hussain was buried with full military honour.The peacekeeper had embraced martyrdom in Congo last week ...

UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the people and government of Pakistan on the successful conduct of the general elections, calling it "a significant step forward for democracy in the country.""By exercising their constitutional right to vote, the people of Pakistan ...

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) has paid tributes to it’s Pakistani peacekeeper, who was killed in an attack last Tuesday, according to a UN report.During a ceremony held on Thursday in Kavumu, South Kivu province, ...

ISLAMABAD - Cervical cancer kills an estimated 7,311 women in Pakistan annually.More women die of cervical cancer in India than anywhere in the world. India along with China, Brazil, Bangladesh and Nigeria represent over 50 per cent of the global burden of cervical cancer deaths. However, African ...

WASHINGTON  - The United States has condemned the threats by militant groups to disrupt May 11 national election in Pakistan, while voicing hope that eligible voters would exercise their franchise in a free and fair atmosphere.“The United States condemns the recent violence that has ...

Permanent Pakistani Representative to United Nations (UN) Masood Khan, Saturday, said that Pakistan had made considerable progress to counter terrorist financing and border control.“We have deployed 150,000 troops on Pak-Afghan border and have set up 822 posts to interdict Al-Qaida/Taliban ...

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 ...

karachi - Mohammad Haroon Agar, President Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has said that Pakistan is the most promising land in the region for the fresh British investment as many British corporations are operating successfully and expanding their businesses across Pakistan and beyond.He ...

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon   When Amb James Dobbins arrives at the ground-floor offices of the State Department’s Special Representative forAfghanistanandPakistanhe will find a depleted staff, a moribund peace process and a mandate riddled with colossal diplomatic challenges. Secretary ...

ISLAMABADThe trial matches started here at Mushaf Ali Mir Complex on Tuesday for the selection of Pakistan squash team for the upcoming World Team Squash Championship to be held in France from June 9 to 15. Pakistan head coach Jamshed Gul is conducting the trial matches assisted by M Ikram, Asif ...

ISLAMABAD : The Harvest Tradings CEO Ahmed Jawad has said that to boost trade with the neighbouring country, caretaker government needed to review Pak-India trade agreement. He said that there was not other option than enhancing trade to normalise the bilateral political and diplomatic relations ...

  ISLAMABAD   National Logistics Cell (NLC) handed over the newly constructed building of Liaqat Ali Khan Engineering Faculty Block atBulkhUniversityat an impressive ceremony held atMazar-i-Sharif,Afghanistan. According to ISPR, the mega project of the university has been completed by NLC ...

sialkot/new dwlhi/muzaffarabad - our staff reporter/ agencies - Sanaullah Haq, a Pakistani prisoner, died at a hospital in Indian city of Chandigarh on Saturday after being attacked by an inmate at a jail in Held-Kashmir a day ago in what appears to be a retaliatory attack from the neighbouring ...

SIALKOT : Algerian Ambassador in Pakistan, Dr Ahmed Benflis has underscored further enhancing trade ties between Algeria and Pakistan.  Addressing members of the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry  (SCCI) on Saturday, he called upon Pakistani business community to visit Algeria and ...

karachi - Brazil is the largest trade partner of Pakistan in Latin America. This was stated by President Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry while meeting with Alfredo Leoni, Ambassador of Brazil to Pakistan. He said that current volume of bilateral trade which is just $102 ...

ISLAMABAD - The World Press Freedom Day was observed in Pakistan on Friday which reminded people of many journalists who embraced martyrdom or faced jails for keeping aloft the banner of freedom.The World Press Freedom Day is annually observed on May 3 reminding that freedom of press and expression ...

LAHORE - Pakistan will take part in the second World U-12 Baseball Cup being played from July 18 in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei. As many as 16 world's best junior teams will feature in the event in which Pakistan has been placed in group B along with USA, Venezuela, Brazil, South Korea, Panama, ...

    ISLAMABAD   Former world squash champion Qamar Zaman has said thePakistanmale players chances of winning are more than 70 percent in the 17th FMC Asian Senior Individual Squash Championship as all three players Aamir, Nasir and Farhan Mahboob are very good and technically very ...

A Pakistani prisoner was ruthlessly attacked by Indian inmates in a jail of occupied Kashmir, here in Srinagar on Friday.Sanaullah was rushed to the GMC hospital, reported Indian media, adding that the assailant  was a former army soldier.Local sources said the injured went into coma because ...

WASHINGTON - A US government-appointed panel urged Washington Tuesday to step up pressure on Pakistan over religious freedom, warning that risks to its minorities have reached a crisis level.In an annual report, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom also raised concerns about what it ...

NEW DELHI - India has warned Pakistan that it will retaliate massively even if Pakistan used tactical nuclear weapons against it. As Pakistan is developing "tactical" nuclear warheads to miniaturise its weapons to be carried on short-range missiles, India will protect its security interests by ...

LAHORE (PR): Pakistani national and Doha Bank executive Raheela Khan has been named a 2013 Yale World Fellow, announced Yale University President Richard C. Levin. Khan is Assistant Manager of Treasury and Investments for Doha Bank, a major Qatari financial institution. A Pakistani national born in ...

islamabad - The fifth Technical Level Meeting on Pakistan-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (PSFTA) was held in Islamabad from April 29-30, 2013 wherein both the countries emphasised upon the need to enhance the existing level of trade and commerce through greater interaction.The meeting was ...

ISLAMABAD - China has a dream and the dream will be translated into reality when we will complete the process of modernising our country by the mid of this century, said Chinese Ambassador Liu Jian. He stated this while addressing the prize distribution ceremony of the 12th Chinese Bridge - Chinese ...

ISLAMABAD- Asian Tennis Federation (ATF) vice president Senator Dilawar Abbas, who is also patron of Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF), has taken up the awarding of Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group II tie toNew Zealandin the Board of Directors meeting of the ATF held inBangkoklate Sunday evening. ...