Jamiat Ahle Hadith chief Senator Allama Sajid Mir on Sunday said that a major shift in foreign policy is needed for economic betterment and sovereignty of the county. Addressing party’s executive committee meeting, he said that due to bad policies of former rulers, Saudi Arabia and China had ...

islamabad - Caretaker Federal Minister for Water and Power Dr Musadik Malik has said that Pakistan has great potential of renewable energy and policies should be devised to attract the investors in this sector by facilitating them. He added that the AEDB should play its role as a one-window ...

CONN HALLINANIn the current crisis on the Korean Peninsula the Obama administration is virtually repeating the 2004 Bush playbook, one that derailed a successful diplomatic agreement forged by the Clinton administration to prevent North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons? While the acute tensions ...

NEW YORK : The yen strengthened Friday after the United States said it was monitoring Japan’s policies and urged Tokyo to avoid “competitive devaluation” of its currency. The dollar bought 98.37 yen around 2200 GMT, down from 99.73 late Thursday. The euro fell to 128.89 yen from ...

Knowledge and skills depend on the education system as education is merely the delivery of knowledge rather skills and information from teachers to students. What is really important about being and becoming educated? Being an educated person means you have access to finest state of mind regardless ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has called for political consensus on economic policies and their continuity to ensure sustainable development of the country.He was addressing members of the Overseas Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industries in Islamabad Thursday.The President asked the business ...

LAHORE – Special Assistant to Prime Minister Fawad Ahmed Chaudhry on Sunday criticised the four-year performance and policies of the Punjab government, terming all its projects flawed and indicative of its misplaced priorities.Addressing a press conference at a local hotel, Fawad said the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - US President Barack Obama offered a direct rebuttal Wednesday of Mitt Romney's foreign policy critique, saying his leadership had forged a "different world" in just four years. In a sweeping survey of his diplomatic worldview, Obama implicitly rejected claims he is ...

TARBELA GHAZI - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, President Pir Sabir Shah has said the rulers have looted the country, which is confronted with a maze of multifarious problems due to their ‘wrong’ policies.This he said as he reached his constituency, along with ...

SIALKOT - Following the growing number of citizens’ and local political figures’ joining in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the PML-N has changed its policy in the district making the party stronger by launching a mass-contact campaign, as the local party leaders are going door-to-door to ...

ISLAMABAD - Samina Fazil, founder president of Islamabad Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IWCCI), on Saturday said the incumbent government failed to provide any relief to masses in 2011.Controversial policies and unpopular decisions have made life very difficult for masses and ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT UNITED NATIONS - The current international trade regime backed by the World Trade Organization (WTO) is harming small-scale farmers in the least developing countries (LDCs), significantly increasing their risk of food insecurity and reliance on large-scale producers, a UN ...

SWAT Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa President Amir Muqam on Saturday said that it is very strange that Muttahida Qaumi at one stage holds rallies against PPP and President Zardari while next day it took to streets in their favour. Terming the current government corrupt, he ...

SAHIWAL - Former federal parliamentary secretary Mian Anwarul Haq Ramay has said that anti-masses policies of the federal government have jolted the whole economy of the country. Talking to the newsmen, he said that during the last 3-year-regime of the PPP, prices of fertiliser and seeds had been ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association (PAMA) is chalking out a plan of action to resist the anti-industrial policies, including allowing commercial import of old vehicles and lowering of import duties on advice of a foreign consultant likely to be enforced by the government against ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE While demanding role of business community in decision making, Pakistan Industrial & Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has urged the government to redesign all economy-related policies in consultation with private sector to bring the country out of IMF and WB ...

LAHORE (PPI) - SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vice President Iftikhar Ali Malik has said that the private sector is the engine of growth as is not only creating jobs but also giving much needed revenue to the government therefore it must be trusted and respected by all government ...

MULTAN Jamat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch said on Friday that the bond of trust between army and masses is fast decaying and the only way to protect this relation is to change all internal and foreign policies. Talking to the journalists after condoling the demise of Qari Muhammad Mian, ...

LAHORE (APP) - Economic growth hinges on implementation of good governance practices and value addition, therefore, the government needs to revisit its all economy related policies while taking private sector on board to break the logjam-like situation being faced by both the trade and ...

AHMAD AHMADANI ISLAMABAD - Hilal A Raza, Managing Director (MD) Inter-State Gas Systems (ISGC), said that Pakistan would sign Gas Sales Purchase Agreement (GSPA) on a multibillion dollars Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline deal on April 30, 2011. The MD while addressing the ...

ISLAMABAD - Muttahida Muslim League (MML) would start a movement against the policies of the government and 'corrupt leadership on February 5 as a public meeting would be hold in Lahore. MML is in regular contact with Tehreek-e-Insaf, PPP Sherpao, Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and soon ...

LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Munawar Hasan has stressed upon the masses to resolve to dispense with foreign aid by moulding their life pattern, tightening their belts and changing their priorities. The overall situation in the country calls for a big sacrifice and if the people are ready for ...

LAHORE - Top leadership of PML-Q, Like-Minded while unveiling 22-point roadmap for the betterment of Pakistan announced that one job for each family across Pakistan is vital for progress and prosperity of the country. Like-Minded key leaders disclosed main points of their roadmap at a news ...

LAHORE - Central spokesman of Majlas-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen Allama Hussain Zafar Naqvi has demanded of the government to give up unfair and tyrant policies against Millat-e-Jaffria and arrest the culprits, involved in target killing incidents in Lahore, Karachi and Quetta and award them exemplary ...

LAHORE-The PPP leaders on Thursday strongly condemned the PML-N for staging walkout from National Assembly in protest against reinstatement of sacked employees. In a joint Press statement, PPPs Punjab acting president Samiullah Khan, Secretary Information Dr Fakharuddin Chaudhry, Deputy Secretary ...

LAHORE - Governor Punjab Salman Taseer has called those terrorists as non-Muslim and beasts, which massacred innocent people especially during the month of Ramazan at a procession at Gamay Shah, Lahore and Quetta. He expressed these views while talking to media at Services Hospital on Saturday ...

LAHORE - PML-Q leader Moonis Elahi has alleged that Punjab, under the burden of Shahbaz governments disastrous financial and administrative policies, had submerged in deep and murky water much before the floods began their devastation. Moonis Elahi blamed the self proclaimed Khadim-e-Alas poor ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing has urged officials to implement policies aimed at encouraging foreign investment, amid rising complaints from overseas companies that Chinas business environment is worsening. The statement issued by the State Council, or cabinet, on Thursday was an apparent response to ...

ISLAMABAD The Government on Friday in the Senate had to face criticism interestingly not from the opposition benches but from one of its own Federal Ministers, Azam Khan Swati, as he reacted to what he termed the anti-poor policies of the present regime. Earlier, the Governments coalition partners ...

QUETTA - President Balochistan Bar Association (BBA) Baz Muhammad Kakar has alleged the incumbent government of toeing the policies of former dictator Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf, saying the killing of a Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) activist in Quetta at a peaceful rally is a crystal ...