LAHORE - First time in the South Asian history that all the Vice Presidents from different countries of SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry an apex body of chambers in the region Sunday formally felicitated the President PML-N, Nawaz Sharif on his election victory in Pakistan.Vice Presidents one ...

LAHORE - Vikramjit Singh Sahney, President SAARC Chamber, Wednesday urged the leadership of South Asia to form a “South Asian Clearing Union” to augment trade,investment flow for viable financial cooperation besides accelerating the pace of development in the region. According to a ...

KARACHI - Sindh High Court Chief Justice Mushir Alam on Wednesday has underlined the need for concerted efforts by South Asian countries to bring harmony in diversity and pluralistic society and ensure peace in the region.He was speaking at the closing session of a two-day conference ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries need to adopt European Union model to resolve their mutual issues. Addressing a function held in honour of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) members, Tuesday, the ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - A Pakistani delegate, Rana Khalid Mahmood, has returned here after attending a SAARC conference that concluded on December 13 in Sri Lankan capital Colombo. Rana Khalid told the media that the sixth SAARC conference of nature-human centric peoples’ movement will be held in ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Tuesday said that the full potential of South Asia could be realized only by resolving differences and problems peacefully and “purposefully”.He was addressing a luncheon hosted in the honour of the participants of the Sixth Conference of ...

ISLAMABAD – Despite the fact that South Asia has been the major food producer of the world; there is a widespread prevalence of hunger in almost all member states of SAARC because it has failed to take up issues of climate change, free trade and sustainable agriculture which have serious ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has called upon the SAARC countries to join hands to strengthen democracy in the region.Addressing the SAARC parliamentarians at a luncheon in Islamabad on Tuesday, the Prime Minister said the eighteenth‚ nineteenth and twentieth amendments in the ...

ISLAMABAD– All arrangements have been finalised for sixth Conference of the Association of SAARC Speakers and Parliamentarians (CASSP) starting here from Sunday (November 04).The Speakers and Parliamentarians of the SAARC Region will participate in the three-day conference (Nov 04- Nov 06) to ...

ISLAMABAD - Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza on Friday said that the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was an important forum to discuss regional issues, including poverty, food, security, peace, education and health. Talking to Pakistan Television, Fehmida ...

MALE  - The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) has approved a resolution against the blasphemous movie.The resolution was approved at the Saarc interior ministers' conference. Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik had the privilege of presenting the resolution at the ...

ISLAMABAD - The leadership of SAARC Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SAARC CCI) has hailed the governments of Pakistan and India for exhibiting strong commitment to boost socio-economic cooperation by convening series of talks on politico-economic level, which will help boost the morale of ...

ISLAMABAD - Jigme Thinley, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan, will inaugurate the SAARC CCI Youth Convention under the theme “Light Tomorrow with Today” which shall be followed by technical session to be held in Paro, Bhutan at Hotel Zhiwaling on Saturday (today), says a Press ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Diplomats and business community urged members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to address their mutual disputes for exploiting economic potential of the region mired in poverty. They said SAARC could be turned into a vibrant forum for the benefit ...

ADDU (APP) - The 17th Saarc Summit concluded here on Friday adopting a very promising 20-point agenda reaffirming its commitment to peace, confidence building, liberty, dignity, democracy, mutual respect, good governance and protection of human rights. The summit, which was attended by eight ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Pakistan is unable to host the first South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Cycling Championship due to non-availability of international level velodrome in the country. It will be decided in the Asian Cycling Federation meeting in New Dehli on ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) A conference on Cooperation between 'Election Management Bodies (EMBs) of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Member States would be held here on September 8. The three-day conference would conclude on September 10. The CECs are likely to discuss Strategic ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) is in contact with competition authorities in the SAARC region to set up a South Asia Competition Network (SCN). The Chairman CCP Khalid Mirza on Wednesday informed the Competition Consultative Group (CCG) in this regard, while ...

KARACHI (PR) - SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SAARC CCI) and German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) will soon sign an MoU to implement SAARC Trade Information Project (TIP). This was resolved during a meeting held between the officials of SAARC CCI headed by Iftikhar Ali Malik, Vice ...

LAHORE (PR) - SCCI has organized a seminar under the theme of "Socio-Economic prospects in the SAARC region - The Way Forward' to celebrate 'SAARC Charter Day'. SAARC Charter Day is being celebrated on Dec 8 which reminds the perspective govts of SAARC and its affiliated organizations to continue ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is fully committed to achieve the development goals set within the SAARC ambit, aiming at improving living standards of the people and reducing absolute poverty, Dr Rashid Amjad, Chief Economist, Planning and Development, said here Saturday. Addressing the concluding ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - South Asian leaders meeting in Sri Lanka this weekend will discuss improving commercial ties but political and other tensions have dampened hopes a regional free trade pact will be implemented any time soon, economists say. The eight-member South Asian Association for Regional ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Sri Lankan Government has proposed establishment of SAARC Industrial Zone to promote trade and industrial activities in the South Asian region. According to a press release by SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) here on Friday, President SCCI, Tariq Sayeed ...

ISLAMABAD  - The SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) and SAARC Law have principally agreed to form a Joint Association of Professionals in South Asia with an objective to improve transparency, accountability and governance leading to ...

DASKA - All the eight SAARC member countries would approve the inclusion of services sector in the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) during the coming schedule meeting of SAARC in June 2008, which was earlier only related to trading. President SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry Tariq ...