LONDON : Britain turned up the pressure on other rich economies to clamp down on secretive money flows at a summit next week by pressing its overseas tax havens into a transparency deal and announcing new disclosure rules for UK firms. Cameron for progress on closing global tax loopholes when he ...

BERLIN - China's Premier Li Keqiang is to hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday as the close economic partners seek to weather a brewing trade spat between Beijing and the EU and forge deeper ties.The new premier's visit to Germany, by far China's biggest European trading ...

  Kathmandu BBC A Saudi woman has made history by reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain. Raha Moharrak, 25, not only became the first Saudi woman to attempt the climb but also the youngest Arab to make it to the top of Everest. She is part of a four-person expedition that ...

LAHORE - Punjab University has won Gold Medal from Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST) in a 2-day "Invention to Innovation Summit 2013". The Gold Medal was awarded to research group of Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology Dr. Amir Shafeeq, Dr. Ayyaz Muhammad and ...

LAHORE - Invention to Innovation Summit 2013 on Tuesday began at Punjab University under the auspices of PU’s Office of Research Innovations and Commercialisation, Ministry of Science and Technology, Pakistan Science Foundation, Institute of Research Promotion (IRP), University of Management ...

KARACHI (PR) - With the inauguration of its flagship branch, Summit Bank continues to increase its footprint in Pakistan. The ribbon cutting ceremony at the new branch was performed by the CEO and Managing Director of Dolmen Group, Nadeem Riaz along with President & CEO of the bank, Husain ...

Presidents Asif Ali Zardari‚ Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Turkish President Abdullah Gul held talks at the presidential palace in Ankara before the start of 7th Trilateral summit.They discussed regional peace and security. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan also attended the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO  - The biggest UN summit on sustainable development in a decade approved a strategy on Friday to haul more than a billion people out of poverty and cure the sickness of the biosphere.But critics branded the plan a cruel failure, saying it had been gutted of ambition by national ...

SEOUL  - World leaders including US President Barack Obama called Tuesday for strong steps to combat nuclear terrorism, wrapping up a 53-nation summit overshadowed by North Korea’s planned rocket launch.“Today we have set a new milestone in making the world a safer and more ...

ISLAMABAD : The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday lauded the government for hosting trilateral summit that will help bring three neighbours closer.The move will help Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran resolve many regional issues without interference of the west, it said. All the countries are ...

LAHORE Critically acclaimed and award winning investigative journalist/filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is one of the 150 next generation leaders from 30 countries in the Asia Pacific region to participate in the Asia Societys sixth annual Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit, to be held in New Delhi from ...

BERLIN (AFP) - The leaders of France and Germany, the eurozone's top economies, hold a summit here Sunday to find common ground on a plan to recapitalise banks amid rampant fears of a crippling credit crunch. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the face of ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON The US State Department Tuesday branded as ironic an anti-terrorism summit held last week in Tehran. We consider it quite ironic that Iran, the most active state sponsor of terrorism, is holding a meeting on terrorism, said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. Delegates from 60 ...

KARACHI - Continuing its tradition of information and knowledge exchange, CIO Pakistan/ Afghanistan organised its 4th Annual CIO Year Ahead 12 Summit here the other day at a local hotel. Onboard for the Summit was event presenter, IBM Pakistan, says a press release. In partnership with the World ...

KARACHI - An agreement, to facilitate Pakistanis residing abroad to send home remittances, has been signed between Summit Bank (formerly Arif Habib Bank) and Xpress Money, says a press release. Summit Bank is one of the fastest growing commercial banks in Pakistan with over 1000 remittance payout ...

KARACHI - The re-launch of Summit Bank (formerly Arif Habib Bank) was announced by the banks management here on Monday at a press briefing session held at a local hotel. Addressing the media, Husain Lawai, President & CEO Summit Bank, said, We want to give our customers a satisfying banking ...

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 ...

LAHORE - Nutshell Forum and Bank Alfalah Limited in strategic partnership with Pakistan Society for Human Resource Management arranged the 'Middle East South Asian - learning and organization development summit here at a local hotel the other day. According to a press release, the theme chosen for ...

HANOI (AFP) - A landmark meeting on cluster munitions has set targets to destroy stockpiles of the weapons, clean up areas contaminated with unexploded ordnance and help victims of the bombs, an activist said Friday. Nations represented at the talks in Laos set a series of one-year targets for ...

SEOUL (AFP) - The worlds 20 biggest rich and emerging powers were locked late Thursday in anguished talks on fixing distortions that threaten global growth, as their leaders kicked off a fractious summit. The United States, striving to recover from its worst economic crisis in decades, locked ...

LAHORE - The second Lahore Management & HRD summit begins at a local hotel. Theme of this two-day summit is Leadership Focus People Development for Peak Performance. Nutshell Forum and Abacus Consulting in Strategic Partnership with Pakistan Society for Human Resource Management are hosting this ...

ISLAMABAD (PPI) - Etihad Airways has flown young Pakistani Muslim leaders to the United Kingdom to take part in the 2010 Mosaic International Summit which aims to grow their leadership skills, for use in their careers and communities. The delegates flew with Etihad from Bangladesh, Pakistan, ...

LAHORE (PR) - University of Central Punjab is holding its fifth Youth Entrepreneurial Summit (YES10) under the banner of IDEAS, The Rising Spirit Society for Encouraging the Practice of Leadership. It is a 5-day event starting from June 11th till June 15th, 2010. The event partner for YES10 is ...

ISLAMABAD The Second EU-Pakistan Summit scheduled to be held in Brussels on April 21 (Wednesday) has been postponed due to halt in European air travel resulting from volcanic eruption, Foreign Ministry said on Monday. According to a press note issued from the Foreign Office, the Second EU-Pakistan ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - A summit meeting between Pakistans Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and EU leaders set for Wednesday in Brussels will be postponed due the halt in European air traffic, a diplomatic source told AFP. The summit will be postponed, the office of the Pakistani Prime Minister has ...

WASHINGTON US President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on world leaders not simply to talk, but to act to secure or destroy vulnerable stockpiles of nuclear materials, underscoring that the prospect of nuclear terrorism had emerged as one of the greatest threats to the global security. Meanwhile, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will seek to build momentum with China in his push for sanctions on Iran as world leaders assemble in Washington on Monday for an unprecedented nuclear security summit. Obama will hold talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao before hosting ...

ROME (AFP) - First ladies from countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, including the wife of Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, held a summit on agriculture in Rome Sunday on the eve UN talks on world hunger. The meeting was chaired by Suzanne Sabet, the wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - US President Barack Obama managed to get the Israeli and Palestinian leaders together in the same room, and yet they remained as far apart as ever. There was a sheepish handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, but no ...