KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged the ministry of commerce (MoC) to include rice in addition to wheat for barter with Iran against electricity and stated that it would be a wise step to re-enter the market for selling country’s popular rice varieties to ...

RAWALPINDI – The Traffic Warden System introduced in Rawalpindi on the lines of Islamabad Model Traffic Police has not produce the desired impact on traffic flow due to flaws in the initial training of the personnel which was inadequate to handle the heavy responsibility entrusted to them.The ...

Colin Powell was lied to and 'manipulated into supporting the invasion of Iraq, it was claimed last night. The former Secretary of State was deliberately not told that information he used to make his famous speech justifying the war was bogus, a former colleague claimed. Instead the George W Bush ...

Federal finance minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has confessed that there are some serious discrepancies in the taxation system of the country while he also said that the implementation of the reformed GST would not add to the already prevailing wave of inflation, a private TV reported on Monday. The ...

PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif has said Federal Budget for the fiscal 2010-11 will shift more financial burden to the poor segments of society and will add to their economic woes. He said this while presiding over a meeting of PML-N senior leadership held at Raiwind Monday to deliberate over ...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that he would like to add significant US forces to the war in Afghanistan before national elections scheduled for next year, and that grim depictions of backsliding in the seven-year-old war are ''far too pessimistic.''Gates said the additional forces would give ...