ISLAMABADThe most interesting thing in the central contracts, which the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced for 30 players in four different categories, is the omissions of names of seasoned all-rounder Sohail Tanveer, talented Hammad Azam and Raza Hassan, who were not even considered for C ...

KARACHIPakistan’s top cricketers are expecting the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to give them another pay hike when the new central contracts for the year 2013 are given before the team leaves for the ICC Champions Trophy. The sources close to some of the players said on Sunday that they were ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - A directive issued by the caretaker Punjab chief minister reveals that the Punjab government “violated” rules and regulations while awarding seven labour contracts regarding wheat purchase to its blue-eyed contractor.The directive (vide No ...

Turkmenistan on Wednesday signed agreements with India and Pakistan to deliver gas through a new pipeline that will transit Afghanistan, the first contracts in the ambitious project.The 1,700-kilometre (1,050-mile) TAPI pipeline aims to transport more than 30 billion cubic metres of gas annually ...

KARACHI - Pakistani scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving 86-year imprisonment in a US prison cell, has contracted cancer and allegedly become pregnant as a result of sexual abuse during her confinement.Talking to The News Tribe, her sister Dr Fouzia Siddiqui said she had come to know through ...

KARACHI - In order to handle proper logging and documentation of outbound calls related to collection and recovery, NIB Bank has acquired professional IT services for a collection call recording platform from ZRG International, says a press release. Through an innovative call logging and ...

BEIJING (AFP) - China's non-manufacturing sector contracted in November, according to data released Saturday, as Beijing begins to ease its monetary policy amid signs of a slowdown in the world's second largest economy. The Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 49.7 last month, a fall of eight points ...

SADIQABAD - Local PML-N leaders are allegedly making a full-scale effort to get over Rs 80 million development contracts cancelled as their alleged blue-eyed contractors remained failed in getting these contracts. If the contracts awarded to 100 contractors are cancelled, not only the contractors, ...

KARACHI (APP) - Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has awarded contract to the lowest bidder M/s Swiss Singapore Overseas Enterprise Pte Ltd, Dubai for the supply of 50,000 metric tons of urea at $ 304.40 per tonne C&F Karachi. A TCP official said here Saturday that the tender was floated on ...

KARACHI - After a gap of few months, the future deliverable contracts were re-launched on Monday at the Karachi Stock Exchange while the market response toward the product was not influential enough as the market experts anticipated it. Earlier, the two regulators, Securities and Exchange ...

KARACHI - Market participants celebrated the approval of relaunching of deliverable future contracts on Thursday as the local bourse added 61 points to close at 7,863 points. Moreover, investors remained optimistic throughout the session for significant rate cut in the monetary policy review this ...

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board will award central contracts to 25 players this year on the basis of seniority but would reduce the special benefits and individual performance rewards due to financial crunch. In the new contracts the players would be divided into three categories based on ...

LAHORE - The CATDM Pakistan has demanded the third world countries including Pakistan to refuse repayment of foreign debt to all global financial institutions including WB and IMF as potential of the country to pay off the foreign liabilities is decreasing day after day due to declining foreign ...

BAGHDAD  - Iraq said on Monday it has failed to sign technical support agreements with global oil majors which were aimed at helping boost the war-torn country's oil production. Iraq is negotiating with Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Total, and a consortium of other smaller oil ...