United States’ ambassador Richard Olson reaffirmed the long-term US government’s support to farming communities in Pakistan.“Since the 1950s, the United States has been working to support agriculture in Pakistan by introducing the orange and helping to double the country’ ...

islamabad - Pakistan and Azerbaijan are two Muslim brother countries, having profound love and regard for each other, therefore, Azerbaijan strongly desires to further enhance its bilateral, economic and commercial ties with Pakistan. These remarks were made by Dashgin Shikarov, Ambassador of ...

KARACHI - Foreign investors are interested to continue their investment in Pakistan with profitable and fastest growing companies and they are reluctant to sell their shares against meager prices offered by a Fast Moving Consumer Good Company (FMCG) recently.These investors have planned to increase ...

ISLAMABAD - A delegation of Nigerian businessmen based in Islamabad led by Francis Onyisi, President of Nigerian Community in Pakistan visited ICCI to further promote the cause of Nigeria in Pakistan.Speaking on the occasion, afar Bakhtawari, President ICCI said that Pakistan does consider the ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that Pakistan attaches great importance and keen to strengthen its relations with the Kingdom of Bahrain. During his meeting with King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah on the sidelines of Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit on Wednesday, the ...

MOSCOW  - Pakistan and Russia Wednesday agreed to promote and enhance the bilateral relations in diverse fields including trade and energy. The Russian investors have shown keen interest to invest in Thar coal energy project and Pakistan Steel Mills. Addressing a joint press conference along ...

 ISLAMABAD - South Korean companies presently in India will be opening offices in Pakistan, while another South Korean giant Posco has also indicated interest in investing significantly in Pakistan ‘s economy this year, says a press release.This is indicative of the fact that Pakistan ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Ambassador of Poland in Pakistan, Dr Andrzej Ananiez, has urged Pakistani businessmen to invest in new technologies to more efficiently exploit countrys resource potential and to enhance bilateral trade with Poland. The Ambassador was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of ...

LAHORE Punjab Seed Corporation Managing Director Altaf Aizad has said that Punjab Chief Minister is keen to facilitate the growers to enhance per acre yield in the province. Addressing the Aiwan-e-Waqt Forum the MD said that the corporation sells the high quality seeds to the farmers at nominal ...

PARIS (AFP) - Usain Bolt is the headline act for the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, but the Jamaican sprint star has warned that more world records are not likely to be on the cards. Bolt has dominated the 100 and 200m since storming to double gold in world record times at the Beijing ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Korean Company KOSPO & Hyundai expressed its willingness to investment in 2,000MW power project in a time period of five years. The offer was made by seven-member delegation of Korean Southern Power Company Ltd (KOSPO) & Hyundai during their meeting with Advisor to ...

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS (Belgium) (AFP) Brazilian Felipe Massa, his appetite undiminished by the furore surrounding Ferraris 'fixed win in Germany in July, is keen to banish all bad memories with another long-awaited triumph for the Italian team here in Sundays classic Belgian Grand Prix. At Hockenheim, ...

TORONTO (AFP) Roger Federer begins his first trial run with coach Paul Annacone this week, the Swiss marshalling his forces a day prior to a Toronto Masters clash with Juan Ignacio Chela on Tuesday. I thought it was a good time to do a test, said third seed Federer, twice the champion in Toronto. ...

ISLAMABAD - A team of Istituto Agronomico per IOltremare has completed its homework to identify the areas to grow olive trees in Pakistan. Italian investors were keen to invest in olive oil production in Pakistan, said Italian Ambassador Vincenzo Prati while talking to a group of journalists at his ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Federal Minister for Food & Agriculture, Nazar M. Gondal on Wednesday said that Egypt has shown interest in importing wheat from Pakistan and is willing to extend it assistance in modernizing the irrigation system. He was talking to Egyptian ambassador to Pakistan Mr. Magdy Amer, ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - A Norwegian Exploration and Production company here on Wednesday showed keen interest to explore possibilities of investing in oil and gas sector of Pakistan. A delegation of Statoil , Norwegian E&P company, led by Eigil Resmussen, Manager Exploration Middle East visited Islamabad ...

LAHORE - The Punjab government is seeking help of the Law Department and Intelligence agencies to take action against publishers of guide books, guess papers and runners of tuition centres in the province, sources in the Education Department said here Tuesday. They revealed that a meeting in this ...

FORMER Melrose Place star Lisa Rinna is reportedly hoping to reprise her role in The CW's forthcoming reboot. The actress, who played Taylor McBride in the original 1990s series, was photographed running through Los Angeles wearing a sandwich board that read: "Honk 4 Lisa Rinna on the new Melrose ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - A consortium of Korean investors in its negotiations with the government has shown keen interest to set up 1000 MW power generation plants each at Sonda and Thar and gradually increasing them to 3000 MW in five-year period. The consortium of the Korean investors comprising major ...

ABU DHABI (APP) - Abu Dhabi National Energy Company on Tuesday showed its keenness to invest in Pakistan's energy sector, particularly for setting up of a coal-based power plant in the country, which has plenty of untapped coal reservoirs. The interest was shown by Vice President of the company ...

ISLAMABAD (PPI) - The Britain's companies have tremendous interest to take part in the Privatisation Program of Pakistan. Mr. Robert Brinkley British High Commissioner to Pakistan expressed these views during a meeting with Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Privatisation here Wednesday. Syed ...

LEEDS (AFP) - Yorkshire have said they are keen to stage Pakistan 'home' matches at their Headingley headquarters ground. The security situation in Pakistan, which led to the postponement of both a tour by Australia and this year's Champions Trophy one-day tournament, has left the Asian nation ...

BEIJING (APP) - Leading industrialists, business executives and giant investors Friday called on President Asif Ali Zardari and discussed prospects and opportunities for augmenting Chinese investment in important sectors of the economy with an objective to further diversifying and expanding ...

JAIPUR (AFP) - Fit-again Australian Shane Watson said Thursday he was determined to play a key role with both bat and ball in the upcoming Test series in India. The all-rounder, 27, is set to figure in the opening Test of the four-match series starting in Bangalore on October 9 as a seamer and ...

ISTANBUL (APP) - The Turkish Airlines, the national flag carrier, is keen to start a daily flight from Istanbul to Karachi, lahore and Islamabad. This was stated by the Chief Executive Officer of the Turkish Airlines, Dr. Temel Kotil, in an interview here. He said that the Civil Aviation ...

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif Saturday said he was ready to accept Asif Zardari as president if he does away with powers to dissolve parliament. Former president Pervez Musharraf had strengthened his powers through a 17th constitutional amendment, which gave the president the power to dismiss ...

ISLAMABAD  - Argentina is an old friend of Pakistan and the former is keen to further boost and strengthen its bilateral relations including trade for the mutual benefit of the people of the two countries. "The Economic and Commercial section of the Embassy of the Argentine Republic is ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Government is keen to give relief to the poorest of the poor and the mechanism to identify the deserving people is being evolved. This was stated by Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo Advisor to PrimeMinister/ Minister for Industries, Production and Special Initiatives ...

The first semi final of the Indian Premier League will be played between Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Daredevils at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Friday (May 30). Rajasthan Royals, led by former Australian Shane Warne entered the semi final with 11 wins and three defeats in 14 matches while Virender ...

ISLAMABAD - A leading South African (SA) coal mining company Tuesday showed keen interest in the coal mining areas of Thar in Pakistan, expressing desire to exchange know-how and expertise in the development of said discipline to the benefit of both the countries. The South African delegation, ...