ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday said Information Technology can help alleviate poverty and transform our society and economy.Pakistan can accelerate economic growth to get rid of many problems by improving its talent pool with the help of technology, it said.The incoming ...

I was standing in a queue waiting to pay in a busy grocery shop when a little girl pushed her way to the front. The cashier stopped what he was doing to attend to her. She waved the ice cream stick and asked how much it cost.When she was given the answer, she looked back at a lady, who was taking a ...

lahore -  PRChairperson Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) Rashida Malik has said that availability of skilled manpower is not only a key to success for industrial development in Pakistan but also for individual socio-economic prosperity and poverty alleviation in ...

WASHINGTON  - The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Saturday called for global efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030 and enhance prosperity sharing in different countries.“We believe that we have a historic opportunity to end extreme poverty within a ...

WASHINGTON (AFP): The World Bank gathered the might of the international community Saturday behind its audacious plan to eradicate extreme poverty within a generation."This is it. This is the global target to end poverty," said World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, visibly pleased after the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP): Fast-paced African countries may have growth rates that are the envy of developed economies, but the continent's boom has failed in recent years to significantly dent poverty levels, economists say. Sub-Saharan Africa is set to grow by 5.6pc this year, according to figures ...

TALAGANG:-Two poverty-stricken people committed suicide here Saturday. Thirty-year-old Mujeebur Rehman, a resident of Toha Mehram Khan, shot himself dead. Reportedly, the deceased was jobless. Separately, Ahmed Khan from Lawa committed suicide. The same reason was cited. Police registered separate ...

ISLAMABAD –  The skill development through trainings can play vital role in reduction of poverty and enhancing the growth of economy in the country.This was stated by Chief Executive Officer (ECO) Institute of Rural Management (IRM) Roomi S. Hayat during concluding session of 10-days ...

At one time, not so very long ago, a Pakistani could proudly say, while drawing a comparison with India where millions slept hungry at night, that no-one in his country went to bed with an empty stomach. No more, alas! The spiraling rise in the prices of goods of daily use, on the one hand, and the ...

LAHORE (PR) Thousands of industrial workers had become unemployed due to loadshedding of gas & power and closure of thousands of industrial units in Punjab. Poor government policies are aggravating unemployment and poverty in the country. The Social & economic deprivation of the poor masses ...

KARACHI - More than 35 per cent patients of preventable cataract ailment become blind in Pakistan because of unawareness, poverty and inaccessibility to eye care facilities in the rural areas.Dr Naveed Arbab, who provides medical facilities to the poor patients in Sindh, said that working women ...

SAMBRIAL – The trend of collective sacrifice of animals on Eidul Azha is becoming popular with the passage of time due to increasing prices of goats, sheep, cow and camels in Sambrial like other parts of the country. People are of the view that the prices of sacrificial animals are very high ...

FAISALABAD - A poverty-stricken man set himself ablaze on failure to purchase breakfast for his children here on Monday. His wife and two daughters also sustained burns during attempt to save him. Shaukat Maseeh, a resident of Chak 8/JB Sargodha Road had been jobless since long and was facing ...

FAISALABAD - A poverty-stricken man set himself ablaze on failure to purchase breakfast for his children here on Monday. His wife and two daughters also sustained burns during attempt to save him. Shaukat Maseeh, a resident of Chak 8/JB Sargodha Road had been jobless since long and was facing ...

MIRPURKHAS  - An unemployed man strangulated his wife and four children over domestic disputes and poverty here on Friday.According to police, accused Khushi Muhammad Lashari hailing from village Jhalori district Mirpurkhas of Sindh was mentally upset due to domestic disputes and poverty.On ...

Poverty hit man committed suicide over domestic issues here in Lahore late Wednesday night. According to details, Ghulam Fareed, 26, hailing from Mughalpura who was facing problems to feed his family due to poverty attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself with pistol injuring him critically. ...

KARACHI  - Dr Fehmida Mirza, Speaker, National Assembly will inaugurate the symposium being organised on the eve of Organ Donation Day at Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) on Saturday.The daylong programme being organised by Transplantation Society of Pakistan (TSP) in ...

KASUR - Two minor children drowned while their mother and sister were saved by locals. A woman attempted to committee suicide by plunging in BS- Link Canal at Chunian.One Bushra Bibi of Hujra Shah Moqeem, District Okara, had come to the house of her in laws in village Kando Khara. A day before her ...

FAISALABAD - German scientists have stressed the need for developing scientific research with a special focus on unprivileged class so as to alleviate poverty from across the world. Dr Bernhard Tischbein and Dr Christopher Conard met with University of Agriculture, Faisalabad Vice Chancellor Prof ...

ISLAMABAD  – Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday called for allocating more funds for women development programmes terming it imperative for poverty eradication.President PEW, Dr. Murtaza Mughal addressing a Spring Festival of business women, said empowered women play vital role for ...

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI  - Bashiran Bibi and her husband fought everyday because money was too tight. Their hungry children’s screams tormented her. She began begging in the streets. But that didn’t help.So the maid, 25, decided there was only one way to deal with crushing poverty. She ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that knowledge is a wealth which cannot be stolen or robbed. He said education is the key to elimination of poverty, unemployment, terrorism and extremism for putting the country on the road to progress and prosperity and transforming it in ...

FAISALABAD - As many as 6 million families are living in extreme poverty which can be alleviated through the promotion of technical education in the country, the Benazir Income Support Programme ( Special Initiative) director general said.Jahangir Alim Chohan was inaugurating the Skill Development ...

LAHORE – A father of four committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan at his residential apartment situated in Wahdat Colony area, police said on Saturday. The widow told the police that Muhammad Imran, 40, had been facing worst financial constraints for the last several months. ...

Just when we think that things can’t get any worse, they just might. I wonder how many of us who wished our friends a happy, peaceful and prosperous New Year infused that message with any real confidence. The reality is that most of the world is in a mess; sadly, created by mankind’s ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that poverty and unemployment can be eliminated by improving livestock sector and government is implementing a comprehensive strategy for this purpose. He said that such initiatives are being taken for the improvement of this sector, says ...

Our Staff Reporter SARGODHA - Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay Maqami-Hakumat (JPJM) Chairman and former National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) chairman Daniyal Aziz has stated that people are dying with hunger and compelled to sale their children owing to abject and unprecedented poverty. People are finding ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Electricity demand is increasing in Pakistan with every passing day and likely to double by 2030, if left unchecked, the lack of energy may reverse all government efforts aimed at poverty reduction. In a statement issued here Thursday, former Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the government has charted out a five-pronged strategy to address poverty alleviation through cash support and skill development, good governance, energy sector reforms, political pluralism and national ownership of Pakistans security ...

RAMI G KHOURI Six Arab countries today - Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Palestine - are engaged in intense domestic negotiations or confrontational dynamics that may determine, in some cases, whether they remain intact or devolve into new forms of decentralised sovereignty or even ...