FAISALABADPakistan will have to feed more than 200 million people in 2015 and wheat demand by the time is expected to go up to 29.06 million tonnes.This was stated by University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) Vice Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad while addressing a reception held here in honour of newly ...

FAISALABAD - Pakistan will have to feed more than 200 million people in 2015 and wheat demand by the time is expected to go up to 29.06 million tonnes.This was stated by University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) VC Dr Iqrar Ahmad while addressing a reception held here in honour of newly elected ...

quetta - Frontier Corps Balochistan seized 1.8 tonnes of opium from Turbat district, south-west of Quetta on Friday. The official spokesman of Frontier Corps Balochistan Murtaza Baig told this scribe that a suspected vehicle was spotted moving towards Iranian border in the darkness in the ...

Kazakhstan has announced that it will supply 2100 tonnes of uranium to India's nuclear plants by 2014. Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev made the announcement after talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Astana in Kazakhstan, PTI reported. Singh said that India intended to ...

Pakistan plans to import another 375,000 tonnes of white sugar in August/September to meet shortages in the country, Pakistans state-run trading agency (TCP) said. The agency has already bought 825,000 tonnes of sugar after the government set an import target of 1.2 million tonnes for TCP this ...

At least 6,000 kg of drug-making chemicals and 4.5 tonnes of cocaine have been seized from eight laboratories near the Venezuela-Colombia border, officials said. "This has been one of the biggest operations in recent years," Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami said Thursday. The drugs belonged to ...

The state-run Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has reissued a tender to export 25,000 tonnes of super basmati rice from the 2008/09 crop, a TCP spokesman said on Friday. The TCP has asked foreign buyers to submit bids by Jan. 21 which will be opened the same day. Bids have been invited for ...

The Trading Corporation of Pakistan decided to sell imported 25000 tonnes of sugar to create stability in sugar prices in the local markets, Geo News reported Friday. According to TCP spokesman Khizr Hayat, on the directives from Economic Coordination Committee, the TCP will sell 25000 tonnes of ...

Pakistan has cancelled a tender to import 50,000 tonnes of white sugar, an official of the state-owned Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) and an industry official said on Monday. The tender, issued on April 30, was to have closed last Saturday but was cancelled on Friday, said the TCP official. ...

Three tonnes of cocaine were seized by authorities on Panama's Caribbean coast and two more were discovered in a house in southern Mexico, officials from the two countries said Wednesday. Panamanian police said a patrol found 122 bags stuffed with 3,027 one-kilogram (2.2-pound) bricks of cocaine ...