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  • Child labour increases in Pakistan while numbers drop internationally

    KARACHI: Pakistan ranks number three in the world with the highest prevalence of child and forced labour despite a significant decline in the number of child labourers recorded worldwide, it emerged at a seminar on Friday...

    Titled ‘Elimination of child labour in Pakistan’, the seminar was organised by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) at the Sindh Boys Scouts Association’s headquarters...

  • Pakistan’s victory at Lord’s in numbers

    After a dramatic day four of the first Test against England, Misbah-ul-Haq-led Pakistan won their first Test in two decades at the iconic Lord’s Cricket Ground...

    Due to their phenomenal performances during the match, Pakistan’s Test skipper Misbah-ul-Haq and Yasir Shah made it to the honours board with the latter being named the Man-of-the-Match...

  • The numbers game: State of sports marketing in Pakistan, India

    KOLKATA: Pakistan has trailed its eastern neighbour in corporatising sports and roping in sponsors, says a top sports marketer in the country who blames its various federations and the government in equal measure for this...

    “Sponsorship in sports is still a far cry in Pakistan,” rues Naveed Haider Khan, marketing consultant to Pakistan Football Federation (PFF), which has had some success in hosting foreign teams in recent times... ...

  • Where does SME financing stand in Pakistan? Here are the numbers

    Any discussion on the lack of corporatisation in Pakistan finds its way to the lack of avenues of capital for entrepreneurs...

    Considering the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to Pakistan’s GDP — around 40 per cent — and their share in non-agriculture labour force at over 80pc, it’s not a segment that can be continuously ignored if broad-based development is desired...

  • Golden opportunity for Pakistan to win Test and series: Sallu

    KARACHI: “Our batsmen and bowlers have put Pakistan in the driving seat in Dhaka and this is a golden opportunity for our team to win the Test by an innings and clinch the series...

    Praising the entire team’s efforts in propelling Pakistan to the driving seat, Sallu said both Younis Khan and Azhar Ali batted superbly to lay the foundations for a huge total...

  • Golden Jubilee: Defence Day celebrated across Pakistan

    Celebrations of Pakistan's 50th Defence Day are under way across the nation on Sunday as the day commenced with a 31-gun salute in the federal capital and 21-gun salutes in provincial capitals, Radio Pakistan reported...

    President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the golden jubilee of Defence Day paid tribute to all those who laid down their lives and lost loved ones in the 1965 and 1971 wars and in the ongoing war...

  • Golden Chick set to enter Pakistan

    KARACHI: A central Texas-based US fried chicken chain is all set to enter Pakistan...

    The Golden Chick Restaurant — Chicken Tender-Fried Chicken will initially open three restaurants this year and aims to raise the number to 30 joints in subsequent years...

  • Record numbers of migrants enter Hungary

    RVSZKE (Hungary): Europe was increasingly divided over its refugee crisis on Thursday as record numbers of migrants streamed through the Balkans into Hungary, forcing Austria to suspend cross-border train services...

    Many have endured treacherous sea journeys across the Mediterranean --- most fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Afghanistan or Pakistan and hoping to reach Germany...

  • The weight of numbers

    In other words, we, generally, love to enthusiastically boast about inflated numbers on the pattern of how the more insecure amongst us like to drop names...

    Amidst all the numbers that these animals bring to the grand exhibition in the city, there is every now and then a reminder of how the spirit quite abhors ostentation and too much discussion about the price...

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