PESHAWAR: The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation will support research on climatic change and its impact on farming community to improve agricultural productivity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
Appreciative of university’s effort to achieve progress within a short span of time and exploring solutions for poor farmers, she said SDC wanted extension of cooperation in the area of climatic research...
HYDERABAD: This year’s crop of sindhri — top of the line among all mango varieties — is faced with multiple issues ranging from pest attacks to climatic conditions, which didn’t go down well with the growers...
While having grappled with rough climatic conditions at farm, he faces another dilemma — damages to close to a dozen mango-laden trees due to gas well cleaning exercise by OGDC...
ISLAMABAD: Significant administrative changes have been made to the limits of the Islamabad police zones and circles (subdivisions)...
According to the officials, the chief commissioner Islamabad in response to a proposal sent from the office of the inspector general of police issued a notification changing the limits of the police circles and zones...
ISLAMABAD: While Pakistan is yet to form a group of experts to decide setting up of the exact number and types of special economic zones (SEZs) along the CPEC route in the first phase, China has notified the government of forming the group...
It had been decided that the two countries would set up expert groups to deliberate how to build the priority zones...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday offered to allocate space in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for Sri Lankan investors to promote bilateral trade between the two countries...
The minister assured PM Wickramasinghe that Pakistan was ready to allocate space to the Sri Lankan investors and this would entitle them to all concessions and exemptions accorded to these zones...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Belarus on Tuesday signed a roadmap for bilateral cooperation and decided to establish special economic zones...
Vovk announced that Belarusian Prime Minister Andrei Kabyakov will visit Islamabad in November this year...
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) on Monday declared the Pakistan Monument and the Lok Virsa Complex ‘tobacco smoke-free zones’...
”Ministry’s decision brings number of no-smoking public places in capital to 214While discussing the burden of tobacco use, the minister said Pakistan is among fifteen countries in the world with a heavy burden of tobacco-related ill health...
WASHINGTON: A bipartisan bill will soon be introduced in the US Senate to set up duty-free export zones along the Pak-Afghan border, says a senior US lawmaker...
The proposed legislation will allow these trade pockets, known as the Reconstruction Opportunity Zones or ROZs, to export certain duty-free goods to the United States, said Senator Van Hollen, a key Democrat on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations...
ISLAMABAD: Amid some roadblocks on long-term plan (LTP), the Pakistan-China Senior Officials Meeting on Monday decided to formally move towards financing at least three special economic/industrial zones (SEZs) and some important rail, electricity and road projects in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)...
A senior government official told Dawn that Pakistan was not ready to allow Chinese yuan (renminbi) for free use in Gwadar...
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to start construction work at Gwadar Port by March 2018, and contrary to earlier reports in the media, has agreed that Chinese and Pakistani investors will get an equal opportunity to invest in economic zones that will be established along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)...
The media reports had suggested that only Chinese investors would be accommodated in the economic zones and...
KARACHI: As part of a series of live conversations with some of the biggest and brightest figures in Pakistan, DawnTalks hosted its third conversation with Pakistan’s only Oscar winner, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, on Monday...
As a documentary film-maker, Ms Obaid-Chinoy has worked in active conflict zones such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, East Timor, etc...
PESHAWAR: A high-level meeting of police officers on Thursday reviewed the security issues concerning the local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and decided to create security zones outside each polling station at a distance of 100-200 yards to restrict the movement of irrelevant persons and vehicles...
Keeping a standardised track of attacks on health facilities and workers has been a major challenge in conflict zones...
The tool, which is also designed to identify attacks on ambulances and patients, is already being deployed in Jordan and Pakistan, and the WHO plans to roll it out in Iraq and Yemen...
Fighting eased in Syria on Saturday after a deal signed by government backers Russia and Iran and militant supporter Turkey to create four “de-escalation zones” began to take effect...
It provides for a ceasefire, rapid deliveries of humanitarian aid and the return of refugees after the creation of “de-escalation zones” across stretches of eight Syrian provinces...
NICOSIA: An international convention targeting the illicit trade in cultural artefacts took effect on Friday, a move to curb what is regarded as a major source of funding to militant groups in conflict zones...