ISLAMABAD: Pakistan must speed up reform of the energy sector and bring more women into the labour force if it wants to quicken economic growth that lags far behind regional peers, the World Bank’s country representative said on Monday...
The World Bank expects Pakistan’s economy to expand by 4...
A global report published by OpenSignal has stated Pakistan as having an overall average connectivity of 3G and 4G networks at 3...
In the report, OpenSignal, a wireless network mapping company, outlines the mobile data performance of 95 different countries, including Pakistan...
NEW DELHI: India will accelerate its building of new hydro-power plants along three rivers that flow into Pakistan, a source familiar with the plan said on Monday, in a move likely to aggravate already tense relations with its neighbour a week after an attack on an Indian army base...
The dispute looks set to be reignited after Prime Minister Narendra Modi told officials on Monday that India should use more of the rivers' resources,...
KARACHI: It is the quality of the fast bowlers at the HBL Pakistan Super League, which has stood out for former Australia all-rounder James Faulkner, who believes the tournament is “right up there” with its Indian counterpart...
The 31-year-old, who plays for Quetta Gladiators, is impressed with the likes of Pakistan pace spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf and Nasim Shah among other factors that make the tournament special... ...
ISLAMABAD: The government is facing internal pressure for taking a series of aggressive steps for ratcheting up the pace of implementation of National Action Plan (NAP) on countering-terrorism and extremism...
Almost 13 months after NAP was initiated in the aftermath of Army Public School tragedy of Dec 2014, the government continues to be pilloried for not doing enough to execute the 20-point National Action Plan
Afghanistan's foreign minister asked India on Monday to expedite development of a strategic port in Iran to bolster a trade route for land-locked Central Asian countries that would bypass Pakistan...
Pakistan currently does not allow India to transport through its territory to Afghanistan...
DUBAI: A purge of Saudi Arabia’s political and business elites briefly dragged down the kingdom’s stock market on Sunday but prices recovered to close higher as some investors bet the crackdown could bolster reforms in the long run...
The size of the purge raised questions about the stability and predictability of the Saudi government
TOKYO: Japan’s state-of-the-art maglev train clocked a new world speed record on Tuesday in a test run near Mount Fuji, smashing through the 600 kilometre per hour mark, as Tokyo races to sell the technology abroad...
The seven-car maglev train — short for “magnetic levitation” — hit a top speed of 603 kilometres an hour, and managed nearly 11 seconds at over 600kph, operator Central Japan Railway said...
NEW DELHI: India’s finance ministry, seeking to speed up deals with outside investors, is set to take full control of the oversight of more than $40 billion a year in foreign direct investments and share purchases, two government sources said...
It has promised, for example, to speed up regulatory clearances across the board...
”Capt Safdar, who is the PM’s son-in-law, “asked the concerned authorities to speed up the construction of the expressway by working day and night as the PM himself was monitoring progress on the project...
MOST political parties in India, except the left, are generally agreed on the need to sell off at least minority stake in public sector undertakings to raise funds for social sector projects and to build infrastructure in the country...
Yet, despite this broad consensus, successive governments at the centre have been struggling over the past 15 years to divest government stake in public sector undertakings(PSUs)
ISLAMABAD: Warning that time is running out for delimitation, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) urged the government on Thursday to speed up the process aimed at amending the law allowing demarcation of constituencies on the basis of provisional census results...
Each delimitation committee immediately after its constitution will proceed to obtain population data of last census officially published along with relevant maps...
While some reported that Nawaz, unhappy with the thin crowds at Rawalpindi and outskirts, picked up speed to reach places where a greater number of party workers were awaiting to welcome him, others suggested that security threats forced Nawaz to move ahead of his rally...
SOFIA: Couples lining up to face each other are given 30 seconds to chat before moving on _ in a version of speed dating that, rather than sparking romance, aims to promote understanding and integration for new immigrants...
Coupled with capacity building of tax authorities, the State Bank of Pakistan has suggested that ‘introduction of incentives, such as reinvestment of tax receipts for improvement of infrastructural development, may help raise substantial revenue from the sector’...