THIS refers to the problem the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) qualified people are facing these days in Pakistan...
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) gives equivalence to an ACCA qualified person with MComThere is no problem, but it seems by choosing this qualification we committed a sin...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan ranks at 113 out of 124 countries in the ‘Human Capital Index’ because of its poor performance on educational outcomes, says the Human Capital Report 2015 issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF)...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is among the world’s 38 per cent countries which are facing a ‘talent crisis’, thus falling short of fully realising people’s economic potential at all stages of economic development largely due to unemployment and ineffective deployment of skills throughout the workforce...
The ‘Human Capital Report 2017’ released by the Davos-based World Economic Forum (WEF) says these failures to translate investment in...
Pakistan began celebrating its landmark 70th Independence anniversary on Monday with commemorative ceremonies held in cities across the country...
The day began with a 31-gun salute in the federal capital along with a 21-gun salute in each provincial capital...
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministers of both Pakistan and India made critical remarks apparently aimed at each other’s governments on the second day of a Saarc conference here on Thursday, as tensions between the two neighbouring countries run high in the aftermath of weeks-long violence in India-held Kashmir...
“There are no good terrorists or bad terrorists,” said Rajnath Singh in his address, referring to earlier criticism the Indian...
Pakistan has consistently failed to recognize sports...
The execution of a mega-sporting event helps in developing infrastructure, generates employment, secure inflow of foreign capital and thus contributes significantly to the economic development of a country...
ISLAMABAD: Tahir Mehmood, a resident of Sector I-10 is among thousands of residents of the federal capital, facing water shortages since the summer hit its peak...
Although this year the capital and adjoining areas received ample rain, raising water levels in reservoirs which supply water to residential areas, residents continued to face shortages...
Pakistan Day was celebrated on Thursday across the country with national zeal and fervour...
The nation commenced celebrations for Pakistan Day with a pledge to make the country stronger by wiping out the menace of terrorism, achieving sustainable economic growth and political stability...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday joined the international community in expressing its strong opposition and condemnation of the US decision to recognise the occupied city of Al Quds Al Sharif / Jerusalem as the so-called capital of Israel and the plan to relocate the American embassy there...
Pakistan shares the international outrage and is deeply concerned over the implications of this decision for international peace and security,...
A military parade to mark Pakistan Day is being held at Shakarparian in Islamabad as the nation celebrates the day with zeal and fervour on Friday...
Pakistan Day commemorates the passing of the Lahore Resolution on March 23, 1940, when the All-India Muslim League demanded a separate nation for the Muslims of the British Indian Empire...
Billboards and banners felicitating Pakistan on its 72nd independence day have been put up across Tehran, the capital of Iran, Radio Pakistan reported...
com, congratulates Pakistan on its independence anniversary and depict historical landmarks from the four provinces...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said Pakistan is sitting on hundreds of billions of "dead capital" in the form of state land and rest houses and official residences built on that land...
KARACHI: Corps Commander Karachi Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar said Saturday that the Karachi operation is completely apolitical, adding that it will continue without any discrimination...
Speaking at a seminar organised by the National Defence University at a private hotel in Karachi, the corps commander said, "I assure citizens that our struggle against terrorism will continue unabated...
In absence of any structured attempts to establish such places in Karachi, the chai hangouts in the city have contributed to a new vibrancy, absent for more than a generation...
IN his debut novel Karachi Raj, erstwhile critic Anis Shivani depicts a year’s worth of Karachi life as viewed from the differing perspectives of an American anthropologist and a couple of individuals living in the low-income district of the Basti...
Shivani’s first foray into the realm of fiction intrinsically grapples with an immensely complex topic — the stratified social layers of which Karachi life is composed...