Former Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Syed Munawar Hasan passed away on Friday at a hospital in Karachi where he was under treatment for the past few days...
Elected emir in 2009 with around 70pc votes for the first term, Munawar Hasan started losing his popularity within the party after JI’s poor showing in the 2013 general elections...
In the small suburban town of Rodala, located in Jaranwala, Faisalabad, there sits a cobbler in the main bazaar, Munawar Shakeel, who has been repairing the shoes of the villagers for three decades now...
Munawar is a poet...
Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has ratcheted up the heat on US e-commerce giants like Amazon and Walmart, accusing them of arrogance and of flouting local laws by indulging in predatory pricing practices...
"A number of these large e-commerce companies have come into India and very blatantly flouted the laws of the land in more ways than one," he told a virtual event late on Saturday...
Speaking at the National Press Club (NPC) in Islamabad on Tuesday, Zaheer Abbas, who was representing the Punjab Sports Board, said an academy would also be established in Karachi for women cricketers...
“Yesterday I inaugurated an academy in Rawalpindi and more academies will also be set up in Lahore, Sialkot and Multan,” he said...
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan inaugurated High-Performance Centre (HPC) in Karachi on Thursday, named after cricketer Hanif Mohammad...
It is the first facility of its sort in Karachi that will cater to cricketers and trainers, not only from the metropolis but also the surrounding areas...
LAHORE: Rejecting the proposed merger of Textile Division into the Commerce Division, Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (Prgmea) on Monday demanded the appointment of a textile minister immediately...
KARACHI: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced the results of commerce part-II (private) and home economics part-I on Tuesday...
The visiting US commerce secretary told China's premier on Monday that the warm reception he received in Beijing “augurs very well” for Donald Trump's upcoming visit, amid tensions over trade and North Korea...
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross met with Premier Li Keqiang at the headquarters of Communist Party leaders ahead of the US president's trip to China, which is expected to take place in November...
The newly-appointed Commerce Minister, Pervaiz Malik, finds himself hamstrung by the daunting task of re-framing the policy...
“Until next election in 2018, I may not be able to bring structural changes in the time remaining” the new commerce minister told Dawn...
Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma said on Tuesday the internet should be a utility available to the whole world, putting his weight behind a call for e-commerce by United Nations to boost developing economies and help fight poverty...
Ma, who advises the United Nations trade and development agency UNCTAD on small business and young entrepreneurs, was the star attraction at a conference on e-commerce for development...
With 100 million new internet users every year, Amazon is betting big on India, but a major new investment in homegrown rival Flipkart means the battle to dominate the fast-growing e-commerce market is set to heat up...
The 10-year-old e-commerce company needs all the help it can get to compete with Amazon after the Seattle-based giant made India's 1...
HANGZHOU: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that as a firm believer in political empowerment of people through economic development, he would encourage e-commerce in Pakistan as a tool to help small businesses go global...
Addressing the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the setting up of an e-platform in Pakistan by China’s largest e-commerce portal Alibaba, he said the initiative would help create...
Domestic commerce, according to current official data, contributes 32pc towards the GDP and employs 20pc of the labour force...
However, the domestic commerce sector is continuously ignored by the government and multilateral development agencies...
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday met Michael Evans, president of China’s Alibaba Group, to discuss opportunities for the introduction of the global e-commerce giant to Pakistan, Chinese media reported...
Evans said he was confident Alibaba would fuel a "significant stimulus for growth of small and medium enterprises in Pakistan", adding that advancements in the field of information technology and telecommunication in the...
BEIJING: China will allow full foreign ownership of some e-commerce businesses, aiming to encourage foreign investment and the development and competitiveness of the industry, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Friday...
It was not immediately clear how this would affect e-commerce companies already operating in China...