KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is mulling to allow manufacturers of knitwear garments to import raw materials under the Duty and Tax Remission on Export (DTRE) scheme...
It was mentioned that Pakistan started its textile industry from spinning sector which still requires huge investments...
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has amended and renamed its Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners — the Nelson Mandela Rules, a UN press statement said on Wednesday...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the adoption of NM rules as “a great step forward” but also drew attention to three areas that could be strengthened from a human rights perspective...
LAHORE: Despite the fact the government has already earmarked a vast area comprising over 2,000 kanals in the central business district -- Gulberg, Ferozepur Road and Walton Road – for the construction of high-rises, to encourage vertical growth of the city, some bigwigs in the Punjab government seem desperate to revise the Government Area Housing Scheme (GAHS)-2006 (amended) and relax rules to allow construction of a 30-storey...
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday ruled that Dua Zehra — a Karachi girl who was reported kidnapped in April and later discovered to have purportedly ‘eloped’ in Punjab — could not be permitted to be on her own in Lahore till the case was disposed of...
The court also ruled that police were empowered to move Dua from Lahore to Karachi to attend proceedings at trial court...
Depicting Lahore in images is an old practice and its early patterns could be found in the miniature paintings of the Mughal era...
Lahore, being the cultural hub, played a vital role in the arts, literature and culture in the mid-20th century; especially, visual art was inspired by the rich panoramic beauty of the walled city and life around its 13 gates, so an exclusive genre of cityscape came into existence, as early as the...
WASHINGTON: The United States has ruled out mediating between Pakistan and Afghanistan, saying that it wants the neighbouring countries to work through their differences bilaterally...
At a Thursday afternoon news briefing, State Department spokesman John Kirby said that Pakistan and Afghanistan were quite capable of doing so because they had resolved their differences in the past as well...
This is the conclusion of a report by a prestigious Washington think-tank, the Atlantic Council, which also rules out the possibility of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan...
The experts argued that China, India and Pakistan, despite being enmeshed in a complex rivalry, “are stakeholders in the existing international order, and are committed to an open economic order and multilateral institutionalism”...
WASHINGTON: Pakistan ruled out sharing its nuclear weapons with Saudi Arabia, insisting Thursday that the atomic arsenal would continue serving solely for the country's national defence even as world powers and Iran near a possible nuclear agreement...
Pakistan has long been among the world's greatest proliferation threats, having shared weapons technology with Iran, Libya and North Korea...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday ruled out any nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, saying that it supported objectives of non-proliferation as well as nuclear safety and security...
“As a responsible nuclear state, Pakistan is fully aware of its responsibilities...
KARACHI: The World Trade Organisation (WTO) said on July 6 that the measures adopted by the European Commission against the import of Pakistan’s polyethylene terephthalate (PET) — a chemical used in manufacturing mineral water bottles — violated the rules of the global trade body...
The European Commission imposed a five per cent countervailing duty in 2010 on the import of PET from Pakistan in order to protect European producers... ...
Indian Sports Minister Vijay Goel on Monday reaffirmed India's stance concerning a bilateral cricket series with Pakistan...
"India and Pakistan can't play a bilateral series till the terror from Pakistan remains," Times of India quoted Goel as saying...
ABU DHABI: Pakistan suffered a blow before the first Test against England when team officials Sunday ruled out key batsman Azhar Ali because of an infected foot...
Since making his debut against Australia at Lord's in Pakistan's neutral-venue Test in 2010, Ali has featured in 44 Tests and scored 3,393 runs...
ISLAMABAD: At a time when each province is bargaining to secure a larger share in the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Director-General Roberto Azevedo has cautioned that Pakistan can only reap benefits from the physical infrastructure by enacting efficient business-friendly rules, regulations and procedures at the borders...
“It does not help to have the physical infrastructure if...
Was the 1999 World Cup squad Pakistan's best ever?While the question may be open to debate, it seems Australian great Shane Warne has made his mind up for 9 out of 11 players in his 'best Pakistan squad over the last 25 years' are from Wasim Akram's 1999 squad...
Nine out of 11 players from Pakistan's 1999 World Cup side made the cut in Warne's team...
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry on Sunday ruled out the possibility of self-styled terrorist outfit Islamic State’s presence in Pakistan, Radio Pakistan reported...
In an interview, Chaudhry said no one in Pakistan will be allowed to have links with Daesh – Arabic acronym for the Islamic State (IS)...