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Creating the right kind of jobs should be the priority for Pakistan

In an evolving world of work— the rapid creation and destruction of jobs— the issue of unemployment has acquired centrality in the development process and has led to the question of whether jobs, or workers, should be protected?Looking from an egalitarian perspective, the welfare of millions revolves around four things: full employment (including self-employment), fair wages, reasonable prices and an accelerated programme for community...

‘Tourism makes for 2.9pc GDP, creates 1.4 million jobs in Pakistan’

ISLAMABAD: Tourism is already a key sector in Pakistan, makes for 2...

4 million jobs, but this is far below Pakistan’s potential, said World Bank Country Director Anthony Cholst on Monday...

Pakistan needs to create more jobs: WB

ISLAMABAD: The country’s economy needs to create more jobs by taking advantage of the large influx of a well-educated young labour force, says a new research by the World Bank...

One of the key findings is that there are insufficient jobs where bachelor and graduate degree holders are expected to use their acquired skills...

Pakistan's younger women riding a digital wave in drive for better jobs

When Kainat Naz joined a women-friendly technology boot camp a year ago, she had no idea it would completely change her life and her views on how women can work in conservative Pakistan...

So she signed up for a tech programme called TechKaro, an initiative by Circle — a social enterprise that aims to improve women’s economic rights in Pakistan — and is now working full-time for a software company...

Pakistan’s drug regulatory authority not recognised by WHO

ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap), responsible for monitoring the quality of medicines in the country, is not recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and resultantly Pakistani companies are unable to export to developed countries...

The authority is responsible for ensuring the quality of drugs all over the country; moreover it is mandated to ensure the availability of medicines at affordable...

Naya Pakistan housing authority ordinance to be presented in NA today

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has recently promulgated three ordinances for promotion of housing schemes in the country and one about establishment of Naya Pakistan Housing Authority (NPHA) will be laid before the National Assembly on Monday (today)...

According to the agenda of the lower house, Minister for Housing and Works Tariq Basher Cheema will lay the Naya Pakistan Housing Authority Ordinance, 2019, before the lower house...

Trade Development Authority of Pakistan being reformed to boost exports

ISLAMABAD: The government is introducing reforms in the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to make it relevant to the country’s changing export base that has witnessed drastic changes over time...

It was focused on specialisation of division at the authority and was attended by senior officers of TDAP and the Ministry of Commerce (MoC)...

Naya Pakistan authority seeks to develop part of Blue Area in joint venture with CDA

ISLAMABAD: The Naya Pakistan Housing and Development Authority (NAPHDA) is looking to develop a part of Blue Area on a public-public partnership model with the Capital Development Authority (CDA)...

The authority depends on its land bank to generate funds to meet its development and non-development expenses...

Sharif Al Mujahid: Authority on Pakistan movement

SHARIF AL MUJAHID, who died at his home in Karachi on Monday morning after a long illness, was one of South Asia’s most prolific writers on the history of the freedom movement, the most-quoted Pakistani scholar abroad, and undeniably an authority on Mohammad Ali Jinnah...

When he established the Quaid-i-Azam Academy in 1976, and moved from the university campus to the time-worn barracks of Pakistan Secretariat where it was housed,...

Taliban have no authority to decide cases in Pakistan: SC

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has held that the Taliban had no legal authority to decide cases and their decision was not applicable to Pakistan, which was a sovereign country, the applicable law of which applied to every inch of its territory...

The attempt by the petitioners to alternatively categorise the purported decision as an agreement was also not permissible because it undermined the sovereignty of Pakistan, Justice Isa...

Representative organisations of media industry reject Pakistan Media Deve­lopment Authority

KARACHI: All representative organisations and associations of media in-dustry — the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA), Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and Association of Electronic Media Editors and News Dir­ec­­t­­o­rs (AEMEND) — have rejected the proposed Pakistan Media Deve­lopment Authority (PMDA) and termed the law behind it a...

Media bodies assail attempt to establish Pakistan Media Development Authority

KARACHI: A joint committee of media organisations in the country has unanimously rejected the government’s attempt to establish the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA)...

The committee comprises the Council of Pakistan News­paper Editors (CPNE), All Pakistan Newspapers Socie­­ty, Pakistan Broadcasters Association, Pakistan Fed­eral Union of Journalists and Association of Electronic Media Editors and News Directors...

Cabinet may approve draft bill to set up Pakistan Media Development Authority today

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet is set to take up and approve on Tuesday (today) the draft bill for establishment of the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA), sources in the government told Dawn...

The controversial bill has been strongly opposed by the owners of media houses and workers, but the information ministry has repeatedly expressed its resolve to establish the new authority...

Rules for Pakistan Halal Authority approved

ISLAMABAD: After a delay of almost five years, the federal cabinet has finally approved operational rules for Pakistan Halal Authority (PHA)...

The mandate of the authority is to promote trade and commerce in ‘Halal’ food items, stamping halal status of the edible and certain non-edible products...

Pakistan countering ‘West-backed’ Indian military build-up: National Command Authority aide

GILGIT: Adviser National Command Authority retired Lt Gen Mazhar Jamil said on Tuesday that Western support to India was allowing it to build its conventional and nuclear arsenals, and that Pakistan had no choice but to take countermeasures against Indian attempts to create an imbalance in the region and launch a military misadventure...

Lt Gen Jamil said that Pakistan wants peace, internally and externally...