RAMAZAN of 1947 also fell in the long and thirsty days of the subcontinental summer...
What was the thought behind the founder’s hope of a nation being worthy of its history and what precisely was the “Muslim genius” he hoped would meet the challenge of building the nation to which a country had just been granted?The Quaid himself would be gone long before he had the opportunity to know the answers or to suggest better meanings... ...
The Ramazan of 1947 was also hot and humid...
Shouldn’t be we ashamed that even after 68 years of independence we are unable to provide electricity and water to our people? Shouldn’t we be ashamed that more than half of our population has no access to potable water and sanitation? Shouldn’t we be ashamed that millions of our children don’t go to schools and most of the schools in rural areas are without teachers, roofs, furniture,...
For the first time in the history of Pakistan, the country's transgender community will be included in the national population census...
Pakistan's sixth population census will begin on March 15, 2017...
CUPERTINO: Apple Inc on Tuesday rolled out its much-anticipated iPhone X, a redesigned product of glass and stainless steel with an edge-to-edge display that Chief Executive Tim Cook called “the biggest leap forward since the original iPhone...
“It’s great to have a product but we’d have liked it sooner rather than later, more like the beginning of October or mid-October,” said Kim Forrest, senior equity research analyst at Fort Pitt...
Research participants rated red wine as tasting better (5...
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ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday defined liquefied natural gas (LNG) as petroleum product, instead of natural gas, just to bypass the legal requirement of public hearing by the regulator for its pricing...
“According to the new arrangement RLNG will be treated as a petroleum product and its pricing can be carried out in line with the prevailing practice for petrol/diesel pricing on monthly basis,” said an official statement on...
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has approved a new micro-insurance product aimed at providing hospitalisation coverage to low-income clients of a microfinance institution...
The approval of the product — named ‘First Sehat Tahaffuz Plan’ — under the SECP Micro-insurance Rules 2014 was in line with the objectives of the National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) recently adopted by the federal...
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to keep prices of all petroleum products unchanged for June, in order to ensure price stability during Ramazan, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said...
“In line with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s policy of providing maximum relief to the people, it has been decided that prices of petroleum products will not be increased on June 1,” Mr Dar said
He said the free economic zone would be spread over 924 hectares (2,281 acres) near an additional 60-acre tract adjacent to the Gwadar Port Terminal where the COPHC would construct a world-class product display centre...
As the combined efforts of the fiscal and monetary authorities are focused on documenting the economy, central bankers say diversifying the product base of national savings is the need of the hour...
Whether the CDNS’s plan to experiment with retail Ijarah Sukuk as a product of national savings gets through or not, analysts say the need for restructuring the NSS portfolio cannot be ignored...
I would encourage whoever can head to Dubai or Sharjah to be a part of this ‘Made in Pakistan’ product that we can all be proud of and rally behind...
French baby-milk maker Lactalis and health authorities have ordered a major international product recall because of fears of salmonella contamination following 26 cases of children falling sick in France...
The baby milk industry was shaken by a huge scare in China in 2008 when local manufacturers were found to be bulking their product with an industrial chemical...
KARACHI: Legal wrangling over the fixing of fresh milk’s price appeared to take a final turn on Tuesday when the Sindh High Court directed the city commissioner to notify dairy products’ prices within 10 days as the retailers asked the court to set the price of the daily-use commodity at Rs98 per litre...
Directing the Karachi commissioner to issue a fresh notification of dairy product prices within 10 days, the court put off the...
KARACHI: A consumer court on Saturday imposed fines on a leading online retailer for providing a faulty product to a customer...
The court also asked the online retailer to replace the product in question with a good and useful one or alternatively return the amount (Rs7,795) paid against the purchase of the produce by the claimant and improve its services with regard to reasonable standards as per expectation of consumers...
Watchdogs in the United States and Europe stipulate that a product must be tested in a regulator-approved lab to prove it can be effective against 99...