ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank says that Pakistan’s economy has failed to achieve its growth potential in spite of benefiting from lower prices of oil which accounts for almost a third of its imports...
The ADB approved $1 billion for projects in Pakistan to improve transport and trade...
But even if Diamer-Bhasha reaches its funding goal, then what?The court summoned yesterday the CEOs of all bottled water companies to present data on the price of extracted water and the revenue they have made selling it...
We can question whether major bottlers are cartelised, and whether quality audits are functioning well, but let’s think here instead about what the price of water should be...
LONDON: Every World Cup failure for Pakistan sparks a wave of reviews and sackings and the promise of a fresh approach — until the team wins again and all is forgotten...
Pakistan won four straight matches to finish level on 11 points with New Zealand, but they bowed out of the tournament due to an inferior net run-rate...
Question is, would we like to see it again, in Pakistan’s first-ever animated venture, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Waadi Animations’ 3 Bahadur?For anybody who loves a good, well-told story, the answer would have to be yes, the crowd that gathered for the film's Karachi premiere seemed to agree...
Pakistan’s first-ever venture into animation can’t, and doesn't, compare...
WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday kept China and India on its Priority Watch List of trading partners that fail to protect intellectual property rights (IPR), hurting the economy...
In its annual Special 301 Report, the Commerce Department's US Trade Representative said there were now 13 trading partners on its Priority Watch List, three more than its previous report...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday asked Pakistan to urgently investigate the mysterious disappearances of at least four activists who campaigned for human rights and religious freedom, saying their near simultaneous disappearances raised concerns of government involvement...
Pakistan is routinely ranked among the world's most dangerous countries for journalists...
CONGRESS politician and peace activist Mani Shankar Aiyer is being branded by Prime Minister Modi’s ruling cabal as an anti-India conspirator working with Pakistan to depose the BJP government in Gujarat, and to instal a Muslim chief minister there...
It is the robust and resurgent Nepal they should fear, not an exhausted and internally haemorrhaging Pakistan...
The United States has placed Pakistan on a special watch list "for severe violations of religious freedom", a press release by the US State Department said on Thursday...
The move comes days after US President Donald Trump said Pakistan had given the US nothing but lies and deceit, despite Washington giving it more than $33 billion in aid...
Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has said that Islamabad is seeking a clarification from Washington over its recent announcement to place Pakistan on a special watch list "for severe violations of religious freedom"...
“We have noted the announcement by the US State Department regarding placement of Pakistan on a special watch list,” the ambassador said in a statement on Sunday, adding that Pakistan was...
CONGRESS politician and peace activist Mani Shankar Aiyer is being branded by Prime Minister Modi’s ruling cabal as an anti-India conspirator working with Pakistan to depose the BJP government in Gujarat, and to instal a Muslim chief minister there...
It is the robust and resurgent Nepal they should fear, not an exhausted and internally haemorrhaging Pakistan...
WASHINGTON: The United States has retained Pakistan among the countries that tolerate religious discrimination, says a US State Department statement released on Friday...
The determination, made on Dec 18, includes Myanmar, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan among the states that have been re-designated as “Countries of Particular Concern (CPC)”...
HYDERABAD: The Sindh government is under no obligation to fix the price of sugar cane for every crushing season under the Sugar Factories Control Act, 1950, the Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit bench was told by the counsel for litigant sugar millers on Tuesday...
“In fact, it is not incumbent upon the government to determine price of sugar cane on recommendations of the board,” suggested the affidavit citing the words ‘or...
ATHENS: Nasima, 32, has just finished wrangling with her two daughters and one son, when a foreign journalist comes asking Afghan refugees what they plan to do after reports that the border of Macedonia is closed to all non-Syrians...
“What did he say?” she asks in panic
LONDON: It was January 2016 and oil prices had crashed to their lowest in more than a decade...
Saudi Arabia's health minister, Khalid al-Falih, a favourite to take over the oil ministry from his mentor Ali al-Naimi, was not panicking
KARACHI: Condemning the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government at the Centre for failing to pass on the benefit of record low oil prices in the international market to the people, the Sindh Assembly on Monday unanimously demanded that the federal government fix price of per litre petrol at Rs40...
On Jan 31, the federal government had slashed the per litre price of petrol by Rs5 for the month of February...