There are protests at some squares in big cities — by traders who are kind enough or clever enough to use the word ‘mazdoor’ in their slogans for the most dramatic effect...
Also the pilots’ union has been seen asserting itself to make sure some kind of standards are maintained on special flights to bring back stranded Pakistanis...
LAHORE: The Punjab government has ‘failed’ to fulfil its promise of launching “Punjab Mazdoor Card” to 1...
The Mazdoor card would allow labourers to draw payment of salary through bank account and it would help ensure the minimum wage...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is considering withdrawing a suit filed against the European Union at the World Trade Organisation in 2014 over imposition of countervailing duties on export of polyethylene terephthalate (PET)...
The EU had imposed countervailing duties on import of polyethylene terephthalate from Pakistan, Iran and the United Arab Emirates in June 2009...
KARACHI: “The European Union (EU) is a friend of Pakistan,” said Anne Marchal, EU Minister and Deputy Head of Mission, Delegation of the European Union to Pakistan, during her lecture on ‘EU-Pakistan relations in current regional and international scenario’ organised by the Area Study Centre for Europe, University of Karachi, on Tuesday...
While categorically discussing areas in EU-Pakistan relations such as trade, policy,...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has expressed concern over a notice served by the Press Council of Pakistan on Dawn for what it called violating the Ethical Code of Conduct by publishing an interview of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif about the 2008 Mumbai attacks...
“The unwarranted blocking of the distribution of one of the main independent newspapers has yet again shown that the military are determined...
HARARE: Around 200 hundred people from Zimbabwe’s main trade union on Saturday marched to government offices in Harare to demand that President Robert Mugabe fix the ailing economy and fulfil an election promise to create over 2 million jobs...
The union held similar demonstrations in five cities across the country...
ISLAMABAD: Trade union leaders and workers organisations all over the country have condemned the massacre of 20 labourers at Turbat in Balochistan and announced mourning for three days...
The announcement was made by the All Pakistan Workers Confederation (APWC), a representative body of workers in the country, at a meeting held at the Labour Hall on Sunday...
SOUTH Africa’s biggest union group held marches nationwide on Wednesday to protest what it alleges is chronic corruption fuelled by President Jacob Zuma and a prominent family of businessmen, reflecting public anger over a scandal that has ensnared several international companies...
The demonstrations by thousands of members of the union group, which once supported Zuma, are unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the president, who...
BRUSSELS: The EU and Turkey agreed to update a 20-year-old customs union on Tuesday, while Brussels promised to address Ankara’s concerns about a huge European trade deal with the United States...
The customs union was set up in 1995 as a stepping stone to EU accession...
TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of teachers of government schools staged a protest demonstration on Monday outside the press club to condemn the arrest of Punjab Teachers’ Union central chief Hafiz Ghulam Muhayuddin and other office bearers in Lahore for demanding raise in salaries...
QUETTA: 51 union councils in Balochistan have been declared to be at a 'high risk' for polio virus by the Balochistan Polio Emergency Cell...
The Balochistan Health Department (BHD), Unicef and the World Health Organisation are formulating a strategy to launch an anti-polio campaign in the 51 'high risk' union councils, Dr Rehman said...
Ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain delivered an eloquent talk at the English Speaking Union Pakistan (ESUP) at a dinner-reception at the residence of ESUP Islamabad president Khalid Malik...
The topic for the evening was the role of the European Union in international cooperation, including with Pakistan...
Romanian Ambassador Nicolae Goia and his wife Doina Goia hosted an event to mark the 99th anniversary of the ‘Great Union’ following the end of World War I in 1918 when the modern, unified Romanian state was created...
The chief guest on the occasion was Rana Tanveer Hussain, federal minister for defence production and science and technology, who praised the cordial cooperation between Pakistan and Romania...
SYDNEY: The chairman of Cricket Australia (CA) has heavily criticised the country’s top players for their stance in a long-running pay dispute, and accused their union of a “reckless strategy that can only damage the game...
The previous agreement expired on June 30, but CA and the union remain deadlocked, leaving about 230 players technically unemployed...
HYDERABAD: Members of the All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers’ Union (CBA) took out rallies and held demonstrations in several Sindh towns on Thursday, demanding 150 per cent rise in salaries, pensions and other privileges in the upcoming budget...
In Hyderabad, members of the union including workers of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company, various wings of Wapda, powerhouses, water wings and the National Transmission Dispatch...