ISLAMABAD: A pilot project has been launched by the Directorate of Agriculture Extension to encourage and set up a food processing industry in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata)...
They said there was a vast avenue for investment in the fields of industry, agriculture, livestock, mineral and forest in Fata, adding that steps were being taken to expedite the process of investment...
NEW DELHI: Rising tensions over eating beef in Hindu-majority India are starting to hit the multi-billion dollar buffalo meat trade, with exports falling in the last six months as traders run short of supplies and China lifts purchases from Brazil...
Religious activists, who critics say have been emboldened by Hindu-nationalist premier Narendra Modi's ascendance, have stepped up attacks on the beef industry, alleging that cows are...
ISLAMABAD: Leader of a Chinese delegation Zhu Maa has shown interest in investing in Halal meat industry in Pakistan and exporting it to China and Middle Eastern countriesMr Zhu said this during a meeting with Minister for States & Frontier Regions and Narcotics Control Shehryar Khan Afridi...
“I have visited Pakistan around half a dozen times and each time it was a great experience...
ISLAMABAD: Turkey’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock has sent a latest automatic tea-processing plant to Pakistan as a gift in recognition of the country’s tea-growing efforts...
Spread over 50 acres, this is Pakistan’s first tea garden where black and green tea is produced...
In this regard, the board has undertaken measures for setting up a modern date farming and processing unit in Dera Ismail Khan...
About 1,000 acres of land has been identified for investors to establish a modern date farming and processing unit in DI Khan, with the operational capacity of 50 tons a day, said the board’s vice-chairman Senator Mohsin Aziz in a statement here on Wednesday...
KARACHI: A broken road passing through half-covered drains and a stench mark the way to the country’s billion dollars tannery industry located in the Korangi area, where factories are abuzz with activity these days due to post-Eid business rush...
Once inside a factory, the first thing one experienced was the unbearable pungent smell emanating from raw material and chemicals used for processing...
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali on Thursday ordered the Human Rights Cell (HRC) of the Supreme Court to ensure proper and timely compliance with apex court’s directions by public functionaries...
The directive to the HRC’s director general was issued after it was noted that despite specific directions by the court in the human rights case of 2009 regarding timely processing of pension cases, the court was...
MULTAN: A number of taxpayers are facing hardships to file their income and sales tax returns for 2014-15 owing to ‘flaws’ in the Integrated Tax Management System (ITMS) and its slow processing...
The ITMS software was developed to streamline the sales and income tax issues by the Pakistan Revenue Automation System (PRAL)...
SWABI: Pakistan Tobacco Company (PTC) has introduced a modern way of curing Virginia tobacco on an experimental basis in three districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
They said Sirajul Haq, research and development manager, British American Tobacco (BAT) Bangladesh, and Ghulam Rabani, BAT research officer, during their 10-day stay in Pakistan finalised the plan after visiting different areas...
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch said on Monday that land was being provided to China for the construction of an international airport and setting up of an export processing zone in Gwadar...
He said China would establish an export processing zone in Gwadar to make the deep seaport fully functional, adding that China would also build roads which would connect the airport with the export processing zone and...
WASHINGTON: US visa processing has returned to full strength after hardware problems, the State Department said on Monday, noting that 410,000 visas were issued in a week as officials scrambled to clear a huge backlog...
The hardware failure had been preventing processing and transmitting the mandatory security-related biometric data checks...
Dates are put in a huge heated cauldron for half an hour under conventional fruit processing mode that turns freshly plucked dates into chuhara...
Dates export could be raised to $200m from the current $28m with proper processing and packaging...
UNITED NATIONS: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has called upon Australia to end its off-shore processing policy on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Papua New Guinea amid reports of widespread, acute mental distress and attempted suicide by children and young adults...
WASHINGTON: Asylum seekers hoping to enter the US via its southern border will have to wait in Mexico while they are assessed, President Donald Trump announced on Saturday, appearing to confirm a report about a bilateral deal published by The Washington Post...
The move was cautiously welcomed by some refugees currently at the border, even as Mexico’s incoming interior minister Olga Sanchez Cordero, who was quoted by the Post as...
LOS ANGELES: Hundreds of detainees from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities in Texas and elsewhere are being flown to San Diego for processing beginning on Friday, the agency said...