KARACHI: President Mamnoon Hussain has said that Pakistan today is more secure and peaceful and is the best country in the region for investment and entrepreneurs ought to take full advantage of the situation...
Inaugurating the four-day Pakistan International Trade Fair at Karachi Expo Centre (PITF) on Thursday, Mr Mamnoon said that the participation of 20 countries in the fair is manifestation of the confidence of global community...
WASHINGTON: Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Muhammad Asif told an energy conference in the US on Wednesday that Pakistan was now a safe place to invest...
“Pakistan is a frontline state in the fight against terrorism and it needs economic development to strengthen this fight,” the minister said...
BEIJING: Pakistan was the tenth largest arms importer in the world in 2015, down one spot from number nine the previous year, a military think tank database reveals, while Saudi Arabia was the leading arms importer in the world, followed closely by India...
Pakistan spent $735 million on arms imports in 2015...
COLOMBO: Pakistan on Wednesday leapfrogged Australia to secure the second position in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings after Sri Lanka completed a 3-0 whitewash over Steven Smith's side with a 163-run victory...
Read: Sri Lanka complete Test series whitewash over AustraliaPakistan will keep an eye on the final Test between West Indies and India that starts Thursday, as a draw or the latter's defeat will see...
ISLAMABAD: British High Commissioner to Pakistan Philip Barton made a scathing attack on international writers who have painted a bleak picture of Pakistan in their books at the the award ceremony of Chevening scholarships...
Talking at a gathering in Islamabad on Tuesday, he said: “Books about Pakistan have universally miserable and depressing titles...
Pakistan scored a narrow 4-3 win over Japan in the Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament in Kuantan, Malaysia on Tuesday...
Pakistan after their fourth match of the event are with two wins and as many defeats, and one match remaining, against China, the green shirts have one foot in the semifinals, said the information made available here...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been ranked the second-worst country in the world for gender inequality for the second consecutive year...
According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2016, released on Tuesday, Pakistan ranks 143 out of 144 countries in the gender inequality index, way behind Bangladesh and India which rank 72nd and 87th respectively...
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has said that Pakistan is not merely a piece of land but an ideology and there is no place for traitors in the country...
Addressing a ‘Pakistan Zindabad Rally’ via telephone on Sunday, he said treason against Pakistan would actually be treason against the blood of martyrs, Mohajirs, Hijrat and the Quaid-i-Azam...
The speakers included Karamat Ali of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education (Piler), rights experts Iqbal Detho, Zulfiqar Halepoto, Tahir Malik of the Legal Aid Forum, Javed Hussain of the SCF, journalist Mahesh Kumar, and Shahnaz Sheedi of the South Asia Partnership-Pakistan...
The speakers identified gaps in the law, saying that the rules of business of the act had long been formulated and duly put in place, however, apt...
The United States and its European allies have tabled a motion with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) with a view to placing Pakistan on a watchlist of countries considered non-compliant with global anti-terror financing measures, an exclusive Reuters report said on Tuesday...
Miftah Ismail, Pakistan's de facto finance minister, told the news agency that a few weeks ago the US and UK had nominated Pakistan to be put on the...
Pakistan is in the spotlight again...
This time, due to a motion moved by certain member states of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to place Pakistan on the body's watch-list of countries that need to do more in relation to anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism (collectively referred to as AML/CFT)...
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly has been informed that 122 sectarian incidents have taken place all over the country since June 2013 and 10 banned organisations have claimed responsibility, or found involved during investigations, of 91 of them...
According to a written reply to a question by MNA Saman Sultana Jafri of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal states that 56 sectarian incidents took place in Punjab,...
Islamabad is the most dangerous place to be a journalist in Pakistan, according to media rights watchdog Freedom Network (FN) which has released its Press Freedom Barometer 2018 — monitored from May 1, 2017 to April 1 this year — to mark the International Press Freedom Day that falls on Thursday...
According to a press release issued by FN, the group has recorded over 150 cases of attacks and violations against media and its...
Pakistan cemented its place in the final of Street Child Football World Cup 2018 in Russia after defeating Indonesia 5-4 on penalties in the semi-final fixture on Monday...
They played against Tajikistan in quarter-final match and beat them 2-0 to secure a place in semi-final against Indonesia...
WASHINGTON: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCRIF) has again recommended that Pakistan should be declared a ‘‘country of particular concern’’ but the Trump administration, like its predecessors, has refrained...
On Dec 22, 2017, the US Secretary of State placed Pakistan on a Special Watch List for “having engaged in or tolerated severe violations of religious freedom”...