LAHORE: The private sectors of Pakistan and Australia should develop sustainable partnerships and find ways to avail the trade and investment potential that exists in the private sectors of the two countries...
This was said by Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner of Australian Trade and Investment Commission John Madew during a meeting with the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) acting president Amjad Ai Jawa on...
NEW DELHI: Shanti Kushwaha waits anxiously for the water tanker to reach the slums of Seelampur in India's capital New Delhi, bringing a scarce and fought-over essential...
So as soon as the tanker arrives, people rush with buckets and other containers to grab their share...
A line of trucks weaves in and out of the open coal pit that has been dug in the Sindh's Thar Desert...
Below the massive hole lies one of the world's largest coal reserves, untapped until now...
WAYANG WINDU: Columns of steam shoot from the ground at an Indonesian power plant sitting in the shadow of an active volcano, as energy is tapped from the red-hot underbelly of the archipelago...
Pipes zig-zag up rugged mountainsides covered in tea plantations, carrying steam from the Earth’s core to power enormous, electricity-generating turbines at the Wayang Windu facility on Java island...
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to launch ‘Overseas Pakistanis Savings Certificates’ to tap the pool of $30 billion held by Pakistanis living abroad, the Senate Standing Committee on Finance was informed on Thursday...
“In a conservative estimate, overseas Pakistanis had earnings of around $50bn out of which $20bn were remitted through formal channels while the rest $30bn remains untapped,” Zafar Masood, Director General Central...
Health Minister Saira Afzal Tarar on Tuesday ordered the formation of a committee to investigate five arrested people accused of tapping 'spinal fluid' from at least 15 women in Hafizabad and Gujranwala after tricking them into believing that it was a requirement for participation in a government welfare project...
The committee, headed by the area's deputy commissioner, has been given three days to submit its report on the matter... ...
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Wednesday that there were a lot of opportunities present in furthering relations between Pakistan and Tajikistan in different avenues and stressed the need for greater cooperation between the two countries...
The foreign minister was addressing a press conference with his Tajik counterpart, Sirajuddin Mehruddin, at Tajikistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dushanbe as part of his visit...
BERLIN: Pakistan, in a bid to tap economic potential with Germany, will soon open a consulate in Munich, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced on Tuesday...
Talking to media personnel in the German capital, Mr Qureshi said Pakistan and Germany had great prospects for cooperation in trade and investment and expressed confidence that the new consulate would expedite matters in this regard...
The federal government on Thursday said it has initiated work on a number of green financing instruments, buoyed by widespread global investor interest in Pakistan's first green bond floated in the international market last week...
The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) on May 27 launched the country's first-ever US dollar-denominated green Eurobonds, seeking $500 million for environmentally friendly projects to enhance the...
KARACHI: Motorcycle and rickshaw assemblers have been striving to tap African markets besides aiming to boost their exports to Afghanistan after business environment gets normal following takeover of Kabul by the Taliban...
Rickshaw makers are trying to break the decades-old monopoly of an Indian auto giant Bajaj in various countries, especially in African countries...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China resolved on Thursday to redouble efforts to tap full potential of the Gwadar port and free zone and to ensure that the local population fully benefits from the projects launched in various sectors...
Pakistani and Chinese officials held meetings of the two Joint Working Groups on Gwadar and Socio-Economic Development through video conferencing equipment, said a press release issued by the planning...
KARACHI: Pakistan is seeking to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes from the spot market after two long-term suppliers failed to fulfil commitments to deliver shipments in March, Bloomberg reported on Friday while citing “people with knowledge of the matter”...
Pakistan LNG Ltd has issued a tender for two cargoes to be delivered next month, the international news agency said...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has a strategy to grow sustainably by 5pc in the next two decades...
For 1pc of growth in the gross domestic product (GDP), Pakistan needs at least 2pc of it in the energy sector as well and this will not be possible unless the country taps into energies latent in Central Asia, particularly Kazakhstan...
RECENTLY we ordered some furniture from one of the leading furniture manufacturers of Lahore...
At the end of this period, they asked for another three days and then another week...
LAHORE: Pakistan on Tuesday raised additional debt of $1 billion through a tap issue of its recently issued three-tranche dollar denominated Eurobond that had fetched $2...
The bond was subscribed in excess of $3bn for five, 10 and 30 years...