BEIJING: China’s consumer prices grew at their fastest rate in almost eight years in October driven by a spike in pork prices caused by an outbreak of African swine fever, according to official figures released on Saturday...
0pc in September and the highest annual rate since January 2012...
The unemployment rate in United States fell to its lowest level in nearly 17 years in October while job creation resumed climbing after the two late-summer hurricanes, the US Labour Department reported on Friday...
The US jobless rate fell to 4...
ISLAMABAD: Unemployment rate in the country for the prime age group of 20-24 years was estimated at 11 per cent during 2014-15, said a government report released on Monday...
The average unemployment rate was 5...
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in its 'State of Human Rights in 2015 report' found that anti-state violence in Pakistan over the past year fell below 2008 levels, while there was a 40 per cent decrease in violence-related deaths in 2015...
The report examines Pakistan's performance in various areas, including violence, human rights, rights of women and children, education, health and housing, among others...
The Pakistan Army said on Thursday that it had recovered "safe and sound" a family of foreign hostages from the custody of a terrorist outfit after it received and acted on intelligence shared by the United States (US)...
""They were captured by terrorists from Afghanistan in 2012 and kept as hostages there," the ISPR handout read...
Kaneria, who was given a life ban by English cricket chiefs that effectively applied worldwide, said in an interview for an Al Jazeera television documentary quoted by the Mail: "My name is Danish Kaneria and I admit that I was guilty of the two charges brought against me by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2012...
I say sorry to Pakistan...
Lahore: Pakistan authorities returned an Indian prisoner to authorities of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) at the Wagah border crossing on Monday...
According to an official, Ghulam Qadir had crossed the Line of Control in Kashmir and entered the Pakistan territory illegally in 2012...
Clinton, who begins the 2016 presidential race as the commanding Democratic front-runner, entered the fray with a flurry of video, email and social media announcements that indicated she had absorbed some of the lessons of her painful 2008 loss and would not take anything for granted this time...
Many Democrats have been waiting for Clinton to get back into the White House fight since the day in June 2008 when she pulled out of her...
LONDON: Emerging market equity funds suffered the biggest outflow since the 2008 financial crisis in the week to Thursday, as investors braced for a possible increase in U...
KOHAT: The Parachinar Reforms Committee (PRC) has regretted lukewarm response of the government to their rehabilitation after their displacement from Parachinar following riots in 2008...
LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) denied on Monday that it covered up doping cases from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after a German TV programme revealed that positive tests by Jamaican sprinters were not prosecuted...
“During the re-analysis of the stored urine samples from the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, the laboratory found in a number of cases of athletes from a number of countries and from a number of different...
ISLAMABAD: The arbitrary use of powers for abrupt and ad hoc policy shifts and autocracy at the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) led to the 2008 crisis in the stock market, according to the Shamim Ahmed Khan report, which was submitted to the commission on June 5...
The report was a result of investigations by a committee constituted in 2012 to analyse the crisis, but the committee had became inactive after the...
ISLAMABAD: The report on the 2008 stock market crash was made public by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Tuesday...
”The incumbent SECP chairman and the relevant staff who were in the Securities Market Division (SMD) in 2008 emphasised that the corporate sector regulator failed to fulfill his duties...
That question is: how do you curb the power of a small group of large stockbrokers to manipulate the market and thereby create the conditions for periodic crashes?The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has just completed its report into the crash of 2008, and the subsequent decision to place a floor on all stocks, and claimed that the “main fault lies with the commission”...
The SECP claimed that “the only but severe fault...
KARACHI: The report on the “stock market crisis of 2008” has finally found its way to the offices of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP)...
The great crash of 2008 had swept over trillion rupees from the market and no participant, including stockbrokers, could escape the damage...