For the first time in the history of Pakistan, the country's transgender community will be included in the national population census...
The Lahore High Court on Monday instructed the federal government, National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and the interior ministry to include the transgender community in the census while hearing a petition filed by a transgender individual Waqar Ali in November 2016...
Census data on the populations of the largest cities in Pakistan shows explosive growth in urban centres since the last census, which was conducted nearly two decades ago...
According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics' data, the two biggest population centres, Karachi and Lahore, have seen some staggering growth since 1998: with Karachi's population growing close to 60pc to reach 14...
WASHINGTON: The United States has said that it continues to value its partnership with Pakistan and looks forward to rescheduling stalled talks as a former US ambassador warns that using “blunt pressure” on Islamabad could backfire...
“We continue to value our partnership with Pakistan and look forward to scheduling meetings at a mutually convenient time,” said a spokesperson for the US State Department when asked to comment on the...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports of value-added textile products rose 7...
202bn a year ago, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Monday...
Thus, the stamp duty required to be paid/affixed will be according to the value of the property on the date when the agreement is prepared, says a judgment authored by Justice Qazi Faez Isa...
The apex court’s decision came on an appeal against two verdicts of the Lahore High Court (LHC), one from June 18, 2008 and another from March 19, 2012, which dealt with similar issues...
DUBAI: As Saudi Arabia’s anti-corruption purge sends the shares of some if its companies into a tailspin, the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund has gained in value...
Last week the market value of the Public Investment Fund’s portfolio of Saudi equities jumped by almost $3 billion, Reuters calculations show, even as the arrest or questioning of more than 200 people in the probe caused stocks in many privately controlled firms to...
Tencent's Hong Kong-listed shares have doubled in value this year, and on Monday it became the first Asian company with a market capitalisation of half-a-trillion dollars...
ISLAMABAD: The value of the carbon pricing mechanisms globally has been estimated to be just under $50 billion in 2015, according to a recent report by the World Bank Group and Ecofys...
Emissions trading systems have grown in value to $34bn from $32bn in 2014...
Although the vast majority of salespeople describe themselves as optimists, a survey shows that nearly two-thirds of high-performing sales professionals exhibit pessimistic personality tendencies, Steve W...
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08bn in April, according to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics...
However, the value-added textile segment managed to grow by an impressive 11pc on a year-on-year (YoY) basis to $607mn...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports of value-added textile products recorded positive growth during the first two months of 2017-18, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Wednesday...
The upsurge in the value-added textile category has become the main driver of growth in the country’s overall exports, PBS data shows...
The Pakistan Army has cleared the "highest and craggiest" mountaintop near the Pak-Afghan border, killing "many" terrorists and forcing others to flee to Afghanistan, a statement issued by the army's media wing said Saturday...
The operation also seeks to ‘forestall the entry’ of the militant Islamic State (IS) group from across the border into Pakistan...
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) made an ‘irregular payment’ of Rs575...
1 million to Bahria Town and the son of a local politician when purchasing land in sectors H-16 and I-17, according to an audit report submitted to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)
Hussain Nawaz's lawyer Khawaja Haris while presenting his arguments against the use of video cameras during JIT proceedings said that the law did not allow for video recording which, he maintained, was of no legal value...
Justice Ejaz Afzal said that the video recording does not change the legal value of the statement...
Balochistan has an estimated sheep population of 14...
7m, about half of the country’s sheep population...