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[ FAISALABAD: Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) President Farooq Yousaf Sheikh has welcomed Pakistan Railways’ decision to hand over the commercial management of its Cargo Express service to the private sector and urged the railway authorities to route the proposed train through Faisalabad to facilitate the growing import and export requirements of the … Read more
[ Secretary advocates safe use of pesticides, machine harvesting to reduce crop losses Farmers plant rice seedlings in a paddy field on the outskirts of Lahore July 10, 2011. PHOTO : REUTERS LAHORE: Punjab Agriculture Secretary Shakeel Ahmad Mian on Saturday painted an optimistic picture of the province’s paddy sector at a meeting of the … Read more
Shaukat Yousafzai says federal authorities planned violence, urges talks instead of force PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf provincial spokesman Shaukat Yousafzai has described the party’s decision to postpone its long march to Islamabad as a calculated political strategy aimed at compelling the federal government to yield. Speaking to the media outside the Peshawar High Court, he insisted … Read more
[ KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) remained range bound during the outgoing week as geopolitical uncertainty and domestic developments kept investors cautious, with the benchmark KSE-100 index closing at 170,765, down 119 points, or 0.1%, week-on-week. On a day-on-day basis, the bourse commenced the trading week with range-bound activity. The KSE-100 gained 269 points … Read more
The Singapore Sling was said to have been invented more than a century ago in a colonial-era hotel, where it now goes for about $40 a pop.
Years after a coup, the military is increasingly using motorized paragliders and gyrocopters to bomb towns and villages in rebel-held territory.
[As a group of players from an all-women’s baseball league in the 1940s and ’50s gathered at a recent reunion, the future of women’s baseball looks bright again.
. KARACHI: Three people including a five-year-old boy were killed in separate traffic accidents in different areas of the city. A five-year-old boy was killed after being hit by a Mazda truck in Machhar Colony. The body was shifted to Civil Hospital where the victim was identified as five-year-old Murshid. In another incident near City … Read more
In China, A.I. doomsday warnings can feel distinctly Western or like a ploy to stop Chinese A.I. companies from trying to overtake their U.S. rivals.
Complain of inadequate toilets, water and stale food while seniors stay in luxury RAWALPINDI: Around 32,000 police personnel brought from distant districts of northern Punjab and deployed at different points in Attock district to stop the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) long march are reportedly facing a shortage of facilities, severe lack of washrooms, inadequate drinking water … Read more