LAHORE – Honda Atlas Cars launched new model of Honda Accord and Honda CR-V Saturday.
Speaking on the occasion, chairman Honda Atlas Cars Yusuf H. Shirazi said that the auto industry in Pakistan needed a long-term and consistent Auto Policy to achieve the vision of 500,000 units by the year 2011, which would go a long way since engineering is the springboard for industrial development. Continue reading »
ISLAMABAD – Ministry of Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis would export trained and skilled manpower to the Gulf countries. In this regard, the Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC) Labour and Manpower Ministry, has invited applications for a Korean company engaged in Gulf Region, official told here. Continue reading »
By Ihtasham ul Haque
Officials fear that recourse to IMF’s balance of payments support programme is becoming unavoidable because of growing financial stress.
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I must admit ours is a story of a bully and dummies. If that is not so, then how will you define the government’s tutelage of George Bush and other American hawks towards Pakistani doves? How will you describe it when the latest US ‘gift’ to Pakistanis — the amassing of Nato troops, are knocking on our Western doors? Continue reading »
ENGINEER HUSSAIN AHMAD SIDDIQUI
ARTICLE (July 20 2008): Electricity consumers all over the country are enduring long hours of loadshedding – 6 to 12 hours on a daily basis – in the wake of prevalent power crisis that has crippled civic life as well as industry, trade and commerce. According to the reports, power deficit in the national network during April 2008 was 3,700 MW per day that widened to 3,730 MW in May. Continue reading »
Exchange rates issued by the Treasury Management Division of National Bank of Pakistan. Continue reading »
AHMED MALIK
KARACHI (July 20 2008): The outflow of foreign portfolio investment from the country’s equity market continued during the outgoing week and the foreign investors withdrew over $22.359 million in this period. Continue reading »
Let no one give me some BS about not letting Mirpur have an airport because it is part of a disputed territory. Wasn’t it so easy to drown the old Mirpur, also in disputed territory, in order for much of north Pakistan to get power supply? Continue reading »
If our leaders will only pay more attention to their own country and less to foreign visits and foreign visitors, our troubles may not disappear entirely, but we will certainly see them lessen
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By Ali Usman LAHORE: Mukhtar, considered the pioneer of the home food delivery concept in Lahore, has become a familiar name among Lahoris, particularly among residents of the Defence Housing Authority (DHA).
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It is a wrong assumption that the Taliban will again become friendly to Pakistan if it gives up its support to the US-led war on terrorism. The Taliban have an anarchist agenda that aims at dismantling the Pakistani state Continue reading »
There are many things you should not be if you are in the FATA lands. Well, you shouldn’t be there in the first place but if you have to and notwithstanding the brave words of our forever-travelling prime minister who claims tirelessly that the writ of the government cannot be challenged you should never be spotted with a clean shave.
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As the sense of things falling apart deepens every passing day, it is hard to focus on any one aspect of the national crisis. The situation in Pakistan’s frontier regions does seem to be very critical, with increasing pressure from militants and continuing ambivalence about what our rulers want to do about it. Meanwhile, the economic downturn is becoming more and more alarming. And the leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party are engaged in mutual recriminations.
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What has been happening to our economy for the past 100 days is what a professional street woman could not have withstood for a night. Consider the following: First, 38 per cent of our labour force is employed by our textile sector. Second, nearly 50 per cent of all manufacturing in this country is done by our textile sector. Third, textile exports stand at 62 per cent of our total exports. Now imagine; the textile sector is on the verge of collapse.
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This is truly a nation-in-waiting, in both senses of the phrase. It is in thrall to the whims of an unelected person to whom fate has handed over a major political party and who has dedicated himself to toying with nation and party, confining both to a state of suspended animation. Continue reading »