Pakistan is now ranked at 112th position among 125 countries in the Global Trade Index, moving down from 100th position that it held last year. This is the second consecutive year that Pakistan’s position has been lowered, according to The Global Enabling Trade Report 2010, released by the World Economic Forum on Saturday.
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TOKYO: Toyota Motor said on Friday it is to acquire a 50 million dollar stake in Tesla Motors and will jointly develop electric vehicles with the Silicon Valley firm.
Toyota and Tesla Motors, based in Palo Alto, California, “intend to cooperate on the development of electric vehicles, parts, and production system and engineering support,” they said in a joint statement.Read More »Toyota teams up with Tesla Motors to make electric cars
The Islamabad Traffic Police plans to launch an online registration system to facilitate people in getting hassle-free registration of their vehicles, said SSP Islamabad Traffic Police Dr Moeen Masood. During his visit to Islamabad Chamber… Read More »Online vehicle registration system in Islamabad
By Bushra Zulfiqar
The last two decades have witnessed an increasing emphasis on women’s empowerment as gender has moved at the centre of contemporary development debates. International commitments like the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) have brought women’s empowerment as an extremely important component of all development interventions across the globe. Women’s empowerment has been approached with a variety of rationales such as women’s empowerment through improved access to educational opportunities, women’s empowerment through participation in the political process and provision of economic opportunities including but not limited to micro-credit programmes. However the market or economic participation approach towards women’s empowerment is highly debatable.Read More »Women & Economy: The Politics of Empowerment
By Saeed Minhas
Amidst the turning and twisting political and judicial scenarios and the arrival of US and NATO campaigners, the Upper House somehow managed to conclude its debate on the presidential address with the closing remarks of Law Minister Babar Awan on Wednesday with an end note that the adventurous judo-cratic ride is not yet over.
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Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan On the 34th anniversary Armed Forces Unification Day, the President H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan spoke proudly about the high standards of its armed forces based on faith, belonging, loyalty, sacrifice… Read More »Armed Forces Unification Day
Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan Safety of nuclear arsenals has become the foremost duty of each and every government in the world. Rising regional geo-political uncertainties, complicated international geo-strategic sensitivities and above all unfinished war against terrorism has… Read More »NPT AND ARMED FORCES OF UAE
ALI SUKHANVER
Political turmoil, economic disorder, scarcity of energy resources and no doubt above all the ever growing population; the developing countries have their own particular problems throughout the world. All these problems join hand together and ultimately create sky-kissing hurdles in the way to stability and prosperity of these countries.Read More »SUSPICIOUS HELPING HANDS
An email from a friend:
Dr Stephen Mak is a friend of mine at the BSF course.
He told me he treats terminal ill cancer patients by “un-orthodox” way and many patients recovered.
He explains to me before he is using solar energy to clear the illnesses of his patients.
He believes on natural healing in the body against illnesses. See the article below.Read More »Eat fruits-prevent cancer
UNICEF Pakistan is doing a commendable social service, by trying to protect the new generations of Paksitan from Polio. But there is more public awareness required about their work and reliability.