LAHORE: The Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front, while showing serious concern over the continued decline in the large-scale manufacturing index (LSMI), has stated that a National Industrial Growth Strategy from the government is essential with ownership at the highest level, as 7.97 percent drop in October’s LSM reflects overall economic slowdown across the industry...
KARACHI: President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), President All Karachi Industrial Alliance (AKIA), Senior Vice Chairman of the Businessmen Panel of FPCCI and former provincial minister, Mian Zahid Hussain on Friday lauded the resolve of the Prime Minister Imran Khan to make the country a welfare state. The PM has guaranteed a change in...
LAHORE: Vice Chairperson Overseas Pakistanis Commission Ch Waseem Akhtar has said that it is among the top priorities of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government and this is the reason why the incumbent government has taken measures to facilitate Pakistani expatriates. The District Overseas Pakistanis Committees have been made functional in this regard which is ensuring that grievances of...
LAHORE: United Business Group (UBG) central chairman and veteran trade leader Iftikhar Ali Malik Thursday said Special Economic Zones (SEZs) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will bring industrial revolution in Pakistan to accelerate economic development besides attracting a great chunk of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) which will help generating new job opportunities. He expressed these views...
LONDON: The Scotland Yard on Wednesday said they have launched a full investigation into the anti-Islamic slogans that were spray-painted on a building close to a mosque and cultural centre in south London. Officers of the Scotland Yard were called at around 11 am near the North Brixton Islamic Cultural Centre on Brixton Road, following reports that...
JAKARTA: The death toll from flash floods and landslides in and around Indonesia’s capital Jakarta reached at least 21 on Thursday, with more heavy rain forecast, authorities said. The flood, one of the deadliest in years, displaced more than 30,000 people and caused chaos across parts of Southeast Asia’s biggest city with train lines blocked and power outages in...
LAHORE: Pakistan Mini Mazda Association (PMMA) has commenced countrywide strike from Lahore against toll taxes and other increased fines motorways and highways. Earlier on 31st December 2019, the transport owners warned the government of going on a strike from Jan 2, disrupting traffic and goops supplies across the country, if their demands are not accepted. They are...
LAHORE: After canceling Prime Minister Imran Khan nephew Barrister Hassaan Niazi’s interim bail earlier for “turning up late” in today’s hearing, a special anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Thursday extended Niazi’s bail till January 6 in the case pertaining to the attack on Lahore’s Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) by hundreds of lawyers on...
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that his government is working hard to generate clean energy by installing wind and solar power projects. The breakthrough the Sindh government has made in coal-fire power generation in Thar is a milestone in the country and these projects have not only created employment opportunities...
NEW YORK: Warning that the Kashmir crisis could get worse, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Asad Majeed Khan has raised the possibility that Islamabad might redeploy troops from the Afghanistan border to the Kashmir frontier, a shift that could complicate American peace talks with the Taliban, now said to be in the final stages....