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A month-long Pakistan Mango festival will begin in Beijing today (Friday). It will formally set in motion the export of Pakistani mango, which was allowed by the Chinese government last month. During the festival, mangoes would be displayed in super stores.

Pakistan has surpassed India in denim production and analysts say there was a great scope for its exports to all over the world. “We expect denim exports is expected to surge by a CAGR of 3-4 per cent in the next 5 years,” research analyst Faisal Shaji said on Wednesday. He said: “Simultaneously, Pakistan is [...]

HANDICRAFTS SPELL magic. They have distinct features that identify the places of their origin. Handicrafts made in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh or Uttar Pradesh have characteristics peculiar to the culture of those States. The touch of class that makes the Indian handicrafts is different from that of the neighbouring countries. The handicrafts from Pakistan exhibit [...]

Cellular market continues to get a boost The cellular market across Pakistan continues to see a rush in its demand, eversince the two cardinal GSM operators, Mobilink and U-fone, announced to drop roaming charges for its subscribers. The Mobilink – the largest mobile service provider – went one step ahead and announced to remove long [...]

The federal government is planning to set up engineering parks at Karachi, Faisalabad and Sialkot to facilitate industrialists about international developments taking place in the field of machinery especially in the textile sector…

A project to introduce solar-drying technology for preservation of apricots will soon be launched in Northern Areas by the Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) in collaboration with the Council of Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET). Apricot is one of the fruits abundantly produced in all of the Northern Areas, a spokesman for the PSF said. While it [...]

Now Mobilink customers can call any other Mobilink number anywhere in the country and pay only the applicable airtime rate. A customer can be in Islamabad calling Karachi, or be in Peshawar calling Quetta, or in Hyderabad calling Lahore – all calls will be considered local as long as it is …

The annual growth of the manufacturing and industrial sector has significantly increased by 130 % during 2003-04 against the target of 7 % fixed for the last fiscal. According to sources the government had fixed manufacturing growth target of 7 % for the last fiscal but the country has not only achieved the target but [...]

Tom Slone sees the South Asian nation of Pakistan as a virtually untapped opportunity, not a risky place to locate his fledgling Fort Worth company’s only outsourcing call center, which he quietly did last summer. “Pakistan is a hidden gem, a hidden jewel,” enthused Slone, 62, chairman of Touchstone Communications, which he co-founded after working [...]

“The high-speed train will travel up to 140 km per hour, compared with a top speed of 100 km ph now reached by other trains. The high-speed trains will cut nearly one and a half hour off the typical five-hour Rawalpindi-to-Lahore trip”, he said this in news conference at Railway Headquarters here on Sunday.”