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The ‘golden mile’ in the country’s financial capital glitters Pakistan’s economy, says one top officials of the Central Board of Revenue (CBR) about the road, which also houses the country’s most popular electronic media, the GEO TV, and the biggest publishing house, the Jang Group of Newspapers. “Some 90 per cent of financial and business [...]

New cellular and fixed-line telephone companies, which are likely to begin operations by December following the deregulation of the telecom sector, are expected to create over 8,000 direct and indirect job opportunities in the country. Pakistan’s official unemployment rate stands at 8.27 percent, but economists estimate the real rate to be much higher. Telecom authorities [...]

Foreign direct investment has doubled during the past three years, which is approaching $1 billion this year. Pakistan’s Minister for Privatization and Investment stated this during a meeting with the visiting US delegation led by US Under Secretary of State, who called on him here on Monday. According to a press release issued here by [...]

With the last round of the English County Cricket Championship coming up on Thursday (September 16), and Warwickshire already having been declared the 2004 summer’s winners, Pakistan’s veteran leg-break and googly bowler Mushtaq Ahmed leads the table of top wicket-takers in first-class matches during the current season. His tally from 16 appearances is 81 wickets, [...]

Pakistan is likely to become the most accessible international trade route to Central Asia, Iran and China as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has offered to provide $2 billion to improve and rehabilitate the Pakistan Railways (PR) network. Official sources told Online on Sunday that the grant would likely to be provided primarily for the [...]

The machine-readable passports (MRPs) will be issued from October instead of September because installation of the equipment at a newly established passport office here has been delayed. Official sources said that earlier it was planned that the machine-readable passports would be issued from September, 2004 from Islamabad and Peshawar. The installation of machinery at the [...]

The Arabian Sea Country Club, located here in Bin Qasim, has the plans to develop cue sports facilities of the highest class and host national as well as international snooker events. This was disclosed by Chief Executive Officer, Arabian Sea Country Club, while talking to the media during the launching ceremony of the 18th Latif [...]

Aisam-ul- Haq outclassed the top Chinese Davis Cupper and their highest ranked ATP tennis player Peng Sun in the semi final of the Asian Tennis Championship in Tashkent after a marathon match which was fully stretched to three sets, 7-6 (12-10), 6-3, 7-6 (7-3). Both the players had to use every bit of their armoury [...]

Do manners maketh a man? Do clothes matter? Does the tie around his neck or the kerchief in his pocket say something about him? Or, in the case of Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Khurshid Kasuri, do his bejewelled cufflinks convey a hint of his personality? They may not be Van Cleef and Arpels but they’re certainly [...]

FOR centuries, Heera Mandi in Lahore nurtured some outstanding performing artistes, including the famous Noorejahan, Khurshid, Shamshad Begum, Mumtaz Shanti and many others. Most of the early film actresses for pre-Partition Lahore cinema came from the kothas of Heera Mandi. The art of music in Punjab was confined to the streets of the courtesans with [...]