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Pakistan Pavilion at a leading US apparel show ASAP at Las Vegas has attracted a large crowd on the first day. According to information reaching Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) here Tuesday, 17 Pakistani exhibitors received a positive and encouraging response at the show which was opened on August 30, 2004. Fruit of Looms has an [...]

Islamabad Telecom Region will be providing free telephone connections as part of PTCL’s countrywide campaign starting from today, Thursday. Under the campaign which will continue till September-8 including Sunday, new telephone connections will be installed without charges of registration or installation fee and subject to the technical feasibility. Customers will be entertained on first come [...]

The platinum jubilee one-day international cricket match between India and Pakistan has been advanced by a day and it would now be held on November 13 at the Eden Gardens here. Announcing this here today, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya said the change has been made after Kolkata police [...]

Tea from a Kenyan factory has found a niche in the Pakistan market because of consistency in quality, a director said yesterday. The chairman of Gathuthi Tea Factory in Nyeri district, G.W. Kagondu said the company had also been nominated as a preferred supplier by Premier Brands and Ethical Tea sourcing partnership groups. The two [...]

A few days ago, a party was hosted to launch Daawat-e-Zaika, a Pakistani food festival at Hotel Marine Plaza. Co-hosts Pakistan International Airlines gifted packets containing CDs of popular Pakistani artistes like Mehdi Hassan, Farida Khanum and Iqbal Bano. Over the years, Pakistan has had some extraordinary singers. Certain artistes have excelled in the field [...]

The largest cellular company of the world, Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) has agreed terms to pay the sum of $291 million to renew Mobilink license, a branded Pakistani GSM subsidiary of the country. ‘The company has given additional 15 years starting after the expiry of its current license in July 2007 and ending July 2022′, [...]

Now people living in Sialkot, Faisalabad and other small cities besides Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore can make investment in stock market through Internet, Chairman SECP noted. He said the investment through Internet promoted 100 percent on an international level. Dr Tariq said Rs 595 billion were invested in stock market in January 2001, which has [...]

A five-day national chemistry talent contest for HSC or ‘A’ level students will begin on Wednesday at the HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi. Pakistan had first participated in the 32nd International Physics Olympiad held in Turkey in 2001. Pakistani students have so far participated in three Physics Olympiads and their performance has [...]

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to make a new landfill keeping in view the rapid growth of the population in the federal capital and had allocated 100 acres of land for the purpose near Kurri Road, sources told Daily Times. Sources said that CDA officials had chalked out the plan in this regard [...]

More than 2.2 million Afghans have returned home so far from Pakistan since the voluntary repatriation programme of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) started in 2002, an official of the agency told IRIN in the capital, Islamabad, on Monday. “Over 300,000 Afghans have returned to their homeland since the [...]