BusinessPakistani exporters can easily double their food exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from a present $ 500 million to $ 1 billion because the Gulf country needs all kinds of edibles, ranging from
ForeignWestern and Arab governments have pledged more political and material support for the civilian Syrian opposition and called for an immediate halt to arms supplies to the Assad government. A final statement<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/02/28/rome-summit-pledges-help-to-syrian-opposition/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignLess than a week after the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring African nations signed a peace accord to hold off hostilties, a fresh wave of violence has erupted in the central<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/02/28/fresh-violence-threatens-dr-congo-peace-deal/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Thailand’s government has agreed to start talks with a major Muslim rebel group, marking a breakthrough in efforts to end a worsening conflict in the country’s south that has claimed more than 5,000 lives<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/02/28/thailand-and-rebels-agree-to-peace-talks/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignIraq’s prime minister has warned that a victory for rebels in the Syrian civil war will create a new extremist haven and destabilise the wider Middle East, sparking a sectarian war in his own<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/02/28/iraq-pm-warns-of-syria-crisis-spillover/" title="Read more" >...</a>
LAHOREAbdul Aleem Khan on Wednesday was elected as Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf’s (PTI) Deputy President of Lahore in the party’s ongoing internal elections. The exercise of PTI is the first of its<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/02/27/aleem-khan-elected-ptis-dp-for-lahore/" title="Read more" >...</a>
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the petitioner of the Adiala Jail missing persons’ case to explain the jurisdiction under which the court was bound to hear the case. The directions were<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/02/27/sc-asks-about-jurisdiction-in-adiala-jail-case/" title="Read more" >...</a>
BusinessPakistan’s exports to Malaysia have inflated by 6.15 per cent according to trade figures available for the period January-October 2012, says a press release issued by the Pakistan High Commission in
Students, teachers and operators of primary schools that are part of the integrated education learning programme (IELP), an initiative of the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF), staged a protest demonstration outside the Karachi<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/02/27/govt-puts-students-future-at-stake/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignA major fire engulfed a warehouse-cum-office complex in a market in Kolkata, the capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, leaving 18 people dead and several others injured, officials said<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/02/27/18-killed-in-devastating-india-market-fire/" title="Read more" >...</a>
The Awami National Party on Wednesday decided to rejoin the Sindh government. The decision was taken in a meeting of a special committee of the Pakistan People’s Party and the Awami National<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/02/27/anp-decides-to-rejoin-sindh-govt/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALTaking a plea of “law”, the Election Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday revealed that it gave clean chit to at least seven lawmakers who contested last general elections on the basis of fake degr
