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By Special Correspondent Islamabad: The Turkish delegation expressed its interest on Monday in setting up industrial units in Pakistan to start development activities to meet the needs of the construction industry, a press release issued by the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) said on Monday. ICCI President Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan briefed the visiting delegation on future business and investment prospects in the country’s real estate and construction sectors. He said Pakistan was a major market with a massive demand for housing units and commercial buildings. He said that the current government has announced a very attractive construction…

By Our Staff Reporter Karachi: Thailand’s Consul Gene-ral in Karachi Thatree Chauvachata said that his country’s trade with Pakistan increased to $1.46 billion last year and stressed the need to strengthen bilateral economic relations. During a meeting with senior vice-president Abdullah Achakzai, vice-president Akhtar Kakar and other leaders of the Quetta Chamber of Commerce and Industry (QCCI) here on Monday, he said that more effort was needed to further improve bilateral trade and enhance economic relations between Pakistan and Thailand. He said that Thailand exported $1,174.25 million to Pakistan for vehicles, crude oil, chemicals, rubber goods, machinery and polymers, etc…

By Our Staff Reporter Rawalpindi: First Liaquat Bagh then Faizabad provided a battlefield scene as police and stick-powered activists from Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) clashed throughout the day on Sunday.Riot police had to resort to tear gas shelling against the stone-walled demonstrators who had gathered in response to TLP Leader Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi’s call to condemn the publication by French President Emmanuel Macron of the blasphemous caricatures in Charlie Hebdo magazine and remarks about Islam and terrorism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa6zsT23l0k During the clashes, hundreds of police officers, including Waris Khan Police Station SHO Abdul Aziz, and some TLP activists were wounded and…

News Desk Islamabad: At a time when rumuors are doing the rounds that China’s financial institutions and banks are hesitant to invest in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Imran Khan has decided to pursue a $2.7 billion loan from China to develop the Mainline-1 package. The main railway line 1 links Karachi in the south to Peshawar in the north of Pakistan. At the Sixth Meeting of the ML-1 Project Financing Committee, which involves the dualization and improvement of the 1,872 km railroad from Peshawar to Karachi, it was agreed that Pakistan would initially ask China to grant a loan…

News Desk Islamabad: A highly regarded senior ex-police officer of Pakistan, Tariq Khosa, writing in Dawn in July 2018 (‘The Mess We’re In’) stated: “First, Pakistan must stop harboring a massive insecurity complex. As a nuclear state with the world’s sixth-largest army, we should be confident and end our garrison-state mentality and constant worrying about survival. Rather, we should be a trading nation that takes advantage of its geographic location for economic prosperity. Second, there is no doubt in my mind that the relevant stakeholders in the state security establishment have finally undertaken to end support for erstwhile militant jihadi…

Yaakov Katz  On November 9, 2016, Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump to offer congratulations and to celebrate Trump’s election the day before. The two discussed “regional issues,” and in the end the president-elect invited the prime minister to the White House. It was a good call.As of Friday, a similar phone call has yet to take place between Netanyahu and the new president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden. This despite Biden having been announced on Saturday night as the winner, one who has already fielded phone calls from the leaders of France, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland.But…

By Haroon Siraj Swat:- Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz has said that PTI government is a wall of sand that needs single push. “I am telling to Institutions ” we do not want any clash with institution of this country, but institutions should withdraw their support of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government,” Maryam said on Friday addressing a rally in grassi ground Swat. Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal, Mian Javed Latif, Talal Ch, Amir Muqam and other leaders were present on the occasion. Maryam Nawaz said that the only way for the country to…

By Special Correspondent Islamabad : Many members of the Sindh Assembly, emerging from remote and underdeveloped regions, have considerable wealth according to the information of their assets given to the Pakistan Election Commission (ECP). The largest member of the assembly is Syed Murad Ali Shah, 82, who submitted a list of 27 properties and some 31 ancestral plots to the ECP. The properties he claims to own include one house each in Clifton and DHA, Karachi, and an apartment in Hyderabad. The other properties he owns are mainly in his native areas, such as five ‘non-functioning’ cinemas, commercial markets, ice…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan is actively engaged in negotiations with the parties involved in the dispute over the award of $5.97 billion to the Reko Diq country. The government is fully aware of and defends the interests of the country, a source private to the latest developments told sources on the condition of anonymity. The response came in response to a report released by Law 360—a website that deals with news coverage and analyses of legal issues, including litigation, case resolution, decision, policy, compliance, legislation, corporate deals, etc. The website reported that the Australian Copper Mining Joint Venture…

By Our Staff Reporter Karachi: The three-month rally that helped Pakistan’s rupee recover from record low is coming to an end, according to analysts and money managers. Asia’s second-best currency closed at 158.49 per dollar on Wednesday, earning around 6 per cent after hitting a low of 168.44 on August 26, according to Central bank reports. The Rupee completed a 20-day winning rally, the longest streak since the State Bank of Pakistan began to make the data available. For the first time in five years, stable foreign-exchange reserves and a return to current-account surplus have helped to shore up the…