Posts Tagged ‘pakistan’
Pakistan wants regional approach to combat terrorism: FM
MULTAN, (APP): Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Sunday Pakistan remains committed to maintaining friendly ties with all neighbouring countries including India and prescribes a regional approach to tackle terrorism so as to stop recurrence of Mumbai like incidents. “ Mumbai attacks was a big incident which caused great damage and we need [...]
Accountability law to be amended under CoD, says President
ISLAMABAD: Federal Law Minister Farooq H. Naik briefed the President on the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) law and the amendments proposed in it here in Presidency on Saturday. Briefing the President the Law minister gave the background of how the NAB law was enacted over a decade ago for the so called accountability of corrupt [...]
SECP registers 4,461 companies during 2008
ISLAMABAD, (APP): The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has registered 4,461 companies during 2008, as compared to 4,837 companies registered during last year. The total registration of 4,461 companies during the year, comprising 4,153 private companies, 175 single member companies, 67 public companies, 39 associations not for profit licenced under section 42 of [...]
Japan extends ODA Funds to Pakistan for four development projects
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the Japan Bank of International Cooperation here on Saturday inked an agreement under which the JBIC will extend an Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the tune of 47.973 billion yen or approx US $ 478 million to Pakistan for four development projects. Junaid Iqbal Chudhry, Additional Secretary-Economic Affairs Division and Tomoharu Otake, [...]
Plan being chalked out to produce 2378.8 thousand tonnes of maize in 2008-09
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal) is chalking out a plan to cultivate maize crop over 1001.2 thousand hectare to produce 2378.8 thousand tonnes of maize to fulfill the domestic maize consumption during the year 2008-09. An official in the Minfal said here Saturday that maize is an essential food crop which [...]
Pakistan to organize single country Gems and Jewellery Exhibition in Houston-USA
Islamabad: Pakistan Gems and Jewellery Development Company (PGJDC) has planned to organize single country Gems and Jewellery Exhibition in Houston, USA in collaboration with Pakistan Chamber of Commerce USA (PCC-USA). In this regard a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between PGJDC and PCC-USA has been finalized. The prime motive of the MoU reflects the commitment towards [...]

