3/18/2009 MILAN, ITALY: Eni has signed a protocol for cooperation with the government of Pakistan aimed at developing new projects in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors...
The most extraordinary thing about these match-fixing claims, according to one industry expert, is that they surround so many players. By Simon Briggs Published: 7:00AM BST 31 Aug 2010 Feeling down: Mohammad Amir is just one of a number of players implicated in the...
By TOM WRIGHT SIALKOT, Pakistan—This is the city the soccer ball built, a global manufacturing hub in a nation starved for foreign capital and mired in terrorist violence. Nike Inc., the official soccer-ball supplier to Britain's PremierLeague, gets soccer balls...
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is expected on Thursday to introduce a raft of measures to conserve energy as the government struggles with a chronic electricity shortage, which is inflaming public anger and stifling industry. Government and energy officials have been meeting this...
Kidnapping for ransom has become a thriving multimillion-pound industry in Pakistan. According to one estimate dozens of people, many as young as 4, are abducted every day by criminal gangs operating across the country. The situation has worsened with Islamic militants...
Although the Taliban have openly claimed responsibility for the recent epidemic of suicide bombings against civilian targets in Peshawar and Islamabad, many Pakistanis appear convinced that the real culprits are India or the United States. "These are India's agents," an...
Islamabad: Lollywood, Lahore-based Pakistanfilmindustry, which at one point of time had a distinct identity of its own, is now facing a dearth of producers and directors who could make films to pull the audiences to the theatres. As the film industry produces less...
This year, the Pakistanifilmindustry produced only nine films. The reasons for this dwindle are many but most fingers point to one culprit who, they claim, has killed their industry: Bollywood. In the recent past, almost every film released in India has simultaneously...
7/15/2009 By Khalid Qayum; Khaleeq Ahmed ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN: Pakistan's government is targeting $15 billion in investment to develop its oil and gasindustry over the next five years as explorers such as Eni SpA drill in offshore fields, an official says. The majority...
Institute established in Korangi Tuesday, June 02, 2009 By our correspondent Karachi Pakistan's first Industrial and Technical Institute has been established in Korangi by the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) in collaboration with the World Memon Organisation...
Thursday, March 05, 2009 By our correspondent KARACHI: Synergy Advertising Managing Director Ahmed Kapadia has said that the recent attack on the Lankan cricket team has billed Pakistan as a terrorist state and it would be remembered for a long time. He said the Lahore...