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[ President says 2nd phase of Absheron field will increase gas production by 5b cubic metres BAKU: Azerbaijan signed agreements representing more than $10 billion in potential investment at an international forum in Baku, a presidential aide said on Saturday, as the country also announced a series of energy deals. State oil company Socar, France’s … Read more
Trump says they want to make deal to open Hormuz Strait immediately because they’re losing so badly An Iranian woman shouts during a march in Tehran, Iran. Photo: Reuters Iran on Sunday insisted that only diplomacy can solve its conflict with the United States and Israel after US President Donald Trump said he rejected an … Read more
[ Gains cap volatile week driven by uncertainty about AI winners and losers, war concerns The Wall Street sign is pictured at the New York Stock Exchange in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 9, 2020. REUTERS BENGALURU: Wall Street ended higher on Friday, lifted by Microsoft and other AI-related … Read more
Trains departing Peshawar for Rawalpindi, Attock, Nowshera, Jahangira and Taxila are leaving fully loaded PESHAWAR: The closure of major land routes for the Islamabad Long March has triggered a severe shortage of railway tickets on the Peshawar – Rawalpindi corridor, with tickets now being sold on the black market and trains packed far beyond capacity. … Read more
[ FAISALABAD: Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) President Farooq Yousaf Sheikh has welcomed Pakistan Railways’ decision to hand over the commercial management of its Cargo Express service to the private sector and urged the railway authorities to route the proposed train through Faisalabad to facilitate the growing import and export requirements of the … Read more
[ Secretary advocates safe use of pesticides, machine harvesting to reduce crop losses Farmers plant rice seedlings in a paddy field on the outskirts of Lahore July 10, 2011. PHOTO : REUTERS LAHORE: Punjab Agriculture Secretary Shakeel Ahmad Mian on Saturday painted an optimistic picture of the province’s paddy sector at a meeting of the … Read more
Shaukat Yousafzai says federal authorities planned violence, urges talks instead of force PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf provincial spokesman Shaukat Yousafzai has described the party’s decision to postpone its long march to Islamabad as a calculated political strategy aimed at compelling the federal government to yield. Speaking to the media outside the Peshawar High Court, he insisted … Read more
[ KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) remained range bound during the outgoing week as geopolitical uncertainty and domestic developments kept investors cautious, with the benchmark KSE-100 index closing at 170,765, down 119 points, or 0.1%, week-on-week. On a day-on-day basis, the bourse commenced the trading week with range-bound activity. The KSE-100 gained 269 points … Read more
The Singapore Sling was said to have been invented more than a century ago in a colonial-era hotel, where it now goes for about $40 a pop.
Years after a coup, the military is increasingly using motorized paragliders and gyrocopters to bomb towns and villages in rebel-held territory.