...ISLAMABAD: The Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) sector recorded a contraction of 0.74 per cent in the outgoing FY25 compared to the previous fiscal year, falling short of the growth target of 3.5pc, according to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Friday. The LSM, which contribute...
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...flurry of superpower-style signalling from Washington and Moscow over the war in Ukraine heralded the first US-Russian summit in four years, but on the ground in Alaska there was a mix of the bizarre,...
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...re the city stirs, a sanitation worker descends into the underbelly of civilisation. He owns no mask, no boots, no uniform; he only possesses second-hand shoes whose soles have long forgotten resistan...
...d supply of fertiliser ahead of the Kharif season to farmers, says Minister for National Food Security and Research Rana Tanveer Hussain. The minister stated this during a meeting with Engro Fertilis...
... remain unidentified • Minarets of worship places torn down, one set ablaze; nearby homes also attacked • HRCP calls for strict action on hate speech LAHORE: Dijikot police have registered two cases a...
...ed; it occurs because of the failure of a society to organise itself for development…” Albert O. Hirschman (The Strategy of Economic Development, 1958). ON Pakistan’s 78th independence anniversary, w...
...Geneva.—AFP KARACHI: The 10-day negotiations towards a legally binding agreement to tackle global plastic pollution fell apart on Friday, a couple of days after the first draft of the treaty was ...
...ime’ • Palestinian leaders oppose Tel Aviv ‘plan’ to relocate people from Gaza to South Sudan • At least 23 dead in fresh Israeli strikes; number of aid-seekers killed since May at 1,760 ISLAMABAD / J...