...Customs Organisation (WCO) and the World Bank Group (WBG), commenced the WCO Accelerated Trade Facilitation Programme as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen trade facilitation, enhance compliance, and deepen Customs modernisation in Nigeria. The programme is designed to review previously ag...
Read Full Article...KARACHI: The search operation at Karachi’s Gul Plaza continued on Thursday in the wake of a devastating inferno, which has claimed over 60 lives so far. The fire had erupted at the Gul Plaza on Saturd...
...ISLAMABAD: Fitch Ratings, one of the world’s top three agencies, on Wednesday affirmed Pakistan’s long-term debt ratings at ‘B-’ (B-negative), which it had upgraded in April last year, and assigned a ...
...DAVOS: To muted applause and not a few stony faces, US President Donald Trump took the stage before hundreds of the world’s rich and powerful on Wednesday for the most anticipated speech of this year’...
...s raging on both mainstream and social media over PIA’s recent privatisation. Unless this debate is addressed rationally, future privatisation transactions may also be at risk. Past experience offers ...
...THE Gul Plaza tragedy in Karachi last weekend provided the perfect metaphor and visual example of a lot of what weighs down Pakistan’s economy. This was not the first such fire. Journalist Mahim Maher...
...BOTH Houses finally have an opposition leader endorsed by the majority on the opposition benches. The missing pillars of parliament have thus been restored, and both the government and opposition part...
...KARACHI: A whopping jump of $127 per ounce in the international market to $4,840 per ounce pushed the domestic gold (24 karat) rate to Rs506,362 per tola on Wednesday, the highest in the country’s his...
...BIED attacks By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri Troops of Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have sustained their advance into the Timbuktu Triangle, recording significant operational gains and further degradin...
... The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has ruled that a parliamentary committee unlawfully assumed the role of the executive and the judiciary by issuing directions for the regularisation of hundreds of co...