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Canada has worked with Pakistan to facilitate enhanced business for small and medium sized Pakistan enterprises Canada Day, formerly Dominion Day, is the National Day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act (Now called the Constitution Act, 1867), which united three British colonies into a single …

Several nefarious tribal, rural and even urban societal customs deny the womenfolk their due right of inheritance Most veiled and modern women in both conservative and liberal strata of Pakistani society share the same fate of being ‘omitted’ when it comes to getting their share in the property of their parents or male siblings. Though many traditions regarding marriage in …

The government has once again interfered in the SC’s efforts to force the investigation of the Rs5 billion NICL scam by suspending FIA official, Zafar Qureshi, within 72 hours of his reinstatement. The government has once again interfered in the Supreme Court’s efforts to force the investigation of the Rs5 billion National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam by suspending Additional …

The Ottawa Dialogue is a distinguished group of academics and retired senior officials and military officers from India and Pakistan. OTTAWA: An ongoing dialogue known as the Ottawa Dialogue has resulted in the adoption of an ambitious list of nuclear confidence-building measures (CBMs). The Ottawa Dialogue is a distinguished group of academics and retired senior officials and military officers from …

To lose weight, you have to eat fewer calories than your body uses. Calories are the amount of energy in the food you eat. Some foods have more calories than others. For example, foods that are high in fat and sugar are also high in calories. If you eat more calories than your body uses, the extra calories will be …

  It goes without saying that a severe recession means rough sledding for businesses. But small businesses can escape some of the woes plaguing their bigger brethren, and downturns provide opportunities as well as hardship. “While it is true generally that recessions are bad for business, big trees make the most noise when they fall in the forest,” says Adrienne …

Majority of the students feel stressed and tensed because of high expectations of their family members, teachers or friends. Stress is indeed one of the most common problems of today’s world, so before discussing exam stress it is important to explain first that ‘what is stress’? The definition says that ‘stress is a dynamic condition in which an individual is …

President Zardari ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the government was committed to women empowerment, improvement in the living standards of the people and to reach out to the poor. He was addressing the launching ceremony of the mobile phone banking for Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) beneficiaries of northern Punjab the other day, the draw of Waseela-e-Haq …

Cut in rate of GST by one per cent: 15 per cent increase in govt employees’ salary: budget fails to address structural weakness of economy. Finance Minister, Dr Hafeez Sheikh presented the federal budget for fiscal year 2011-12 in the National Assembly amidst sloganeering from the opposition benches. A budget which envisages containing fiscal deficit at four per cent, numerous …

There is lot of resentment in Pakistan against the US policy of aggression in the region, and discrimination and intimidation of Pakistan. Immediately after the creation of Pakistan its leadership came in the US trap of encircling and stopping former Soviet Union’s expansion into West and South Asia. Pakistan had three options: First to pursue a non-aligned policy, second to …