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Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced on Wednesday that at least eight memoranda of (mis)understanding (MoUs) will be signed between Islamabad and Riyadh during Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s upcoming two-day visit to Pakistan. Addressing a news conference in Islamabad, Mr Qureshi said the Saudi royal did not wish to visit Pakistan just to …

The twenty first century is a media century. Media disseminate the information according to the recommendations of media agglomerates. The media agglomerates use the financial capital for making any project successful or unsuccessful. It is an age of commercialism where consumer products to human emotions all are commercial. Even commercialization of religion has been the …

India and Pakistan share both history and geography yet they are constantly in a state of war – not always literally, but figuratively speaking. People on both sides of the border have suffered a great deal due to the tense relations between the two sides. States always have their own reasons to behave a certain …

Lahore: Punjab’s economy and the culture of tolerance and religious harmony seriously suffered because of massive diminution of cultural and traditional festivities that had maintained a balance in the society and supported the province’s economy simultaneously, say experts and artists. In a small room, a young boy in his early 20s is rendering verses of …

Lahore: Water experts and economists believe that inviting open bids for the construction of dams and floating shares in the market would not only solve the problem of water’s scarcity but also boost national economy. The Prime Minister in his recent address to the nation accentuated the urgency of building new dams in the country, …

Islamabad: As all our attention is focused on Asad Umer’s economic wizardry which will lead us to the proverbial Camelot that he and Prime Minister Imran Khan have promised us all along, something is amiss here. Of course, the economic challenges are indeed daunting: turning around public sector enterprises like the Steel Mills and PIA …