Islamabad—Federal Minister for Privatization and
Investment , Syed Naveed Qamar said on Monday
that Pakistan would increase cooperation with
Yemen in the fields of education, science and
technology,energy, transport, banking, labour
and manpower. “Pakistan has gained technical
experiences has techniques in variety of fields
which can be shared with the Republic of Yemen”,
Naveed Qamar stated this while inaugurating the
5th two-day Session of Pak-Yemen Joint
Ministerial Commission (JMC) here Monday.
Faisalabad—Former speaker National Asembly Syed
Fakhar Imam stressing the need to fully
capitalize the potential of agriculture sector
said it is still contributing only 23 percent
toward GDP inspite of its size and importance in
national economy. He was addressing the
inaugural session of second 2-day National
Conference on Cotton Production at Nuclear
Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB)
here Monday.
Islamabad: Pakistan’s massive and ever-growing
infrastructure needs coupled with limited
resources, rapid population growth and an
escalating trend in urbanization signify the
need for an appropriate policy package to ensure
sustainable development of infrastructure
facilities.
Islamabad —Telenor Pakistan has recorded
impressive results increasing the revenue by 80%
compared to the same period in 2007.
Strengthening the financial gains is the
continuing positive trend of EBITDA registering
an increase of 17% over the previous quarter.
The total reported revenues for Q1-2008 are NOK
1042 million against NOK 686 million for
Q1-2007.
Lahore—In case the gas prices are raised by 35
per cent as has been sought by the Sui Gas
Companies to OGRA, it would cast devastating
repercussions upon the national economy and oust
the export-oriented industries from the
international export market.
