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Pakistan targets regional ties at Commonwealth Business Forum

Pakistan targets regional ties at Commonwealth Business Forum

By Khurram Bari Khan KARACHI: With a focus on regional trade and investment, a high-profile Pakistani delegation will present a bundle of projects before its 54-nation fraternity at the Commonwealth...
Experts see breakthrough in Pak-India trade relations in Feb

Experts see breakthrough in Pak-India trade relations in Feb

By Salman Siddiqui KARACHI: A major breakthrough in trade relations between Pakistan and India is strongly expected next February, while strengthening of such ties is must for projecting regional...
NEEDED: COOPERATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER SHARING

NEEDED: COOPERATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER SHARING

Aoun Sahi reports on a groundbreaking Indo-Pak conference on issues of climate change and disaster risk management held in Lahore last week. “I don’t think it is tough to solve the issues...
THE BUSINESS ROAD TO PEACE

THE BUSINESS ROAD TO PEACE

A seminar on Indo-Pak trade features discussions on economics and politics interspersed with poetry, ending with a unanimous declaration on the need for mutually beneficial ‘economic...
Trading for peace

Trading for peace

By Amin Hashwani & Amir Zia Cricket diplomacy between the Pakistani and Indian prime ministers has indeed broken some ice. The baby steps of secretary-level talks indicate a thaw in frosty...
Pak-India trade talks to facilitate private sectors

Pak-India trade talks to facilitate private sectors

ISLAMABAD: Secretary Commerce Zafar Mehmood said Wednesday the private sectors of Pakistan and India would be facilitated for the benefit of the people of the two countries and for the greater goal...
Open-mind, sincerity seen vital to boost Pak-India trade

Open-mind, sincerity seen vital to boost Pak-India trade

By Our correspondent KARACHI: Pakistan will resume the stalled trade talks with India with an “open mind” and hopes to develop an institutional framework to enable the two South Asian...
Young Indians and Pakistanis: an IT connect

Young Indians and Pakistanis: an IT connect

The Aman ki Asha IT Committee’s recent meetings in Pune hold promise for joint investments and collaboration By Jehan Ara As we sat in the function room at the Ista Hotel in Pune and heard...
How Pak, Indian IT sectors can cooperate

How Pak, Indian IT sectors can cooperate

PUNE: Pakistan’s information technology sector may appear nascent when compared with India’s large talent pool, huge base of manpower in IT services business and its exports of over $50...
Aman ki Asha IT Committee meets in India, urges more trade, people-to-people contacts

Aman ki Asha IT Committee meets in India, urges more trade, people-to-people contacts

PUNE: The civil societies of India and Pakistan have an elaborate role to play in the process of establishing peace and good relations between the two countries, said members of a business delegation...