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As reports said El Nino phenomenon had contributed to spell that has seen fires raging through Canada’s Alberta province, the United Nations  has asked called for coordinated efforts to prevent weather extremes resulting from disturbed atmospheric patterns. A...

After a series of intense civil-military consultations Pakistan has launched a new military operation n southern Punjab, the most prosperous province whose capital Lahore was the scene of a deadly March 27 Easter Sunday attack that killed...

Pakistanis, having a special love for foreign and imported items, will soon have an opportunity to relish milk of cows of American origin as some 300 Holstein heifers have reached commercial farms in agriculture-rich Punjab province....

After a one-year lull, terrorists struck Lahore, killing 71 citizens in a packed recreational park, with children and women being majority of victims. The attack took place on the occasion of Easter and injured more than...

South Asia is once again on the edge with Pakistani-Indian cricket rivalry reaching a fever pitch with a T-20 match between the two of the world’s top teams at Calcutta’s Eden Gardens ground. Pakistan’s cricket team...

Hit by low prices, growth in global oil supply is plunging and will only start re-balancing in 2017, the latest International Energy Agency medium-term report for the next five year says. But the report cautions that...

Lower oil prices in the international market caused a 35 percent dip in the U.S. mining and exploration investment in 2015, the lowest in at least nine decades, according to a latest report by the Energy...

In Pakistan’s agricultural heartland, particularly between the central city of Lahore and Multan in the south, potato harvesting activity is picking up pace. In addition to mechanized digging of the earth to bring the potatoes out, thousands...

South Asian agrarian economies have been growing at a rapid pace in the recent years. Their share in the world cereal harvests is also enviable- 60 percent of total rice and 50 percent of wheat. Fruit...

General Raheel Sharif  – who is credited with prosecuting Pakistan’s most effective fight yet against terror  – in North Waziristan and elsewhere along the Afghan border -– has announced that he would retire from the powerful army...