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KARACHI: Canadian private airline Zara Airways will start direct flights from Toronto to three major cities in Pakistan this year, CEO Zara Airways Syed Quli said Sunday. Talking exclusively to media, Quli said that airline was seeking a…

LAHORE: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb today inaugurated different cultural projects at Radio Pakistan Lahore to help effectively promote soft image of the country. The projects include site for cinema,…

TORONTO: The members of Sikh community have demonstrated outside the Indian consulate in Toronto to protest the unsolved murder of one of their leaders last month in the Vancouver area. They said the Indian government is responsible for…

DALLAS: Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Masood Khan has urged Pakistani diaspora in Texas to take full advantage of the available business opportunities in Pakistan especially in IT, health, tech, agri and other sectors and also…

BARCELONA: A new mosque with the name of Al-Fatah has been opened in the Manresa Municipality of Barcelona.  The establishment of a mosque in the area had been a longstanding desire of the Muslims and now this has come a reality through…

BRUSSELS: The European Com­m­i­s­sion has proposed extending Pakistan’s GSP+ status — which is set to expire at the end of this year — for another four years as a contingency measure. The EU has decided to introduce fresh legislation to…

BEIJING: Free trade should not be taken for granted. It calls for more joint efforts to maintain and strengthen free trade at a time when globalization is slowing down, noted Zhang Xiangchen, Deputy Director General World Trade Organization…

PARIS: Hundreds of protesters defied a ban on Saturday to march in central Paris against police violence, a week after riots sparked by the killing of a teenager in a Parisian suburb. Police dispersed the crowd from Paris’s huge Place de…

BEIJING: Washington and Beijing should communicate “directly” on concerns about specific economic practices, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Saturday, urging greater cooperation between the world’s two biggest economies despite…