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  In Pakistan, Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) or Radio Pakistan is a public radio broadcasting network and is also a mass-media state-owned huge corporation. PBC offers a broad range of news and radio services which are broadcast in Internet, TV and radio, outside the country in ten dissimilar languages. Pakistan broadcasting’s programs served as mission idea to entertain citizens by cultural features, music, and plays, while educating the international spectators …

  History is witness to the bloodshed on ideological battlefields with one combating force insisting on the purity of its way of life and the other contesting it. With the end of the cold war, democracy has emerged as the most desirable way of life in a greater part of the Western world with its proponents to be seen everywhere in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The United States is …

  Media can have a positive effect on our children, especially if parents get involved themselves when their children are using them. It is difficult to choose the good from the bad when it comes to media. Apart from good messages there are several negative messages about media. This depends upon how viewing and interacting with it might harm children. Research shows that children can benefit from media. The benefits …

  One of the gravest social and economic problems facing the country is unemployment. It is a fact that one person out of ten is out of work in Pakistan. It is a global problem, even the most advanced and prosperous countries of the world like USA, Britain are Japan are faced with this problem. It is difficult to provide jobs to all but it can be tackled down. We …

  Message of Dr. Song Jong-hwan, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Pakistan and Interview with Dr. Baek Yeong-hoon, translator of President Park Chung-hee’s first commercial loan delegation to West Germany in 1961. It has been 1 year and 8 months since I came to Pakistan as the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea. During this time the most frequently asked question of my Pakistani friends has been “How …

  Pakistan’s human resource community is far behind in their awareness of global requirements and the development of modern technologies to deal with them. It is hard to compete in this modern world economy without having expertise and qualified and well-skilled manpower. Human Resource Development (HRD) plays an important part in the long-term planning for economic development. Many developed and developing countries have put greater importance on Human Resource Development …

  Singapore and Philippines are the role models in making improvement in our workforce Interview with Ms. Maleeha Bangash, Deputy CEO – Habib Asset Management Ltd PAGE: Tell me something about yourself and your professional achievements, please: Maleeha Bangash: My family originally hails from Kohat, a small town in the North West of Pakistan, (now known as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), and I was born in Kohat. My parents decided to settle …

  Fisheries is an important sector but it contributes only 0.3 percent to the overall GDP of Pakistan and 1.3 percent to the agricultural GDP, despite a coastline of 1,050 km and a total area of approximately 0.25 million square kilometers of marine and 0.08 million sq km of inland waters. The sector has an export potential of $1 billion’ annually and it provides direct employment to about 379,000 fishermen …

  Today, Pakistan is beset by multi-dimensional challenges. The nationalism must replace sectarianism and parochialism and similarly, peace and tolerance should replace terrorism and extremism. These miracles are possible if all segments and institutions of society stand unanimous and united on one national agenda of strengthening Pakistan. The country needs to activate the forces of national cohesion and weaken the forces of national disintegration. Today, when the nation is celebrating …

  The National Economic Council has approved National Development Program for FY2015 at Rs1,175 billion, which is larger by 1.7 percent when compared to budget predicted in FY2014. Total National Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) for FY2015 is 4 percent of GDP. The development program of FY2015 comprises of Rs525 billion as federal PSDP counting international aid of Rs102 billion and Rs650 billion for provincial ADPs counting Rs90 billion international …