Business ESCAP report: UN urges Pakistan to subsidise agriculture Shahbaz Rana The United Nations (UN), in its latest report on Asia, has advised Pakistan to provide agricultural subsidies and introduce modern technologies to increase per acre yield, arrest rising food prices and alleviate hunger. Pay up, or else: PARCO seeks advance payment for oil supply to PSO Zafar Bhutta Pak-Arab Refinery Company (Parco) has warned Pakistan State Oil (PSO) that it will stop the supply of fuel if the latter does not introduce a mechanism according to which it will open letters of credit to make advance payment for oil supply rather than getting deliveries on credit. _______________________________________________ Sports Cricket: Professor Hafeez handed Pakistan's future Our Correspondents The Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) plans for the future gained further momentum as it named separate squads for all three formats while also naming Mohammad Hafeez as the team's Twenty20 captain, ending Misbah's reign at the helm. Aisamul-Rojer march into Madrid Open quarter-finals Our Correspondents Pakistan's top-seeded tennis player, Aisamul Haq Qureshi, along with his Mens doubles partner Jean-Julien Rojer, fought their way into the third round of the Madrid Open to set up a date with his former partner Rohan Bopanna. _______________________________________________ Life & Style Manto: How relevant is the writer today? Saadia Qamar 57 years after his death, Manto remains one of the most relevant sub-continental writers in present times. The Express Tribunespoke to current writers regarding the writer's influence. Out by Royal Park, the 'soul' of film lays dying Rabia Mehmood On the third floor of Atif mansion in Royal Park Lahore, Ustad Jahangir gets his canvas, colour palate and brushes out, mixes paints and starts finishing the purple colored dress of a woman in a scene from Heer Ranjha. _______________________________________________ |
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