Voice of Pakistan

Tradekey Pakistan: World’s 3rd Largest B2B Portal

KARACHI: You would never think that a company that was giving Alibaba.com – the world’s largest business-to-business portal – a run for its money around the world was based out of Karachi and yet there it is. Tucked away in an office suite on Sharae Faisal, the global headquarters of Tradekey.com look rather unremarkable, until you start [...]

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October 18 anniversary

Four years have passed since October 18, 2007, and the truth about the massive bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto’s caravan on Karsaz road that killed at least 180 people, remains as hidden and rusty as the armoured truck that saved her life that day. Wrapped in a marquee at the Aziz Bhatti police station, the [...]

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Sherry Rehman’s bill

ISLAMABAD: The new Right to Information (RTI) bill introduced in the National Assembly will make it legally binding for public and private sector organisations to disclose their official records to the general public — unlike its predecessor bill which is serving as a “vehicle for denying information instead of making it accessible”, according to Sherry [...]

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Railway pensioners unpaid for 5 months

SIALKOT: Salma Bibi, the widow of a retired Pakistan Railways employee Mushtaq Hussain Gillani who survives on her late husband’s pension, is on the verge of starvation. Reason: the Pakistan Railways has not paid her the pension money for the last five months. She told that she and her family are suffering serious financial crisis [...]

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