Islamabad, July 6: Pakistan has been ranked 84 among 118 countries on 'The Global Enabling Trade Report 2008' released by World Economic Forum Saturday.

Karachi, July 6 : At least seven people have been killed and many others have been wounded after a two-storey building collapsed in Karachi's Buldia Town locality here on Sunday.

Islamabad, July 6 : The Pakistan Government is still considering a proposal to commute the death sentences of around 7,000 prisoners into life imprisonment.

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Lahore, July 6 : Ram Parkash, the 51-year-old Indian prisoner who has been lodged in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail since 1998, is now expected to return to India on July 7.

Islamabad, July 5 : Latest figures issued by Pakistan's Federal Bureau of Statistics indicate that inflation has jumped over 31 per cent during the last one week.

This is first instance of inflation jumping to a record high in the history of Pakistan, lending an urgency to the need for Government intervention to hold millions of people falling into poverty trap.

The figures show that the prices of goods and services for the lowest income group increased as much as 31.6 per cent during the week ended on July 3 as compared to the same week of the last year.