ONE of the country’s largest chicken producers, Cappoquin Poultry, has temporarily cut back production by 25% in response to chicken food costs increasing by 55%.

THE Cappoquin Poultry processing plant is to be taken over by two British investors who will prepare chicken for the British halal market.

A stampede after a religious gathering for women in southern Pakistan today left at least 26 women and children dead and more than 70 others injured, police and doctors said.