Furniture market provides massive opportunity to strengthen trade, economy: PFC

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Furniture Council (PFC) has said that handmade world class Pakistani furniture market has a huge opportunity for furniture exporters across...

Fish exports up by 14.57pc to $451.026m

ISLAMABAD: The exports of fish and fish preparations surged by 14.57 per cent during the fiscal year 2017-18 as compared to the...

Political stability key to economic growth: SAARC CCI

ISLAMABAD: SAARC's Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Senior Vice President Iftikhar Ali Malik Sunday said that political stability studded with uninterrupted...

RCCI to hold IT conference in August, promote fintech, e-commerce

RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) is going to organise a Financial Technology Conference (FinTech) in August. The primary purpose...

Experts point at caretaker govt for keeping mum over critical economic issues

LAHORE: Holding the caretaker government+ accountable for keeping mum over critical economic issues, independent economists point out that developments suggest swift near-term...

SHC issues contempt of court notice to Civil Aviation Authority

KARACHI: The honourable Sindh High Court (SHC) has issued a contempt of court notice to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Pakistan....

Pakistan needs a real plan to prevent economic disaster: PEW

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Saturday said the country needs a real plan to avert the looming economic disaster. At this...

Unified energy tariffs being considered throughout the country, says minister

Federal Minister for Commerce, Industries and Production Mian Misbahur Rehman has said that energy tariffs should be uniformed throughout the country and that the matter has been taken up with the Prime Minister Justice (Retd) Nasirul Mulk has agreed to work on.

Food exports surge 29.28pc to over $4.797 billion

Wheat exports went up from $1.038 million to $236.339 million, showing growth of 22668 per cent

Trump at odds with strengthening U.S dollar

The U.S. dollar has been climbing against major currencies for several months, with the dollar index up nearly 7.0 percent over the last three months and on Thursday hit a one year high

Mobile, branchless banking transactions are fully regulated: SBP

SBP stated retail agents were part of the distribution network of telecom companies which also work in conjunction with banks/MFBs via service level agreement to give financial services under the jurisdiction of BB Regulations notified

Govt seeking $2 billion funding from AIIB, Swiss bank for construction of dams

After the conclusion of the meeting, Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) Chairman Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain stated the fund-raising had got a good response from the public which had donated Rs260 million so far

Attraction in tax amnesty scheme waning: Report

During July, the FBR has fetched around Rs3 billion in taxes under the tax amnesty scheme

Proposal under consideration to raise customs duty by 1 percent on all imported items

Various options are under contemplation to raise additional customs duty by 1 percent on all tariff lines of 7,200 items or increase RD on over 1,550 items

Food imports post meagre 0.68 percent rise to $6.185 billion during FY18

Also, PBS data revealed oil imports surged 32.1 percent, touching $14.4 billion in just concluded FY18 due to rise in global prices of petroleum causing the import bill to surge.