Exports of cement shrink by 50.75pc during April 2017

Exports are proving to be Achilles's heel for the cement sector that has seen its growth inhibited by the regular decline in...

Committee concerned over black marketing, delayed delivery of new cars

National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Industries and Production showed serious reservations over the delayed delivery of new vehicles by the manufacturer/assemblers, indicating...

ICCI asks NBP to offer easy credit scheme for SMEs

Senior Vice President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry Khalid Malik has called upon the National Bank of Pakistan to consider offering...

Soybean worth $150.72 mln, palm oil $1.384 bln imported

Soybean oil worth US$ 72.456 million was imported into the country during the last three-quarters of the current financial year, as compared...

She Loves Tech, global start-up competition now open

The She Loves Tech Global Start-Up Competition is designed to give the world’s most promising women entrepreneurs and women impact startups an...

Pakistan to get $ 2.5b as infrastructural financing from ADB: Ishaq Dar

Pakistan will hopefully get financial allocation of $2.5b as infrastructural financing from Asian Development Bank (ADB), which would help country’s economy to post 7 per...

GB establishes BoI to facilitate investment, utilise CPEC potential

Like other provinces of the country, Gilgit-Baltistan has also constituted its own Board of Investment (BoI) to attract investment and facilitate the...

Japan provides $ 24 million for Islamabad-Burhan Transmission Line

Japan and Pakistan on Thursday signed a loan agreement worth $24 million for the first phase of implementation of Islamabad-Burhan Transmission Line...

Pakistan’s corporatisation: Senate Standing Committee approves Companies Bill

The Senate Standing Committee on Finance, Revenue, Economics Affairs, Statistics and Privatisation has approved the Companies Bill, 2017, after proposing certain important...

Registration spree: SECP registers 884 companies in April, 2017

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has registered a record number of 884 companies during the month of April 2017,...

ADB to provide financing of $1.055m for nine projects in Pakistan during 2017-2019

Asian Development Bank will roughly provide financing including loans and grants valuing $1.055m for nine projects in Pakistan particularly in water and irrigation...

Pakistan’s economy to grow says UN survey

The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2017 report has forecast Pakistan’s growth forecast to be 5.2pc and 5.4pc...

China’s Belt and Road initiative for the greater good of all

Why do Western commentators look at China's Belt and Road Initiative with Cold War prejudice, calling it a modern-day version of the...

CDWP approves Karachi Circular Railway, Peshawar Rapid Bus project

The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Wednesday approved development projects worth Rs 130 billion including a CPEC scheme ‘Revival of Karachi...

Shipping activity at Port Qasim

Five ships; C.V Maersk Pittsburgh, C.V APL Miami, M T Straum, M T Khor Gas and M V Iris Oldendorff carrying containers,...