Khushhali Microfinance Bank posts 40pc increase in pre-tax profits
KARACHI: Khushhali Microfinance Bank Limited (KMBL) posted its financial results for the year 2017 on February 14, 2018, in Islamabad, posting appreciable...
ICCI holds RTC on Charter of Economy
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Finance Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan, attended the Round Table Conference (RTC) on Charter of Economy arranged by...
Sugar Sharks: How does the most powerful lobby in Pakistan get its way?
Scores of sugarcane-laden lorries are parked on the main road in front of an abandoned car-making plant in Sujawal district, about 130...
Is Treet Corporation Pakistan’s next big conglomerate?
Syed Sheharyar Ali is now the fourth generation of his family to be a major business owner in the region that is...
Lethal medicine
Old furniture scrap and dried leaves scattered on the floor welcome whoever enters this worn-out Raj era building that houses an important...
Fit in Punjab, unfit in Sindh?
In a first, the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Karachi registry banned selling and distribution of four brands of packaged milk including Nurpur...
Ending electricity shortage accelerated industrial development: MPs
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentarians and leaders on Sunday said the government has ended load-shedding in the country and provision of...
Friendly policies demanded to boost small businesses
KARACHI: The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) invited the attention of Small Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) CEO Sher Ayub...
PICIIP an important initiative for development of Sialkot, Sargodha, RYK: Kiyoshi Nakamitsu
LAHORE: Punjab Intermediate Cities Improvement Investment Programme (PICIIP) is an important initiative for the composite development of Sialkot, Sahiwal, Rahim Yar Khan,...
Large scale manufacturing posts 5.5pc growth in six months
ISLAMABAD: The country’s Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) sector has witnessed a growth of 5.5 per cent during July-December 2017-18 compared to the...
NTDC expresses dismay at imposition of Rs10mn fine by regulator
LAHORE: National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC) expressed its disappointment and dismay at the imposition of fine amounting to Rs 10...
General Electric contemplating sale of its industrial engine business
BOSTON: General Electric is exploring a sale of its industrial gas engine business that could be worth as much as $2 billion,...
Commerce dept backs Trump’s proposal to impose tariffs on steel, aluminum
WASHINGTON: The Commerce Department is urging President Donald Trump to impose tariffs or quotas on imported aluminum and steel, which it calls...
OECD treaty regulations bar member nations from prosecuting its nationals
ISLAMABAD: According to regulations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) agreement, no member nation can prosecute its nationals for having...
Parliamentary panel dismisses KP industry’s claim of gas overbilling
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel dismissed Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa industries claim of overbilling after Sui Northern Gas Pipeline’s (SNGPL), managing director promised to resolve the...