Vietnamese traders to visit Karachi, Islamabad to explore business opportunities
KARACHI: Nguyen Xuan Luu, Ambassador of Vietnam, while commenting on Pakistan-Vietnam bilateral trade and investment ties, stated that a business...
World Bank MD hail economic reforms of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Managing Director World Bank Sri Mulyani Indrawati along with her economic team met the Federal Minister for Finance Mohammad...
Pakistan struggling to avoid mango export bans in EU
KARACHI: For the second year in a row, Pakistan is still struggling to avoid a possible ban on its fresh...
Customs Appellate Tribunal orders re-determination of gas hobs values
KARACHI: The Customs Appellate Tribunal has set aside a Valuation Ruling 618/2013 ordered the Valuation Department to redetermine the value...
Dar approves Rs 480m for eid salaries of PSM
ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar has approved an amount of Rs. 480 million for grant of one...
Ishaq Dar chairs ECC meeting
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance, Mohammad Ishaq Dar chaired meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet here....
Ishaq Dar asks FBR to further expand tax net
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister, Mohammad Ishaq Dar had a meeting with Chairman and other senior officials of Federal Board of Revenue(FBR)...
Pak economy better than India, says Bloomberg
LAHORE: Pakistan’s economy has been declared better than India’s in Bloomberg report published on Friday. Pakistan has been included among...
US should extend extra support to overcome energy crisis: LCCI
LAHORE: Energy, taxation and bureaucratic hurdles to businesses came under discussion during over an hour long meeting between Political &...
Dar meets Chinese Finance Minister, top banking heads
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Muhammad Ishaq Dar met with several top ranking heads of China’s financial...
PSM to approach govt for Rs 4.5 billion bailout package
KARACHI: Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) has planned to approach the federal government for a Rs 4.5 billion bailout package, including...
Pakistan to export rice to Philippines
KARACHI: The Philippines has offered to import 50,000 tonnes of rice from Pakistan to help it meet its goal of...
LCCI asks FBR to act as “facilitator” in larger interest of traders
LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry has feared that Federal Board of Revenue would not be able to...
Model Customs Collectorates to remain open on 30th June, 2015
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has directed to keep all Model Customs Collectorates open on 29th till 10...
Customs House to remain open today to collect duties, taxes
KARACHI: The Customs House is to remain open today (Sunday) as routine office timings to collect duties and taxes, it...
Business Express sends legal notices to Railways
LAHORE: Pakistan-Business Express has started sending legal notices to Pakistan Railways over non compliance on agreements signed between the two....
Load-shedding to cripple economic activities
LAHORE: Cuts in power supply to the industry would hit economic activities hard therefore government would have to exploit all...
ECC approves enhancement of regulatory duty on sugar import from 20pc to 40pc
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet in its meeting chaired by the Finance Minister, Mohammad Ishaq Dar considered...
Local car sales jump 30% year-on-year
KARACHI: Local car sales during the first 11 months (Jul-May) of fiscal year 2015 have jumped to 162,151 units, up...
ICCI calls for urgent measures to achieve economic growth targets
ISLAMABAD; Showing concerns over the below-target performance of key sectors of economy as shown by the Economic Survey for 2014-15,...
