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ISLAMABAD: Commerce Minister Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan has urged textile exporters to derive full benefit from the zero-rating regime of...

Sargodha CB achieve Rs 80m revenue collection target

SARGODHA: Military Land and Cantonments Director General Maj Gen Syed Najam ul Hassan Shah has lauded the efforts of Cantonment...

Pakistan urged to improve tax reforms

LAHORE: TUV Austria’s Executive Director for Bangladesh & Sri Lanka David Embery has said that the Pakistani government must focus...

Draft of new companies’ bill 2016 on cards: Dar

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister, Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar has said that the draft of new companies Bill 2016 had been prepared...

Ahsan for promoting SMEs to boost exports up to $50b per year

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal on Monday called for promoting non-traditional Small and Medium Entrepreneur (SMEs),...

Country’s 4th N-power plant of 340 MW starts operation

ISLAMABAD : The country’s fourth nuclear power plant at Chashma Unit-3 (C-3) with 340 Megawatt (MW) power generation capacity, has...

Railways fetches over Rs 1,487m through auction of scrap

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways has fetched Rs 1487.691 million in last three years through transparent auction of scrap. Giving year wise...

Western route definitely part of CPEC: Sun Weidong

ISLAMABAD: China’s ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong Sunday said the passage going through western part of Pakistan to Gwadar is...

PIA to acquire 8 wide-body aircraft under revival plan

ISLAMABAD: As part of its revival plan Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has decided to increase the number of inland and...

Sindh to start mega projects worth Rs 10b from next month

ISLAMABAD: Sindh Government has decided to issue the tenders of mega projects of the metropolis at a cost of Rs...

CPEC to benefit all of Pakistan: Ahsan

MARDAN: Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal has said China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was for whole of Pakistan,...

Mobilink launches mobile-based agri service

ISLAMABAD: Mobilink is targeting the agriculture sector of Pakistan with launch of the new value added service (VAS), “Ba Khabar...

Hesco cuts off over 200 power connections of Wasa

HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) has cut off over 200 power connections of Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa)...

Growers demand to fix procurement price of IRRI-6 rice at Rs 1,000

HYDERABAD: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) has complained that the support price of IRRI-6 crop of rice has reduced...

8th Pakistan-US TIFA meeting starting from tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: The 8th Pakistan-US Trade & Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council meeting is being held on October 18 (Tuesday) in...

PIA crew being groomed to have a new look

KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) crew members will receive a brand new and uber-polished look by January 2017. A spokesman...

Tax exemptions on import of CPEC equipment criticised

ISLAMABAD: An economic watchdog has criticised the tax exemptions announced by the federal government for the equipment being imported for...

Dar for maintaining fertiliser stock

ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has stressed on the need for maintaining strategic reserves of fertilisers at all times...

Car sales decrease by 13% in 1Q