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KARACHI: Three day international plastics and packaging industry exhibition will start from September 1 (Tuesday) here at the Karachi Expo...

Slashing rates in int’l markets, loadshedding causing low exports: TDAP

ISLAMABAD: Standing Committee on Commerce held a meeting with the officials of Trade development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to discuss...

Trade exhibitions increase business interaction: Dastgir

LAHORE: Federal Commerce Minister Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan has said mega trade exhibitions will help in increasing business to business...

Pakistan to export mango, kinnow to Belarus: Bosan

MULTAN: Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Sikandar Hayat Bosan said Pakistan would export mangoes and kinnows to...

Finance minister chairs meeting on IT issues

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar chaired a meeting at the Finance Division on devising a mechanism...

Govt working to tackle energy crisis: Iqbal

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal has said that government was working to overcome energy crisis and...

Projects to start producing energy by 2017: Shahbaz

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif Friday said the government had diverted all available resources to accomplish energy projects...

Dar stresses need for enhancing exports

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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar chaired the Monetary and Fiscal Policies Coordination Board meeting here....

Country to have another oil refinery after Byco

ISLAMABAD: A private sector petroleum company Trans-Asia is going to set up a refinery having capacity to develop 100,000 barrels...

Gwadar Port to be connected with railway network

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways is focussing on connecting Gwadar Port with railways network and establishing new dry port at Havelian to...

SBP’s reserves decrease by $157m to $13.45b

KARACHI: The liquid foreign exchange reserves held by the central bank have declined by $157 million or 1.1 per cent...

$218m US-funded project: Discos’ earnings up by $400m in five years

ISLAMABAD: The total revenues generated by the power distribution companies’ (Discos) have increased by over $400 million during the last...

Trade Policy 2015-18 to focus on value addition to boost exports: Commerce ministry

ISLAMABAD: Strategic Trade Policy Framework (STPF) 2015-18 would focus on value addition to boost exports of the country to get...

World Bank launches $75m project to support militancy-hit families in Fata

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has launched a $75 million project to help the people affected by militancy in Federally-Administered Tribal...

Shahbaz ‘again’ blames PTI sit-in for halt in Chinese investment