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InfoTech to help companies with Automated Meter Reading
InfoTech is helping SECO and Kuwait Electric Company with their upcoming Automated Meter Reading (AMR) solution.
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Can transit trade accord give benefits?
Pakistan and Afghanistan after a long series of negotiations have signed a ‘record note’ for revised transit...
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Is the rupee undervalued?
The rupee is undervalued by at least 34 per cent, according to The Economist’s most recent calculations.
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Postal bully
Come August 10 and Ali Shah will be back to the Pakistan Post office branch on Sharae Faisal to send money back home.
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Community outsourcing
Community outsourcing or crowdsourcing is an ingenious idea that has revolutionised Google Maps and Wikipedia.
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Talking Business
The government’s list of difficulties didn’t get any shorter this past week.
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Frozen food producers vie for local market
Processed and frozen food producers are vying to grab a bigger slice of the huge domestic market.
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To have debt or not to have debt
Every now and then we read statements in newspapers and blogs that Pakistan’s economic situation is not good.
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Faisalabad powerlooms remain shut, workers on strike
More than a 100,000 powerlooms in Faisalabad remained shut for a fifth consecutive day.
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SECP committee’s recommendations on margin trading made public
Recommendations on the upcoming margin trading product have been made public by SECP.
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Market goes up ahead of KSE board meeting
The stock market ended on a positive note with the KSE-100 gaining 67.18 points to end at 10,296.
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Discount rate expected to stay the same at 12.5 per cent
35 fund managers were surveyed to see what changes they expected in the interest rate in the next bimonthly policy.
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Shareholders to benefit from acquisition: Netsol
NetSol Technologies Limited has said its decision to acquire subsidiaries will improve overall shareholders' wealth.
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Sindh at odds with Centre over tax on services
The Sindh government has expressed its displeasure over federal government’s failure to discuss tax related issues.
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Karachi industrial estates to get four sewage treatment plants
The Government of Sindh is set to establish four effluent treatment plants in five industrial zones of Karachi.
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Ashraf to visit Iran
Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf will visit Iran next month for further deliberations.
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Block 5 to start producing electricity in December
Dr Samar Mubarakmand has entered the race to find a permanent solution to the looming energy crisis.
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Code for self-regulation of competition introduced
A Voluntary Competition Compliance Code was introduced to promote individuals to correct their own violations.
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Double taxation on services?
Provincial governments have levied a 17 per cent General Sales Tax on certain services, in addition to the FED.
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Automated clearance system to stay for two more months
PaCCS will continue to operate during the next two months during which the government would decide its fate.
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SECP encourages online submission of documents
The Sixth Schedule to the Companies Ordinance has been revised to encourage online submission of documents.
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PC says time favourable for OGDC bonds
The Privatisation Commission has said the time is quite favourable for floating an equity-linked instrument.
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Stocks close in the red but volumes increase
The stock market showed mixed behaviour as the index moved in a range of 128 points before closing in the red zone.
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Tax collections could go up by Rs500 billion
The tax revenue collected by Pakistan could go up by Rs500 billion if the tax system is improved.
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Rupee strengthens
The rupee ended firmer at 85.45/55 to the dollar, compared with Tuesday’s close of 85.52/58 amid lack of import payments.
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Govt revises protectionist policy stance on PTA
Earnings of Lotte PTA Pakistan are expected to take a serious hit due to a reduction in the import duty on PTA.













































