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Authorities are afraid that food prices may increase in coming months due to disruption caused by floods.

Sales have fallen 31.6 per cent in July as prices rose after the government increased the GST to 17 per cent.

Pakistan’s catastrophic floods mean it will miss this year’s 4.5 per cent gross domestic product (GDP) growth target.

Shan Foods has asserted that the PSQCA does not have the expertise to certify the company’s products

The SBP and all offices of SBP Banking Services Corporation will remain closed for public dealing on first Ramazan.

Steel production is expected to increase to 10 million tons by the year 2015 and 20 million tons by 2020.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the key indicator of inflation, likely rose by 12.34 per cent year-on-year in July.

A Cartoon Network survey has revealed that Pakistan’s children have a total spending power of Rs21.45 billion.

Stocks tumbled for the second day running on Tuesday, falling below the 10,000-point level.

A Cartoon Network survey has revealed that Pakistan’s children have a total spending power of Rs21.45 billion.

Lucky Cement Limited has declared a lower-than-expected net profit of Rs3.1 billion, down 31 per cent on yearly basis.

Nearly 55 per cent of the total potential for intra-regional trade in South Asia has not been exploited.

India is set to produce bumper crop of sugar and cotton in 2010-11 part of which is likely to be absorbed be Pakistan.

The LCCI has appealed to the PM and Chief Justice to constitute a high-powered committee to sort out issues.

Hub Power Company’s (Hubco) net profit surged 47 per cent to Rs5.6 billion for fiscal year 2010.

Stocks tumbled on Monday closing marginally above the crucial 10,000-point level.

Oil sales rose 10 per cent in the first month of the current fiscal year when compared with July last year.

The price of sugar has hit Rs72 per kilogramme in the retail markets of Karachi and Lahore.

Supplies of cement all across Pakistan have been disrupted due to excessive flooding in all provinces.

Recent floods have seriously affected the infrastructure of telecommunication services in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Pakistan can earn $15 billion if it identifies the untapped potential of branding sports goods.

Typically, business activity is consolid­ated and evaluated at the end of every quarter or month.

Pakistan is trapped in a vicious cycle of debt and options to come out of it are few.

This is a game changer. The floods may have washed away life and livelihood, infrastructure and crops and we’ll be a

The laws governing provident funds in Pakistan are atrociously unfriendly to investors but that does not mean that

The federal government has recently announced healthy increment for retired personnel.

The cutlery industry has not gone through a technological evolution and most of it is operated independently.

As soon as Ali read the entire message there was no doubt left in his mind that he was in the process of being conned.

FBR has started issuing notices to Hajj and Umra tour operators who have not been filing income tax returns.

Stocks remained dull in Friday’s trading session as investors showed lack of interest and were busy in...

Ten units of Kot Addu Power Company (Kapco) have been shut down after flood water entered the plant premises.

SBP has, in principle, allowed Bank Alfalah to set up an Islamic bank as a subsidiary.

Pakistan Petroleum’s profits went down by 15.8 per cent in the financial year 2010, with a net income of Rs59.9b.

PTA and Cellular Mobile Operators have signed MoUs on infrastructure sharing, a PTA press release stated.

The country’s second largest power producer, Hub Power Company, is expected to announce its 2010 financial results.

The economy is being held hostage by the circular debt crisis, said MD PSO Irfan Qureshi.

The launch of National Development Bonds is being considered by the central government to fund development projects.

Warning letters for possible violations of securities laws were issued to 27 brokers of the Karachi Stock Exchange.

Pakistan State oil and Pakistan Petroleum Limited are expected to announce their earnings for the full fiscal year.