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Czech firm to provide required material, machinery and technology.

Law does not restrict portfolio investment from India.

Tokyo agrees to finance power houses of the 4,500MW project.

During fiscal 2012 government issued new guarantees worth Rs177 billion or 0.86% of the estimated GDP during FY12.

Focuses on futures contracts, appoints AKD as market maker.

Dams to be built by joint WAPDA, PPIB, Korean consortium.

Domestic market takes cue from rising Saudi contract prices.

Indian terminal will receive gas, supply to Pakistan through pipeline.

High short-term borrowing and gas shortage haunts the country’s largest independent power producer.

Benchmark KSE-100 index falls 83 points.

Govt plan to curtail spiralling debt fails to achieve objectives.

Govt owned banks also seem helpless in recovering defaulted amounts.

Pakistan plans to export 1m tons from surplus stock.

India maintains amendments in construction plan can address reservations.

Bilateral investment treaty under discussion opens all sectors to foreign investment, including defence.

Bank confirms investigations by UK's SFO has started an investigation into 2008 transactions with Qatar.

Bureau advocates approving drugs which have been cleared in two out of three most developed countries.

Proposal to be included in Strategic Trade Policy Framework 2012-2015.

Presidents to meet today; project will likely be discussed.

Says preferential treatment will offset country’s losses.

The manufacturer expects to perform better than peers.

Analysts expected the PTA manufacturer to generate profit.

Online classified portal – Dekho.com.pk – releases decade old listings data.

Benchmark KSE-100 index surges 71 points.

Call for resolving debt issue first, PAC summons federal secretaries.

Takaful operators finally break silence over the new rules.

Both agree on clauses dealing with financial, insurance services.

The bank’s total revenue increased by 43% to Rs2.4 billion.

'The majority of defaulters are rich and influential people who are either involved in electricity theft.'

Offers transfer of expertise, technology to counter floods, manage rivers.

Below-average rains boost demand for diesel to bridge energy deficit.

Fragmented dairy industry unable to export due to low yields.

Silos will have capacity to hold 150,000 tons of grain.

Stock exchanges to operate as for-profit, demutualised bodies.

Benchmark KSE-100 index surges 132 points.

Provides guarantees of Rs532b against threshold of Rs413b.

Term ending in September, extension may spark controversy.

Wellhead gas price increased by 60% to attract exploration firms.

The policy is part of India's struggle to provide jobs to its growing army of young people.

Judge may go back over Samsung Galaxy Tab ban in the US.

Technical, legal and financial experts to take part in the two-day meeting.

The share of garments as a percentage of textile exports has remained constant since 2002.

The province gets less gas, but also uses it less efficiently.

Lobbyists for the industry, however, remain firmly in denial, blaming the government instead.

Government continues supplying gas to the biggest companies, at the expense of small businesses.

Shift away from tailored clothes accompanies rise in spending power, convenience shopping.

It employs many, exports a lot, but pays little in taxes and impedes growth of other sectors.

Sector-specific activity resulted in volumes jumping 73%.

Promotion, which ran for one year, concluded with remarkable results in Ramazan this year, says PTCL.

RERA will frame laws governing land market, licensing, registration of agents.