Business

Gap between local and imported fertiliser drops to Rs50 per bag.

Govt asks for time to hold ECC meeting to resolve the issue.

Oil marketer asked to open letters of credit for getting deliveries.

Advice at cross purposes with anti-subsidy rhetoric of Bretton-Woods institutions and the US.

Over 2 million subscribers added in March 2012.

Indian institutions interested in taking stake in Pakistani bourses.

Petrol bucks the trend and rises amid increase in CNG outages.

Govt’s fiscal policy is a mess, because it effectively has no real energy policy.

KSE’s benchmark 100-share index jumps 100 points.

Average sale jumps Rs5.6 million following security improvements.

Firm once again tries to double funds provided by provincial govt.

Pakistan likely to face a 30% drop in mango production.

Asad Umar addresses problems of Pakistani agricultural sector.

Move, if approved, will pave the way for increase in tax rates to finance IP pipeline.

Power tariff to be increased by Rs1.20 per unit soon.

Move to affect govt’s creditworthiness; IPPs threaten to take legal action.

Claim products were of substandard quality.

Minister for diverting more gas to power producers.

PTCL to act as a gateway for all traffic.

KSE’s benchmark 100-share index falls 104 points.

Conference discusses improving productivity through efficient supply chain.

United Energy Group expresses interest in the project.

Aircraft maker Sukhoi hopes to tap local aviation market.

Two plants of 2,000MW capacity will be purchased from China.

Will provide Rs78.2b for power projects, PEPCO to arrange another Rs86.03b.

Growth is around 1% higher than previous estimate of 2.8%.

Report says average internet connection speed stood at 741kpbs during fourth quarter of 2011.

FBR also proposes withholding tax on manufacturing to generate Rs100b extra.

Orient to expand in the power sector, intends to enter oil and gas sector to help the country meet its energy needs.

Directs authorities to address industrialists’ problems.

True potential of industry yet to be exploited.

KSE’s benchmark 100-share index ends range-bound.

New conditions make it difficult to invest in capacity expansion.

Say implementation of proposals will ruin local industry.

Commercial, regulatory functions separated.

Joint venture projects to generate up to 2,500MW.

Two boring machines costing Rs16b were not initially endorsed by a consultant.

Latter to be able to invest in govt papers through commercial banks.

Bharatmatrimony.com filed a complaint over AdWords' sale of its keywords to other matchmaking rivals.

Growth can be gauged by looking at a country’s labour policy.

Fertiliser plants on SNGPL network have received less gas than other sectors contrary to the government’s own policy

Micro Private Equity involves creating new businesses for the underprivileged.

Need to to meet the electricity deficit which has soared up to 15 percent of the total peak demand of 19,000MW.

Pakistan is one of the very few countries which has the potential to become self-sufficient in energy, food & water.

App World opens doors in Pakistan but not entirely.

Company argues its board has full powers to make rules of operations.

He is accused of ignoring directives from presidency, PM secretariat.

Industry bemoans authority’s apathy, park land encroached upon.

Plans to take off in the next three months.

Company insists the Jhimpir project is not polluting Keenjhar Lake.