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Manufacturers shifted focus to domestic market due to better prices.

OGRA fixes maximum consumer price at Rs115 per kg.

Consumers are accepting social media as a platform for marketing.

Expert says short sale is tantamount to gambling, as both are driven by speculation.

PEPCO says it makes payments from what it receives from consumers.

KSE’s benchmark 100-share index surges 329 points.

Firm accused of misleading consumers.

Saarc CCI is organising the meeting in collaboration with FNCCI, in partnership with Friedrich Naumann Stiftung.

The alliance got 440 panel votes from total of 638 while the independent candidate secured only six panel votes.

Policy proposes allocation of 2% of GDP by 2020 to focus on sciences as critical areas demanding economic development.

Funds will help improve efficiency, international trade.

To publish ads again for finding a suitable candidate.

Stock market keeps funds under pressure.

Forms committee to probe blocking of funds for gas supply schemes.

Zone will have 300 medium and large-sized units.

Govt allows firms to sell 10% of their product directly.

Anti-trust watchdog collects evidence in raids on offices.

Inflation rises 11.6% in August, according to Federal Bureau of Statistics.

KSE’s benchmark 100-share index jumps 166 points.

Committee discusses unauthorised issuance of CNG licences.

OGRA uses powers recently acquired to impose petroleum levy.

A ray of hope for children of the slums.

Fast track development of new fields for increased supply of gas to solve gas shortage problems.

Railway Colony quarters to be demolished.

Tightening of discount rate by SBP in 2010, and unchanged during 2011, pushed average Kibor up by 140 basis points.

A faction of small traders announces support for KCCI.

Meeting noted prices of daily-use items have declined after Ramazan.

Deal materialised after seven rounds of discussions

Trade volumes fall to a paltry 31.2 million shares.

Plans to hold workshops to boost economic activity.

New name reflects latest identity shift for a company in Pakistan since 1946.

Pakistan has started importing close to 70 trucks of vegetables a day from India to meet demands.

The IMF programme is coming to an end this month and the government has decided not to seek further assistance.

A vegetable vendor says that the rains have caused huge losses to agriculture.

High subsidies and collapse of US giants left the field open.

Local shoe makers have consistently been able to create brands.

Hefty fines have made it cheaper to be honest instead of paying bribes.

Pakistan’s bid to get access for its textile products to the EU was blocked by Delhi.

Requirements for the company’s head differs from those set for other state-owned energy firms.

Marketing is now specialised and complex with more tools available.

Largest broadband service provider imposes data usage limit.

Pakistan says it has no balance of payments crisis and has enough foreign exchange reserves.

Businessmen say textile sector is teetering on the brink due to high input costs and increase in energy, fuel prices.

Case study method to be standardised; admissions standards made uniform.

Promised 1.037 million tons of sugar exists only on paper and factory price expected to shoot up to Rs 90 per Kg.

New policy brings down gas prices, private businesses register protest.

Company plans to keep the same management.

A new breed of always-on computers called Ultrabook being brought in market.

Volumes fall sharply as results season culminates and monsoons hit Karachi.

PSO had stopped supply to Pakistan Railways, at a time when the state-owned company had run out of stock.