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Fear these will push up cost of doing business

REAP urges authorities to give priority to agriculture and food security

Dam would benefit everyone and help overcome power crisis, says PBIT chief

Govt to reshuffle top hierarchy of tax machinery; aims to enhance revenue

An official of APCEA informed that the main purpose of the show is to search for new buyers

Remittances amounted to $16.6 billion in the first 11 months of 2014-15

prices of 10 items rose and rates of remaining 35 goods recorded no change

5 major banks disbursed Rs262.9b, performance of 4 Islamic banks termed impressive.

Benchmark 100-share index falls 119.79 points.

Tax policies should be based on the principles of equity and fairness, and must facilitate economic growth

PTA directs telecom operators to stop offering BES from November 30, 2015, onwards

Deal covers more than 200 products, from video games to medical equipment, worth $1.3 trillion in annual global trade

Minister says the republic would focus on its oil and gas, metals and car industries with an eye to exporting to Europ

DFID has also agreed on a revised memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the BISP Secretariat

Foreign exchange reserves held by the SBP had gone up 6.2% in the last week of June

Up 15% due to healthy rise in net interest income

Says perception has not improved despite stabilisation policies

Earnings jump from Rs268m in the June quarter of previous year

Country set to make good on promise to finish the IP pipeline, says Abbasi

Move aimed at integrating different parts of supply chain

Needs too big, lenders too few, say officials

Conference discusses impact of climate change on food security

Jewellers association chief says people making the switch from artificial to real metal

Benchmark KSE 100-share index falls 121.69 points.

Waqar Abbas says initiative will provide an opportunity to broaden his vision.

Farmers need to be trained, told — again and again — about repercussions of their negligence to ensure quality...

Public Sector Enterprises in a more efficient manner and has started implementing a holistic PSEs Reform Strategy

About 1.4 billion Asians were poor and earning less than poverty threshold of $1.25 per day

Remittances amounted to $16.6 billion in the first 11 months of 2014-15

The ratings agency said the forecast was stable, meaning no more changes are expected imminently

Benchmark 100-share index rises 169.02 points.

Order recommended approval with certain conditions.

Prime minister secretariat fails to set a time, decisions pending.

CSF, worker remittances and reduction in oil import bill labelled as reasons

Pakistan Tobacco Company records net profit of Rs4.7b for the first half of 2015

Against Parliament-approved expenditure of Rs525b, ministry releases Rs442b

Project official says fund scarcity, technical glitches slow down work

Industry feels country needs to engage Gulf state with investment in mind

IMF is subject to political pressures, and potentially gives self-serving recommendations

Airline further announces in a few weeks Multan will also join its Pakistan network

Annual inflation in the non-eurozone EU member state was just 0.6% in June

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TV and phone service rose 10% to $3.4 billion, while tablet sign-ups totaled 852,000 in the quarter

We continue to view the current physical surplus as sufficient to drive price lower

Despite being in infancy, the overall size of the segment has come close to $100 million

Second financial institution backed by China as an alternative to WB

Has potential to disrupt market for personal and online payments.

Forum necessary to settle issues and fix prices in the market.

Studies suggest slight uptick in risk of terrorism can lead to reduction in FDI

Funds were not earmarked for Pakistan Railways for coal supply to the plant