Business

Urges businesses to provide benefit to low-income earners.

Suggest forming committees to tap sector potential.

Funds to be utilised for repair, rehabilitation of power units.

Aim to finalise second phase of free trade agreement.

PPIB working on hydropower, coal projects.

Six-month papers attract most of the investment.

Cotton prices shot up to another peak at Rs13,000 per maund.

Pakistan’s exports during February stood at $2.16 billion, while imports were recorded at $3.05 billion.

Industrialists losing export orders, foreign exchange.

World Cup provides an opportunity to companies to make a quick buck.

Trading volume surges to 107 million shares.

Shaikh comes up with a carrot and stick policy for tax officials, asks to launch crackdown on 700,000 tax evaders.

Lower food prices help ease inflation.

Urbanisation an emerging challenge for the agriculture sector: Haq.

Move comes as part of bid to curb under-valuation, under-invoicing

Fatima Fertiliser received the green light to issue American Depository Receipts ADR in the United States.

Lack of private sector interaction limiting business.

Warning letters, show-cause notice issued.

Performance in February depicts initial signs of recovery.

Trade volume drops to a meagre 54 million shares.

1,235-km-long high transmission lines already installed.

Amount is part-payment of the total promised by government.

Pakistan enters global financial market after a gap of four years

Telecom development agency to take on leadership role in regional dialogue.

No decision reached on procurement programme either.

IMF asks for more action before it can issue ‘letter of comfort’.

Islamabad attempts to keep fiscal deficit within IMF guidelines.

Karachi Chamber calls on Turkey to scrap customs duties on textile imports

CEMS Pakistan Pvt Limited has organised the event.

CCRI needs Rs500,000 to restore water pumping system.

GlaxoSmithKline Pakistan Limited’s net profit rose marginally to Rs1.06 billion for the year ended December 31, 2010.

Becomes first Pakistani company to trade on US over-the-counter market .

KSE-100 index falls 25 points.

Services restored after fire in battery room.

Price reaches Rs12,500 on speculation over flood losses.

Turkish ship’s generation capacity increases to 332MW.

Unfavourable weather reduces production.

Planning Commission deputy chairman says over-regulation of the market has caused bad management of economy.

Unrest in Afro-arab world cited as reason.

Board aims to raise tax-to-GDP ratio, stop under-invoicing.

Attock Refinery and National Refinery least affected.

Bank to also launch Takaful business before year-end.

When it comes to energy, it is time for Sindh to cast off its traditional role as the smaller province.

Pakistan has one of the lowest tax-to-gross domestic product ratios at 9.3 per cent due to widespread tax evasion.

As we enter the third millennium, concern over safety in the aviation industry is stronger than ever.

RIM might introd­uce its BlackB­erry messen­ger - likely its most valuab­le servic­e - to its compet­itors’ phones.

Asian nations with a wary eye on Middle East uprisings are doling out subsidies.

The debate on whether open source software is a boon or a bane intensifies as Android outsells all smartphone OSs.

First phase of reforms project to be completed by 2012.

Discounted tariffs on calls to India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.