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Proposed: Byco Petroleum to merge with its holding company
Move aimed at integrating different parts of supply chain
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New lender in the region: The importance of AIIB for South Asia
Needs too big, lenders too few, say officials
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Mountain viewpoint: Highlands may become rockier with bad weather
Conference discusses impact of climate change on food security
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Price hits five-year low: All that glitters could now be gold
Jewellers association chief says people making the switch from artificial to real metal
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Market watch: Three-day winning spree stops
Benchmark KSE 100-share index falls 121.69 points.
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Face of the nation: G-B businessmen to represent at Global Entrepreneurship Summit
Waqar Abbas says initiative will provide an opportunity to broaden his vision.
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Ensuring quality checks
Farmers need to be trained, told — again and again — about repercussions of their negligence to ensure quality...
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Action plan: Improving ‘doing business’ ranking
Public Sector Enterprises in a more efficient manner and has started implementing a holistic PSEs Reform Strategy
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Saarc meeting: Delegation leaves for Bhutan
About 1.4 billion Asians were poor and earning less than poverty threshold of $1.25 per day
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Currency: Rupee stable against dollar
Remittances amounted to $16.6 billion in the first 11 months of 2014-15
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Up two notches: S&P raises Greece’s credit rating
The ratings agency said the forecast was stable, meaning no more changes are expected imminently
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market watch : Index roars up in style after Eid
Benchmark 100-share index rises 169.02 points.
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US regulators back $49b AT&T-DirecTV megadeal
Order recommended approval with certain conditions.
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Eight months on: Food security commission yet to hold first meeting
Prime minister secretariat fails to set a time, decisions pending.
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2014-15: Current account deficit shrinks by $850m
CSF, worker remittances and reduction in oil import bill labelled as reasons
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Corporate results: Tobacco giant makes Rs1 million per hour in profit
Pakistan Tobacco Company records net profit of Rs4.7b for the first half of 2015
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Compensating for shortfall: Development budget spending gets slashed by 15%
Against Parliament-approved expenditure of Rs525b, ministry releases Rs442b
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Neelum Jhelum project: Deadline after deadline, PM wants to know final completion date
Project official says fund scarcity, technical glitches slow down work
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Black gold: Pakistan should dig deeper after sanction lift on Iran
Industry feels country needs to engage Gulf state with investment in mind
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The IMF’s self-serving agenda
IMF is subject to political pressures, and potentially gives self-serving recommendations
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Qatar Airways launches services in two more Pakistani cities
Airline further announces in a few weeks Multan will also join its Pakistan network
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Monetary policy: Hungary cuts interest rate to record low
Annual inflation in the non-eurozone EU member state was just 0.6% in June
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Stocks : UBS expectation pulls down Tesla
Rated three stars out of five for his stock recommendations on Tesla, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine
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Better-than-expected: Verizon profit beats estimates
TV and phone service rose 10% to $3.4 billion, while tablet sign-ups totaled 852,000 in the quarter
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Prices drop amid concerns of ‘Iran’s return’
We continue to view the current physical surplus as sufficient to drive price lower
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E-commerce growth: Proving to be a steady breadwinner
Despite being in infancy, the overall size of the segment has come close to $100 million
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Asian establishments: BRICS bank launches in Shanghai, to work with AIIB
Second financial institution backed by China as an alternative to WB
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Digital money: Paypal jumps 5.42% in first trades after spinoff
Has potential to disrupt market for personal and online payments.
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Growers and exporters: REAP demands establishment of ‘rice board’
Forum necessary to settle issues and fix prices in the market.
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Driving away foreign investment with deadly attacks
Studies suggest slight uptick in risk of terrorism can lead to reduction in FDI
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Coal-based energy: Delay in financing slows down Jamshoro power project
Funds were not earmarked for Pakistan Railways for coal supply to the plant
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Pakistan Railways prepares for tougher challenges ahead
Hopes to earn better revenues, focuses mainly on freight operations
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Eighth review of Extended Fund Facility: Pakistan, IMF to meet next week
Will discuss possibility of bi-annual reviews instead of one every three months
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Toshiba president, top executives quit over $1.2 bn scandal
Company says Chairman Masashi Muromachi will take over as president in the interim
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New $100 bn BRICS bank opens in China to challenge US-led lenders
The "New Development Bank" has been viewed as a challenge to Washington-based institutions
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Cellphones - a gateway to economic progress
UIG chief links society’s growth with mobile phone usage.
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On the clock: Apple Watch could need time: analysts
Three months since launch, sales continue to plummet.
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Exploiting Thar reserves: Establishment of coal ministry suggested
Despite having large coal deposits, they remain unexploited to date
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Cleaning up: Default by broker leaves many problems for regulators
Victims ask authorities to provide some relief regarding CGT collection
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Petroleum ministry seeks subsidy injection into gas utilities
Delay in gas price revision has pushed accumulated losses of companies to Rs62b
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Farmers ask govt to devise formula for fertiliser subsidy
Fear Rs20b subsidy may remain unspent as happened last year
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Pakistan struggling to avoid ban on mango exports
Three consignments already intercepted in Europe in the ongoing season
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Federally funded: Despite resource constraints, govt adds 366 new projects
All projects will be delayed and costs will escalate
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Irregularities: Toshiba bosses blamed for scandal
The accounting irregularities are believed to have affected its mainstay infrastructure
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Bullion: China’s gold stash rises almost 60%
US Federal Reserve to hike interest rates by the end of the year
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Food prices: Angry French farmers block town
Retailers and food industry heads promised to raise prices of meat and dairy after a meeting with farmers last month
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Stagnant exports
Now that govt has averted a balance of payments crisis , it can get down to increasing the export base
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Needed: A miracle on the Indus
We mustn't be afraid of private companies getting bigger; rather, govt must support them in meeting their targets
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Pakistan begins work on 700-km pipeline to import LNG from China
Chinese funds will benefit Pakistan and allow it to complete its Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline project
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A pro-growth strategy without fiscal stimulus
For Pakistan to be competitive in world economy, its private sector needs to be able to compete on its own strength