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Better communication: PTA making efforts to improve customer service
Platform expected to register and resolve complaints.
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GSP Plus: Textile ministry to train cotton growers
Farmers to be introduced to modern technology for cultivation.
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Work on Thar coal project finally starts
It is not just talk this time, says SECMC CEO.
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Telecom sector in the limelight
Govt pinning investment hopes ahead of spectrum auction, says report.
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Market watch: Index edges up in listless trading
Benchmark KSE-100 index rises 12 points.
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Trade: A GSP Plus for Sialkot
German ambassador says efforts would be made to help Pakistani exporters.
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SBP reserves dip further to $3.1b, data reveals
Analysts expect position to improve before end of fiscal year.
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Cut down: OGRA proposes significant cut in oil prices
Petroleum rates may be reduced by up to Rs5.27 per litre.
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Friendly neighbour: Indian officials cast light on new visa regime
Say restrictions have been eased under the new system.
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State bank governor Yaseen Anwar resigns
Yaseen Anwar's resignation from SBP will come into effect from January 31. Acting governor to be appointed on Friday.
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Economic growth: US economy grows by 3.2% in fourth quarter
Despite a partial government shutdown, US economy grew by 3.2%, following more robust growth of 4.1% in third quarter.
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Troubled entity: Govt undecided over Steel Mills privatisation
Considering technical audit to determine status of machinery and plants.
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Iranian gas: IP could get back its lost ‘I’ to become IPI again
Indian FM Salman Khurshid says project will compel India and Pakistan work on long-term ties.
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Pakistan can play a leading role: Canadian High Commissioner
Says opening up trade with India can help country boost development.
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Network expansion: PTCL to invest in largest submarine cable system
AAE-1 to be completed by 2016 to meet Pakistan’s future ICT needs.
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Thar block: Court grants stay against coal mining contract
Reliance Consultancy challenges award of open cast lignite mine contract.
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Corporate results: FFC sees slight dip in profit
Company ends year with fresh dividend.
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Corporate results: Honda Atlas all set for second profitable year
Posts net profit of Rs441m as sales set to pick up further.
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Market watch :See-saw index falls at day end
Benchmark KSE-100 index falls 58.10 points.
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Spectrum auction: Information Memorandum underway
Auction preparations on track, says PTA.
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Textile: Take EU conventions seriously, advise experts
Warn of losing out on GSP Plus if progress is not made.
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KSE’s invitation: Government securities to be traded directly
TREC holders to deal in market as primary dealers.
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Management change: Cupola sells KFC Pakistan to Delicious Holdings
Belton replaces Rangoonwala as CEO, sources put transaction value at $20m .
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Regional trade: Indians to make presence felt in Lahore
Delegation of industry officials to attend two-day event.
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Theft, leakage: SSGC cuts loss for first time in 5 years
During its campaign to bring down the loss, SSGC identified 632 theft cases and disconnected their supply in 2012-13.
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Keyal khwar Hydropower project wins clearance
On completion, the project will provide 426 million units of low-cost hydel electricity to the national grid.
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Finance: Impetus for Islamic banking getting a push
SBP focuses on promotion of Shariah-based banking.
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Cooperation: A meaty promise of help from Argentina
Ambassador says his country can provide end-to-end supply chain solutions.
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Market watch: Index falls to correction
Benchmark KSE-100 index goes down 16.87 points.
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Value-added lives: Micro insurance for macro insecurity
Jubilee Life Insurance looks to make sector sustainable.
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Gul Ahmed stitches its way to a handsome profit
Earnings rise 233% as analysts expect an even better second half.
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Work begins on scrapping tax concessions through SROs
Dar says govt will provide protection where required.
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Unjustified revenue: New fertiliser plants make billions on disputed claims
Increase prices on basis of gas cess not applicable to them.
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Prominent Bitcoin entrepreneur charged with money laundering
Vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation has been charged by US prosecutors with conspiring to commit money laundering.
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Agriculture: ‘Oil seeds, pulses are cash crops’
UAF VC says agriculture sector in Pakistan lack educated manpower.
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Privatisation process: Govt to sell assets in sole offering
Instructs Privatisation Commission to prepare for sale of shares of three commercial banks and OGDCL.
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Stop smuggling of gold, not ban its import: Chand
Jewellery sector offers to help govt to curb menace.
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Clean up: Un-accounted for gas reduced, says SNGPL
Extensive crackdown, leakage rectification results in improvement.
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Still growing: Profits rev up for Atlas Honda
Nine-month profit rises 21% YoY.
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NHA banks on private sector for highway projects
Looking to attract 50% of financing from private partners.
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Ease of doing business: Govt vows to enhance ranking to 80th in two years
BoI chief says new regulations, like bankruptcy law, will be introduced .
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Going up: Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim posts rise in earnings
Favourable trend in agriculture sector pulls DAP off-take.
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Business needs: Business education must meet top standards, says President
Calls for necessary changes to be made to curricula.
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National carrier: Fear no lay-off, government tells PIA employees
Special assistant to PM says focus will be on growth .
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Market watch: Dull start to the week as stocks go into correction mode
Benchmark KSE-100 index loses 332 points.
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LNG import: SSGC, ECC likely to award $1.4b contract today
Engro will set up handling facility, bring first consignment by November.
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Misinformed agriculturalists
Use of mobile phones could help famers disseminate information regarding cropping, other agricultural practices.
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Despite ‘intelligence wing’ cigarettes continue to move in and out
Illegal sale in K-P hurting revenue, different routes used to transport product.
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Asia-11 study: Pakistan, along with Vietnam, top consumer of illicit cigarettes
Smuggled, counterfeit tobacco trade accounts for 25% of total consumption in country.
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Curtailment of smuggling a hard nut to crack
200 truckloads of smuggled goods, including cigarettes, arrive daily.

















































