Business

Instructs Privatisation Commission to prepare for sale of shares of three commercial banks and OGDCL.

Jewellery sector offers to help govt to curb menace.

Extensive crackdown, leakage rectification results in improvement.

Nine-month profit rises 21% YoY.

Looking to attract 50% of financing from private partners.

BoI chief says new regulations, like bankruptcy law, will be introduced .

Favourable trend in agriculture sector pulls DAP off-take.

Calls for necessary changes to be made to curricula.

Special assistant to PM says focus will be on growth .

Benchmark KSE-100 index loses 332 points.

Engro will set up handling facility, bring first consignment by November.

Use of mobile phones could help famers disseminate information regarding cropping, other agricultural practices.

Illegal sale in K-P hurting revenue, different routes used to transport product.

Smuggled, counterfeit tobacco trade accounts for 25% of total consumption in country.

200 truckloads of smuggled goods, including cigarettes, arrive daily.

Over 90% of Pine available in Pakistan comes from Afghanistan.

Higher taxes and loose enforcement only help menace.

The Russian govt has spent billions of dollars trying to prop up its struggling carmakers, including Avtovaz.

Pakistan not prepared for commercial scale farming, say industry officials.

Looks at strong consumer demand for mobile devices, programmes.

Licencing examination will ensure trained and certified professionals.

PAAPAM chief expresses concern, seeks its early finalisation.

Business forum chief says Pakistan’s location could prove crucial.

Start of earnings season led to stock-specific activity.

Govt fails to enforce import quota set for plastic manufacturers.

The three-year project is aimed at training 75 TVET instructors from seven districts of Pakistan.

660MW to be generated from project’s first phase.

Say fair distribution of resources can ease energy crisis.

Rough year for local giant as profit dips 66%.

Dutch envoy says bilateral trade should be much higher than current level.

Benchmark KSE-100 index falls 61.45 points.

Official’s appointment as PM’s special assistant on aviation welcomed.

Write-up believes process could help bring economy on track.

Funds will be given for completing Kalat-Quetta-Chaman section of highway.

Fastest pace of growth recorded in the last eight years, SBP data reveals.

The amount is expected to be released by February 6.

Reserves held by the SBP decreased to $3.322 billion against $3.467 billion a week earlier.

Show to feature products from countries across the region.

Project will be carried out in collaboration with MoST.

Despite poor sales, company earns Rs394m in first nine months of FY14.

Benchmark KSE-100 index rises 49 points.

Air-conditioning giant sets sight on retail market.

Malakand tunnel and energy sector in company’s vision.

FBR loses billions of rupees every month, say industry officials.

Domestic giants win most of the licences, foreign firms shy away.

Preparations under way to develop structure for gas purchase.

Requests FBR to provide details of all vehicles stuck at port.

“PAAPAM does not want Pakistan to become a market for Indian finished goods,” says PAAPAM Chairman.

Believe it will step up exports and create job opportunities.

Islamic insurance industry receives a blow, CEO terms battle ‘pointless’ .