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Positive signals: a sigh of relief
THE troubled business community wants immediate opening of supply routes for NATO containers, fearing high economic and trade risks from…
The price of ‘generosity’
THE federal government has started to feel the pinch of the tilt in the 7th National Finance Commission Award towards…
Punjab’s lost growth momentum
PUNJAB’S regional economy has increased at a much slower pace than ‘the rest of Pakistan’ over last four financial years…
Adhoc-ism fails mango export project
PAKISTAN’S efforts to export mango to high-end markets seem to have gone sour. For the last three years, it has…
Combating water pollution
INCREASED use of irrigation water supplies and agro-chemicals, coupled with its irrational use, is causing significant water pollution problems.
Water…
Reduced cotton cultivation in Sindh
COTTON sowing, about to end in Sindh, has been affected by seed germination, water rotation programme and a drop in…
Issues in wheat harvesting
THE unusually cold, rainy/cloudy and windy weather in April and May in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has delayed wheat harvesting in various…
Industrialists speak up
DISILLUSIONED with the governments’ policies over the past four years, industrialists have now stepped up efforts to persuade policymakers to…
World commodities
Oil:
THE International Energy Agency in its Oil Market Report April 2012, forecasts global oil demand at 89.9 million barrels…
Conflicting interests
THE CNG pump owners are worried over the risks they face from what they see as the government shifts its…
Looming economic crisis
A PLUNGING rupee and nose-diving stock market indices have brought back fears of a return of the economic crisis of…
Time for culture change
AS the widespread public criticism indicates, the country’s governance is deteriorating. And if the multiple crises are any indication, cultural…
Stimulating investment
THE country’s economy cannot come out of sluggishness without some out-of-the-box solutions with focus on encouraging investment in value-addition and…
India’s evolving export strategy
WITH the rapid thawing of India-Pakistan relations, it is possible that before too long India could become Pakistan’s largest trading…
Rise in commodity futures’ trading
IN March this year, the Pakistan Mercantile Exchange listed wheat futures for trading to provide stakeholders of physical wheat market…
Bajaj’s premature investment treaty idea
SAYING trade and investment go hand in hand in today’s global investment scenario, India’s leading businessman Rahul Bajaj has proposed…
Targeting growth in hard times
WHILE the national eco-nomy is not out of the woods as it faces persisting domestic and external problems, the government…
Regulators chasing brokers on the run
THE Karachi Stock Exchange issued a statement on Friday which caused considerable interest, particularly among the small shareholders.
It said:…
Decline in bank advances to deposit ratio
HEAVY investment by banks in risk-free government securities has widened the gap between the rates of growth in deposits and…
Stocks plunge by 373 points
THE shares at the Karachi stock market plunged by 373 points or 2.6 per cent over the week to close…
