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Repositioning ahead of Afghan endgame
With two key federal cabinet decisions — going ahead with a government-to-government deal with Iran on gas pipeline and the…
Lacklustre trade policy
The trade development initiatives announced in the second three-year strategic trade policy framework for the fiscal 2012-15 have drawn a…
Healthy corporate earnings
The first of the big ticket companies to unveil financial figures for the current reporting season was Fauji Fertiliser Company…
Family budget in transformational phase
Adjusting to demands of times, an average family across the income spectrum has been shuffling its spending priorities. The weight…
Unfair pricing of perishable items
Growing involvement of investors in production and marketing of fruits and vegetables has emerged as an important factor in the…
Guava, the apple of tropics
GUAVA is the fruit of the tropics. It grows luxuriantly in Pakistan and occupies third position among major fruits grown…
Regional response to disasters
THE people of South Asia share many common basins, rivers, waters, geography, ecology and risks to natural disasters.
There is…
Logistic hurdles in kinnow export
PAKISTANI kinnows may have a bad export season this year. Out of usual target of around 400,000 tonnes, the final…
Building strength and efficiency of domestic commerce
Nine institutional initiatives have been provided in the Strategic Trade Policy Framework 2012-15 to promote domestic commerce.
Despite having a…
World economies
Euro-zone
According to the IMF latest report, the near-term outlook for the euro area has been revised downward. Activity is…
Law for chambers of women, small traders
THE approval of Trade Organisation Bill 2013 by the joint meeting of National Assembly and Senate Standing Committees on commerce…
Financial performance improves
THE total assets of State Bank of Pakistan increased by 4.6 per cent during 2011-2012, according to the central bank’s…
Hike in cellphone rates
THE Indian mobile phone subscriber, who has been pampered all these years with low tariffs offered by service providers desperate…
Ending ‘Too big to fail’ policy
The financial institutions deemed too big to fail were at the epicenter of the 2007–09 financial crisis. Previously thought of…
BD to protect indigenous products
THE Bangladesh government is set to pass the geographical indication law in the first parliamentary session of the year to…
Concerns about Japan’s move to weaken yen
WHEN Japan set its inflation target and declared a change in its monetary regime for a weak yen, global investors…
Crumbling irrigation system
The country’s irrigation water supply system is more or less faced with the same issues — low tariff, line losses,…
Level playing field for exchange firms
The ministry of finance and the State Bank is expected to soon revamp Pakistan Remittances Initiative for providing exchange companies…
Road trade disruption losses with India
The temporary suspension of trade between India and Pakistan, following the escalation of tension after minor border clashes in the…
A case for solar electricity
The only solution to the chronic electricity shortages in Pakistan lies in harnessing the obvious potential of solar electricity created…
