Business & Economy

Tokyo, Feb 9 (AFP/APP): Japan’s Toyota left its annual forecasts unchanged on Thursday despite ongoing disruption from the global chip shortage, as the cheaper yen offsets the impact of soaring materials prices. The world’s top-selling automaker, which reshuffled its executive line-up last month, is still […]

ISLAMABAD, Feb 8 (APP): Over 1.2 million olive plants will be planted during the current spring tree plantation campaign across the country to strengthen the national efforts to enhance the output of domestic edible oil for reducing the reliance on the imported commodity as well […]

ISLAMABAD, Feb 07 (APP):Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Muhammad Ishaq Dar on Tuesday commended the support of World Bank in flood recovery, and rehabilitation efforts and assured full support to the WB-funded development projects in Pakistan. The minister said this while meeting Regional Director […]

Rawalpindi (PNI) Fauji Fertilizer Company (FFC), held its First Corporate Briefing for the year 2023, as part of its best corporate governance practices. FFC has been recognized by Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) as first amongst Top 25 Companies consecutively for 12 years attributed to its […]

Lahore, Feb 6 (Online): In compliance to the directives of Honourable Prime Minister of Pakistan, H.E. Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and Federal Minister for Energy, H.E. Engr. KhurramDastgir Khan, the National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC) has completed the construction work of 29 km […]

Islamabad ()PNI Pakistan Single Window (PSW) has begun rolling out the Lab Management System (LMS) for electronic processing of lab test requests initiated by the government agencies for clearance of imports/exports. In the first phase laboratories associated with the Department of Plant Protection (DPP) are […]

ISLAMABAD, FEB 02 (Online): IMF has sought details of assets of politicians, bureaucrats and other functionaries from Pakistan The third round of talks was held between Pakistan and IMF and IMF program and transparency system came under discussion therein. IMF said that assets of all […]

KARACHI, Feb 02 (APP): Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar on Thursday called for elimination of interest-based system from the country, said, a bank which only had 100 branches in the past, after introduction of Islamic consumer banking, now successfully operating with over 1000 branches. […]

ISLAMABAD, Feb 2 (APP): Finland Ambassador to Pakistan Hannu Ripatti on Thursday said that the Finland government has planned to establish direct trade activities with Pakistan by removing third-party involvement. Talking to APP, he said the Business Council of Finland will host a business summit […]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – February 1 (ONLINE) Saudi National Bank reported a 46.7 percent increase in net profit in 2022 to SR18.6 billion ($4.96 billion) from SR12.7 billion in 2021, spurred by higher operating income and a decline in provisions for expected credit losses. The […]