Business & Economy

Berlin, Sept 13 (AFP/APP): German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday he wanted to hurry through reforms to the electricity market to ease the pressure on consumers and businesses ahead of the coming European winter. Russia has dwindled supplies of gas to Europe following the invasion […]

KARACHI – September 12 (ONLINE) Former Prime Minister and PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said Monday four months of current government were insufficient to ‘clean up the mess’ created by previous PTI government in four years. Talking to reporters in Karachi on Monday, former PM […]

FAISALABAD, Sep 11 (APP): Agriculture experts have advised the farmers to immediately start cultivation of grams from mid of September and get maximum production. A spokesman for the agriculture department said here on Sunday that the time from mid September to end of November was […]

ISLAMABAD, Sep 11 (APP): Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has so far disbursed over Rs. 23 billion among the flood-hit families in a short span of time under the Flood Relief Cash Assistance, to mitigate the sufferings of flood affected population. Emerged as the most […]

LAHORE, Sep 11 (APP): Pak-India Business Council (PIBC) Chairman Noor Muhammad Kasuri has called upon the governments of Pakistan and India to open trade for benefit of peoples of neighboring countries. Talking to APP here on Sunday, he said that volume of trade between China […]

RAWALPINDI, Sep 11 (APP): Chairman of National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Tariq Malik inaugurated the first-ever NADRA facilitation Desk for the business community at the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI). According to a statement here Sunday, speaking on the occasion, Chairman NADRA […]

ISLAMABAD, Sep 11 (APP):The exports of spices from the country witnessed a decrease of 10.61 percent during the first month of current fiscal year (2022-23) as compared to the corresponding period of last year. Pakistan exported spices worth US $5.090 million during July 2022 as […]

LAHORE, Sep 10 (ONLINE): Despite the resumption of the IMF program, the country is still suffering from serious dollar shortage crisis, as the rupee has cumulatively fallen by more than 4 percent against the greenback during this week, aggravating macroeconomic indicators amidst catastrophic flooding in […]

ISLAMABAD 09 Sep (Online): The rupee, which has been declining for nearly a week, fell by Rs2.76 against the dollar in the interbank market on Friday. The PKR closed at Rs228.18 per dollar, depreciating 1.21 per cent from yesterday’s close. Mettis Global Director Saad bin […]

ISLAMABAD 09 Sep (Online): Inflation measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) clocked in at 42.7 per cent year-on-year (YoY) for the week that ended on September 8, data shared by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed on Friday. Inflation in the preceding week […]