Archive for  August 2004
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A 46-member Federal cabinet comprising 26 ministers, 20 ministers of state and three special assistants is expected, to be announced in phases starting from Wednesday, reliable sources told Business Recorder here on Monday. The sources
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In the fiscal year 2003-04 the inflow of remittances from overseas Pakistanis amounted to 3,871.56 million dollars, including 45.42 million dollars through profit in Pakistani rupees of Foreign Exchange Bearer Certificates (FEBCs) and Foreign Currency
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SRO 735 (1) 2004, issued on the recommendations of the budget anomaly committee has, instead of facilitation, come hard on papersack manufacturing industry. The industry wanted immediate reversal of the new duty structure wherein duty
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The automotive industry as a whole is showing robust growth on the back of national economic recovery. The sales of vehicles have been further boosted by easy access to bank loans and lease finance at
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The automotive industry as a whole is showing robust growth on the back of national economic recovery. The sales of vehicles have been further boosted by easy access to bank loans and lease finance at
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More than 0.3 million Afghans have returned this year under the UN Refugee Agency's voluntary repatriation programme taking the total assisted to return since 2002 to more than 2.2 million. According to UNHCR, the desirous
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When the Free Trade Area agreements with Saarc nations and Gulf Co-operation Council are finalised, Pakistan will have the pivotal role of a bridge between South Asia and the oil producing Gulf countries. The negotiations
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Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz spent busy on Monday receiving parliamentarians and senior bureaucrats who visited the Prime Minister House to congratulate him on assumption of the office of prime minister. In the meetings, which took
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The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) said on Monday it has short-listed 10 bidders in response to a tender for the import of 450,000 tonnes of wheat at between $205 and $229 per tonne C&F.
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There was consensus of opinion among scholars and foreign policy experts attending the international conference on 'Human Security: Global and Regional Perspectives' that human security is prerequisite for national security, as national security would become
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