Jazz pledges PKR 1.2 billion support towards Covid19 relief efforts
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's largest digital service provider, Jazz, a VEON group company, has pledged PKR 1.2 billion support towards Covid19 relief. The support...
EU nations struggle to bridge bitter split over ‘coronabonds’
EU finance ministers struggled early Wednesday to bridge differences on how to rebuild their economies after the coronavirus, with Germany refusing Italy's...
Oil rebounds as hopes grow for output cut deal
Oil prices rebounded Wednesday as traders jockey for position ahead of a key producers' meeting this week aimed at cutting output to...
WhatsApp tightens sharing limits to curb virus misinformation
SAN FRANCISCO: WhatsApp on Tuesday placed new limits on message forwarding as part of an effort to curb the spread of misinformation...
SBP, FBR directed to provide SMEs’ data to Finance Ministry
ISLAMABAD: In a bid to provide some breathing space to small industries which have been largely affected by the lockdown, the Finance...
The dollar is still king, even as coronavirus slams US
The coronavirus outbreak in the United States has caused millions of people to lose their jobs and brought the economy to its...
Domestic tractors assembling shrinks by 37.22%
Tractors manufacturing in the country during the first seven months of the current financial year decreased by 37.22 percent as compared to...
FATF extends action plan deadline for Pakistan till October
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has decided to extend the deadline for Pakistan to achieve all 27 points of its action...
Dollar soars to Rs168 intraday
KARACHI: The rupee continued with its upward trend against Greenback, reaching an intraday high of Rs168 in the interbank on Tuesday.
The trend...
PSO losses, relending policy and TAPI on ECC meeting agenda
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) would meet today (Wednesday) to take up an 11-point agenda, including the constitution of a 'price...
Shipping industry seeks free movement of crews to keep trade moving
LONDON: Ships must be allowed to change overworked and exhausted crews to help keep trade flowing as coronavirus lockdowns have shut many...
Consumers get some breaks, but layoffs keep coming
The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Tuesday related to...
DRAP bars unlicenced companies from making sanitisers
The Drugs Regulatory Authority of Pakistan has said that the manufacturers with valid drug manufacturing licence (DML) or valid enlistment certificates (Form-6)...
Govt set to take sugar cartels by the horns
–Firdous says CCP will be reformed to counter cartelisation in sugar industry, artificial food crisis
–Says govt mulling sugar export after ‘bumper sugarcane...
PTI govt’s debt surges Rs9.2tr to Rs33.4tr
ISLAMABAD: A whopping increase of Rs9,209 billion has been witnessed in government debt during the first 20 months of the Pakistan Tehreek...