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[tooltip text=”PAGE REPORT” gravity=”nw”]‘LPG-Air Mix Plants Being Installed In Balochistan To Provide Gas To Far Flung Areas’[/tooltip] [dropcap]M[/dropcap]adni Siddiqui, Provincial…
[tooltip text=”By Shehryar Ahmad” gravity=”nw”]Byco: The Nation’s Largest Oil Refining Firm Is Also Pakistan’s Only Vertically Integrated Petroleum Firm[/tooltip] [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n…
[tooltip text=”Karachi, November 27, 2017″ gravity=”nw”]Pak-Qatar Takaful Co-Hosts International Seminar On “Global Takaful Practices” At Iba-Ceif[/tooltip] [dropcap]P[/dropcap]ak-Qatar Takaful group in…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan’s economy has routinely oscillated between periods of relative stability and busts brought about by external payments crises. Failure of…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan has a well-developed cement industry with abundant raw material availability in the country. The country ranks amongst the top…
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]ement demand is growing in Pakistan and it is expected that the major developing infrastructure projects under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he current demand-supply situation in the cement sector indicates excess cement production capacity. During the past one decade, the cement…
[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ven the cursory look at the performance of Pakistan’ cement industry shows highly erratic performance. Since expansion takes place in…
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]herat Cement (CHCC) of Pakistan has announced first quarter net profit-after-tax of PKR606 million (US$5.75 million), up 50 percent year-on-year.…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f anyone examines the below optimum capacity utilization of any industry in the country, the blame could only go the…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]ndia’s cement industry provides employment opportunities to more than a million people. India is the second largest producer of cement…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan is rich in natural resources. Only the educated, skilled and healthy people can make the best use of the…
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]espite having an extremely well-developed cement industry, Pakistan’s per capita cement consumption which stands at 140 kgs, is the lowest…
OVERVIEW [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he company was established in Dera Ghazi Khan under the control of State Cement Corporation of Pakistan Limited (SCCP)…
[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very year, National Savings Day is celebrated on 31st October, still Pakistan continues to be categorized among the low savers…
Demographic trends witnessed from midst of last century till now particularly in economically rich nations identify various generational groups emerged…
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ost of the discussions at experts’ level hover around poor savings rate in the country. However, they tend to completely…
[dropcap]N[/dropcap]ational Savings has appeared as a challengeable vehicle for financial inclusion with introduction of attractive welfare oriented products. It registered…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s a journalist with experience of around two decades, I have witnessed every finance minister saying that Pakistan is going…
[dropcap]E[/dropcap]xperts have been consistently saying that Pakistan has one of the lowest savings rate, but the successive government have been…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap] wo aspects of our economic environment that weigh down on growth are the huge (effective) share of indirect taxes in…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]lthough agriculture sector is dominating sector in Pakistan and is source of employment of majority of its people but industrial…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he banking sector showed a robust growth in advances to the private sector in the quarter ended June 30, 2017,…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan stands amongst the countries with lowest savings-to-GDP ratio, standing at a dismal 14.2 percent in 2015 compared to the…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hough health sector remained the focus of welfare programs launched by every government in the past, but the leakage, misuse…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he World Bank has warned that the economy is now at risk given the scale of the macroeconomic imbalances growing…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he concept of Islamic finance needs to be fully introduced for the promotion of Islamic banking and insurance industry in…
[dropcap]N[/dropcap]early all will say CPEC is a game-changer, but some will ask for whom? Others will flag that CPEC is…
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]eing in marketing for over two decades, I had the opportunity to be carefully observing and studying emerging market trends.…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Mr. Sohel N. Kidwai Chief Executive Officer[/box] HISTORY OF THE PROJECT [dropcap]S[/dropcap]haheen Insurance Company Limited…
[dropcap]E[/dropcap]commerce trade has promising future in Pakistan as this market is getting pace with the rest of the world with…
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne of the prime focuses of economic managers of Pakistan should be ‘achieving food security’ to fill the stomach of…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he issue of withholding tax on banking transactions for non-filers in the budget for next fiscal year (2017-18) need to…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s incredible as it may seem in this hyper-connected, technologically advanced era, half the planet’s population exist as “financial nomads”—those…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]slamic Finance can find rich social grounds for its growth and expansion in Pakistan. What primarily concerns the users of…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter thorough analysis, following have been identified as some of the major causes of power shortage in Pakistan: Increase in…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ccording to Investopedia’s definition, “Fintech is a portmanteau of financial technology that describes an emerging financial services sector in the…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects 7.2 billion passengers to travel in 2035, a near doubling of the 3.8…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ir cargo traffic is prospering as normally seen at the start of an economic uplift raise demand for fast air…
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]alochistan is rich in renewable energy (RE) resources, which must be exploited for sustainable development of the province. The government…
[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ybrid rice is a variety of rice that has been bred from two very different parents. The seed from the…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he government is to allow another bailout package worth Rs13 billion to sick national flag carrier, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).…
[dropcap]G[/dropcap]wadar port will prove a milestone in promoting regional trade between Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan and Central Asian states (CARs)…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan & Gulf Economist (PAGE) witnessed an elderly lady patient being brought by a donkey cart by her family members to…
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ith an estimated size of the retail market at around $50 billion, the country’s retail sector is growing faster than…
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]espite rising local sales the profitability of the cement industry has declined. Cement industry recorded an earnings decline of three…
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]alochistan is a tribal society where women are seen to be discriminated, exploited, oppressed, browbeaten, and chastised in the name…
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]usiness Leadership refers to CEO & C level management of a Business Corporate, since the performance of the entire organization…
(PAGE) was briefed by Mr Shehryar Ahmad, General Manager Communication Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited. Following are the excerpts: [dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne of…
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]riLankan Airlines in its recently ended financial year carried the highest number of passengers ever in the airline’s history. Based…
‘Photography is the calling of my soul… They are just not pictures…They are words that define me…tell me who I…
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]asic mind set of any type of investor is to manage the risk and maximize the returns. The common phenomenon…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is an undeniable fact that Pakistan suffers from two contentious problems: 1) low savings and 2) limited opportunities for…
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ver the past one decade, the businessmen associated with the real estate market made quick millions. The country has witnessed…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan’s rice exports witnessed a decline of around 14 percent during the last fiscal year due to lack of research…
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or those who may not be very familiar with Pakistan’s capital market, the small number of listed companies and shareholders’…
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]oreign investors kept lured to investment in Pakistan and never losing faith and still have an appetite of making money…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is a great scope for setting up small and medium enterprises in mineral sector of Balochistan, a famously rich…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]mong the essential commodities, rice is one of the most important grains and massively protected by governments worldwide. The global…
COMPLIANCE [dropcap]C[/dropcap]ompliance function at banks continuously strives for improving the compliance environment and minimizing compliance risk for the institutions through…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n wake of the US move against a Pakistani bank in New York, Pakistan needs to establish and strengthen its…
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ith the growing menace of drug trafficking, money laundering and financing of terrorist outfit, all around the world governments want…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Neha Makwana & Muhammad Kazmi, Hansuke Consulting Limited, UK[/box] Autumn 2016 saw the HMRC publish an…
Current growth rate of this sector is larger than the growth rate of industrial and agriculture [dropcap]S[/dropcap]ervices sector, which according…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 2014, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) established the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), laying the groundwork for…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n August, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) sought to impose about $630 million penalty on HBL’s…
Burdensome taxation system benefits the rich rather than poor and deprived [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he evasion of tax is one of the much…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]nalysts are of the consensus that those who wish to borrow money from the commercial banks have no option but…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan has signed the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he international community loses hundreds of billions of dollars every year due to trade-based money laundering whereas Pakistan loses $10…
FINANCIAL INCLUSION [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n recent years, financial inclusion is one area where stakeholders of the financial ecosystem have been focusing lately…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan is a country where up to 40 percent of its over 207 million population lives below poverty line –…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan got independence from the British Raj in 1947, but a review of the economic progress of over 70 years…
CPEC related projects can help bring sluggish economy back to life [dropcap]W[/dropcap]orld Bank has recently alerted that macroeconomic risks in…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ccording to World Bank’s forecasts, owing to improved security and energy supply situation, economic growth in Pakistan is expected to…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f anyone visits hospitals and educational institutions operating in the public sector in Pakistan, highly depleted conditions establish two points:…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he persistent downward trend of the exports was substantially short of imports. This is something that needs urgent attention. Pakistan’s…
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]onstituting merely 2 percent of the country’s GDP, the real estate sector can still grow and account for 5 percent…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan is the world’s fourth largest cotton producing country but power and gas cuts have stopped exporters from producing their…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan and Indonesia are two friendly, brotherly countries enjoying historical deep rooted, time tested and all weathered friendship. Both countries…
Pakistan takes third spot in real estate investment in Dubai [dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan has emerged as the third largest real estate investor…
[dropcap]J[/dropcap]uly-September 2017 quarter may be termed one of the worst spells of Pakistan stock market. It was mainly due to…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]raining and development are vital for progressive organizations. It is a fact that poorly trained employees can pose a serious…
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ive Pakistani companies have made it to Forbes annual ‘Asia’s 200 Best Under A Billion’ list, down from seven last…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter the recent Habib Bank Limited (HBL) saga and National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) Bangladesh scam, the need for prudent…
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome of the critics raise serious concerns that Pakistan is suffering substantially due to brain drain. However, the other point…
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e have a lot of potential in our youth and better opportunities would definitely help make productive use of their…
Star Farm taking lead in vocational training plan to promote income generation and employment opportunities in rural areas of the…
[dropcap]H[/dropcap]istorically, the Pakistan Stock Market (KSE100) reached an all time high of 52876.46 in May of 2017 since a record…