ISLAMABAD: The beverage industry has warned the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) that the proposed four per cent federal excise duty (FED) dubbed as sugar tax would not only push up prices but would also hit $200 million investments plan by two key carbonated soft-drink companies...
At the same time the two companies have written a joint letter to the prime minister informing him that the proposed 4pc FED on beverages was unfair as it...
However, Advocate Sultan Ahmed Sheikh, who represented Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Pakistan, Karachi, that has sold the red syrup under the coined name of Rooh Afza for decades, informed the Supreme Court about the market size of the product...
ISLAMABAD: The products of only one out of four international beverage brands available on the local market have been found to be in compliance with national and international standards of food quality, officials of the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration told Dawn on Thursday...
Earlier this month, inspection teams led by Assistant Commissioner (City) Saad Bin Asad and accompanied by officials from the Pakistan Standards...
LAHORE: Punjab Food Authority (PFA) teams continued sealing on Monday bottled water plants, beverage factories and eateries for hygiene issues...
LAHORE: CocaCola Beverages Pakistan Limited (CCBPL) says only the returnable glass bottle production line at its Rahim Yar Khan plant has been sealed...
The notice, available with Dawn, states that the PFA scientific panel had given eight months to the beverage industry to change the word “energy” on labels of their products, and instead say “stimulant”...
The instructions to beverage firms included mentioning “highly caffeinated drink” on the products, that the drinks were not suitable for pregnant women and children less than 12 years of age...
LAHORE: The aerated beverage industry has reported up to 40 per cent reduction in sales volume after the government increased the Federal Excise Duty to 20pc from 13pc through the mini-budget in February...
Industry sources said the duty hike is adversely impacting all the manufacturing companies down the chain and may render thousands of people jobless...
Over the span of the last one decade, Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan aka Xulfi remains to be one of the most vibrant and influential musicians of the current wave in Pakistan...
However, the man who was behind popular bands like Fawad Khan-famed 'EP', Junaid Khan's 'Call' and saw their glory days is not very hopeful about the music scene until and unless it is recognised as a separate industry...
An emergency meeting of the business leaders of Sialkot was held at Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) office on Saturday with SCCI president Mian Imran Akbar in the chair...
Especially focuses on security of foreigner employeesSCCI President Mr Akbar told Dawn the scars the Friday incident left on the export-based industry of Sialkot might take a long time to heal...
In an evolving world of work— the rapid creation and destruction of jobs— the issue of unemployment has acquired centrality in the development process and has led to the question of whether jobs, or workers, should be protected?Looking from an egalitarian perspective, the welfare of millions revolves around four things: full employment (including self-employment), fair wages, reasonable prices and an accelerated programme for community...
ISLAMABAD: Tourism is already a key sector in Pakistan, makes for 2...
4 million jobs, but this is far below Pakistan’s potential, said World Bank Country Director Anthony Cholst on Monday...
ISLAMABAD: The country’s economy needs to create more jobs by taking advantage of the large influx of a well-educated young labour force, says a new research by the World Bank...
One of the key findings is that there are insufficient jobs where bachelor and graduate degree holders are expected to use their acquired skills...
When Kainat Naz joined a women-friendly technology boot camp a year ago, she had no idea it would completely change her life and her views on how women can work in conservative Pakistan...
So she signed up for a tech programme called TechKaro, an initiative by Circle — a social enterprise that aims to improve women’s economic rights in Pakistan — and is now working full-time for a software company...
HARARE: Around 200 hundred people from Zimbabwe’s main trade union on Saturday marched to government offices in Harare to demand that President Robert Mugabe fix the ailing economy and fulfil an election promise to create over 2 million jobs...
Addressing the workers, ZCTU leader George Nkiwane said Mugabe’s ZANU-PF government must fulfil its election promise to create over 2m jobs because “we haven’t seen any single job that has been...
GUJRAT: PML-N lawmakers from Gujrat are being given a special quota in the hundreds of Grade 4 jobs in different departments of the district government allegedly at the behest of the provincial government...
Official sources told Dawn that around 2,000 jobs Grade 1 to 4, which had already been advertised by health, education, agriculture and livestock departments, Tehsil Municipal Administration and the district council, would be...