Not very long ago, a strong currency symbolised the strength of an economy...
Currency depreciation provides a temporary boost to all kinds of low value-added goods, when only high value-added exports need to be incentivised to boost foreign exchange earnings...
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Saturday directed ARY News to respond to a complaint filed by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) against its report on a list of lawmakers suspected of links with banned militant groups allegedly compiled by the IB...
The list first came to light when ARY News programme 'Power Play' aired a report on Sept 25 claiming that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had directed the IB on...
Local news channel Kohenoor News on Friday claimed to be the first in the country to have hired a transgender woman as a news anchor...
Maavia Malik, who launched her career in the entertainment industry as a model, was first seen on Kohenoor News during a Pakistan Day news transmission on March 23...
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has issued show-cause notices to ARY News and Bol News for airing news items regarding a reshuffle in the federal cabinet and change in the portfolios of some federal ministers, it emerged on Tuesday...
The two media outlets had aired the news on Monday morning about a possible reshuffle in the posts for Minister for Finance and Minister of State for Interior held by Asad Umar...
HYDERABAD: Cantonment police have arrested a man for allegedly carrying fake Indian currency of Rs100,000, two Kalashnikovs and live bullets near Defence phase-II on Thursday...
He was found in possession of Rs100,000 fake Indian currency which he was carrying in a bag, along with two loaded Kalashnikovs with two magazines...
LAHORE: Unidentified attackers hurled a hand grenade on the Lahore office of a local television channel DIN News on Tuesday evening, injuring four people...
Last month, a similar attack outside another news channel, Dunya News' Faisalabad bureau had left three of the channel's employees injured...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports of value-added textile products rose 7...
Official figures show that the government held out support of Rs6bn, mostly to the value-added textile sector, during FY15 as against Rs3bn over the previous year...
Thus, the stamp duty required to be paid/affixed will be according to the value of the property on the date when the agreement is prepared, says a judgment authored by Justice Qazi Faez Isa...
The apex court’s decision came on an appeal against two verdicts of the Lahore High Court (LHC), one from June 18, 2008 and another from March 19, 2012, which dealt with similar issues...
WASHINGTON: The United States has said that it continues to value its partnership with Pakistan and looks forward to rescheduling stalled talks as a former US ambassador warns that using “blunt pressure” on Islamabad could backfire...
“We continue to value our partnership with Pakistan and look forward to scheduling meetings at a mutually convenient time,” said a spokesperson for the US State Department when asked to comment on the...
DUBAI: As Saudi Arabia’s anti-corruption purge sends the shares of some if its companies into a tailspin, the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund has gained in value...
Last week the market value of the Public Investment Fund’s portfolio of Saudi equities jumped by almost $3 billion, Reuters calculations show, even as the arrest or questioning of more than 200 people in the probe caused stocks in many privately controlled firms to...
Tencent's Hong Kong-listed shares have doubled in value this year, and on Monday it became the first Asian company with a market capitalisation of half-a-trillion dollars...
ISLAMABAD: The value of the carbon pricing mechanisms globally has been estimated to be just under $50 billion in 2015, according to a recent report by the World Bank Group and Ecofys...
Emissions trading systems have grown in value to $34bn from $32bn in 2014...
Although the vast majority of salespeople describe themselves as optimists, a survey shows that nearly two-thirds of high-performing sales professionals exhibit pessimistic personality tendencies, Steve W...
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However, the value-added textile segment managed to grow by an impressive 11pc on a year-on-year (YoY) basis to $607mn...
The value-added sector benefitted from higher exports of knitwear, bedwear and garments...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports of value-added textile products recorded positive growth during the first two months of 2017-18, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Wednesday...
The upsurge in the value-added textile category has become the main driver of growth in the country’s overall exports, PBS data shows...