KARACHI: Taj Gasoline Ltd, a private oil marketing company (OMC) operating 61 retail sites in Sindh, has submitted a public announcement of intention to buy at least 41 per cent shareholding of Hascol Petroleum Ltd, a troubled player in the downstream industry...
71 apiece at the close on Wednesday, are trading on the defaulters’ counter of the Pakistan Stock Exchange...
KARACHI: Sindh Rangers spokesman said on Wednesday that the paramilitary force “has every right to adopt legal course against the elements involved in tarnishing its image among masses”...
“There is absolutely no truth in these advertisements and Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, is contemplating to take legal action against those behind the publication,” he said...
KARACHI: Director General (DG) Rangers Major General Bilal Akbar on Tuesday clarified that the paramilitary force did not raid the house of MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar, after the media reported that Rangers personnel had surrounded Sattar’s home in PIB Colony area of the metropolis...
Rangers personnel, however, did carry out a search operation in PIB Colony, in the areas adjacent to Sattar’s residence on a tip-off about the presence...
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...
MANILA: China’s plan to cut its steel production capacity by 100-150 million tonnes will lead to the loss of up to 400,000 jobs, the official Xinhua news agency reported...
China will raise funds to help workers should they lose their jobs when coal and steel firms close amid campaigns to cut overcapacity, according to Xinhua...
KARACHI: Around 125,000-150,000 new jobs (direct and indirect) were created by 1,600 auto vending units during the last one year after opening of jobs at local auto assembling plants of cars, light and heavy commercial vehicles and two wheelers...
Vice Chairman, Pakistan Association of Automobile Parts and Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM), Mehmood Alam Sherani, said for each job created at the vehicle assembling units, around 80 to...
This fact, highlighted in the few reports filed from Pakistan but largely pushed to the sidelines in American discourse, may in fact present the most crucial clues regarding global labour movements, the import of societal conservatism, and its consequent escalation into a murderous rage pinned to misguided zealotry...
The trickle-down effect was and continues to be crucial to Pakistan’s labour export market, bringing in several...
LAHORE: Visually challenged people blocked on Wednesday the Metro bus service corridor for more than 10 hours in protest at the non-regularisation of their jobs...
Up to 25 challenged people gathered at Kalma Chowk and blocked the dedicated Metro bus route to get attention of the provincial government for regularisation of their service and quota in jobs...
“We want to make sure that companies bring back that money onshore to reinvest in American equipment and American jobs,” he told CNBC in a June interview...
Economists have long clashed over whether tax cuts lead to jobs growth...
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Friday took notice of an application filed by a university student pertaining to the high fees liable to be paid by applicants for job vacancies, according to a statement issued from the public relations department of the Supreme Court...