China on Wednesday said it would spare a number of US products from punitive tariffs in what is seen as an olive branch by Beijing in the protracted trade war ahead of high-level talks next month...
The exemptions will become effective on September 17 and be valid for a year, according to the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, which released two lists that include seafood products and anti-cancer drugs...
ISLAMABAD: Fruity sweets and packets of chicken soup that fall foul of halal laws are disappearing from shop counters as Pakistan looks to clean up its Islamic food credentials to boost exports to Gulf states...
At the start of the year the government published a list of around 20 imported food products it said were not halal, or permitted under Islamic law...
LAHORE: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has allowed transportation of halal products from Pakistan via sea which would bring down freight cost by one third, Punjab Halal Development Agency (PHDA) Chairman Justice (retired) Khalil-ur-Reman Khan said on Tuesday...
He said the Pakistan Halal Authority has also been operational and the first meeting of its Board of Directors is being held on April 13...
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain said on Tuesday that Pakistan is producing state of the art defence products, which have also been exported to friendly countries, according to a report on Radio Pakistan...
The president was also of the opinion that better marketing policies need to be developed in order to enhance export of Pakistani defence products to international clients, said the report...
2bn through domestic sales of petroleum products in 2014-15 was 1...
The major reason behind this low growth was falling international prices of petroleum products during the year...
In a world where fair is usually associated with lovely, fairness products rake in a lot of business, especially when superstars endorse them...
But the times are changing — celebrities like Anushka Sharma are now turning their back on such products by their plain refusal to endorse them...
PESHAWAR: Leaders of various local trader bodies unanimously adopted a resolution on Wednesday announcing the boycott of American products and the staging of a joint rally in the city today (Thursday) to condemn US President Donald Trump’s diatribe against Pakistan...
The speakers said the new US policy on Afghanistan was an insult to the huge sacrifices rendered by Pakistan’s law-enforcement and security personnel and civilians...
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday increased prices of all petroleum products by up to 11 per cent with immediate effect for the month of November...
His argument for the increase in the prices of kerosene oil and LDO was that the move would minimise huge price difference of the two products with petrol and that would discourage mixing of kerosene in petrol...
Production of six petroleum products including jet fuel oil, motor spirits, high-speed diesel, furnace oil, jute batching oil and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) witnessed an increase, while kerosene oil, diesel oil, lubricating oil and solvent naphtha showed negative growth, according to official data available with APP...
The petroleum products that contributed to the positive growth included jet fuel, production of which grew by 5......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue witnessed Rs8 billion decline in sales tax collection from petroleum products during the first half of this fiscal year from a year ago because of lower oil prices...
7 per cent in sale of domestic taxable petroleum products during July-December 2014 from a year ago...
OKARA: The 20-day Jashan-i-Baharan or spring festival concluded here on Wednesday with a big sports show at the district stadium by students of six schools for children with special needs...
They took part in a race, a wheelchair race, a song competition, a tableau and a march past
DUBAI: Islamic finance continues to expand globally but the industry risks losing its differentiation from conventional financial products and lacks official data to ensure better supervision, an oversight body said...
ISLAMABAD: In the absence of a political leadership, the bureaucratic machinery of the state struggled to take a routine monthly decision to revise prices of petroleum products on the due date of July 31 and decided to keep them unchanged for the month of August...
Informed sources said it was legally difficult to change sales tax rates on petroleum products in the absence of a prime minister or the cabinet and hence it was decided to...
HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Sindh High Court’s Hyderabad circuit has directed all sessions judges to order their respective subordinate magistrates to pay surprise visits and take action in accordance with law against those found selling hazardous food in the name of chhaliya [crushed betel nut-based products packed in small pouches]...
In its order, the bench comprising Justice Salahuddin Panhwar and Justice Fahim Ahmed...
SINGAPORE: Pakistan State Oil (PSO) is seeking 905,000 tonnes of gasoline and fuel oil for September, three tender documents showed on Wednesday...