LAHORE - The textile industry on Wednesday called for regionally competitive interest rates, urging the State Bank of Pakistan, which is announcing its key policy rate on Friday, to bring discount rate down to 8 per cent to counter weak growth and revive fresh, private investment in the economy to ...

ISLAMABAD : Sindh province is on top with 84pc mobile phone penetration followed by Punjab where such penetration touched 68.1pc mark till 2012. Other provinces have less than 50 % penetration i.e. KPK 42.2 % and Balochistan 45.9pc. The government and regulator PTA have been encouraging cellular ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US economy grew at a 3.0 percent annual rate in the first quarter, slightly weaker than initially estimated as the country stuggles to recover from recession, government data showed Thursday. The Commerce Department originally estimated gross domestic product increased at a ...

KARACHI - Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) has shown another monotonous week on account of political uncertainty, as the both mainstream political parties decided to go ahead with the impeachment of President Musharraf, resulting KSE-100-index touched its 2-year low of 9,678 points level on August 6, ...