ISLAMABAD - Rehabilitation and upgradation of 43km Taxila-Khanpur-Haripur Highway and its completion would boost trade, tourism and industry and facilitate the people. This 43km federalized highway starts at Taxila on Peshawar Rawalpindi National Highway and reaches Khanpur and Haripur and this is ...

LAHORE (PR): New research from Tetra Pak, the world’s leading food processing and packaging company, forecasts that flavoured milk consumption will grow at more than double the rate of white milk globally between 2012 and 2015. Consumers are increasingly turning to tasty, nutritious and ...

LAHORE - Textile industry has moved the Supreme Court of Pakistan against unequal power supply to the Punjab industry on the plea that the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) SRO 45(I)/2005 dated 11th January 2005 has categorically stipulated that equality is to be maintained among ...

Lahore- The manufacturers, while flaying the new goods transportation system of axle load limitation, have observed that it has resulted into transport shortage in the country impacting the sale of all kinds of commodities including cement. “It must be understood that in order to keep the ...

LAHORE - The manufacturers and exporters, while appreciating the new government plan of merging more than a dozen federal divisions into their previous ministries, have called for a merger of Ministries of Commerce and Production & Industries, as the amalgamation of unnecessary divisions would ...

FAISALABADAn exporters association has strongly criticised the four-day a week gas suspension for the industries in Punjab province and said the gas suspension will toll the death-knell for the export industry.PTEA Chairman Mr Asghar Ali said that the Association had already urged the government to ...

ISLAMABAD -The government needs to make effective efforts to regulate the local tobacco industry in order to discourage the entry of smuggled and counterfeit cigarettes in the domestic market as it is badly impacting the local sector.The World No Tobacco Day is marked on May 31 and it generally ...

Mexico City - Mexico’s new telecommunications law aims to break the hold of dominant players that have made the country’s industry an anomaly on the global map and rebuild it “brick by brick,” a senior government official said on Friday.The law, approved by Mexico’s ...

Lahore - Chairman All Pakistan Cottage Industry & Small Traders Ghulam Sarwar Malik has said that growth of manufacturing sector and economic stability was not possible without strengthening the cottage industry and the PML-N government would have to evolve a comprehensive strategy and announce ...

Lahore - Textile industry is passing through unprecedented loadshedding in the history of Pakistan, as no such abnormal electricity cuts have ever been made in the past. Accordingly, dire consequences of the prevailing situation are emerging out fast in the textile hubs of the country. ...

FAISALABADThe All Pakistan Textile Processing Mills Association criticised the caretaker government’s decision to adopt new measures through a presidential ordinance to generate additional revenue by imposing taxes on textile industry without taking all the stakeholders into confidence.APTPMA ...

Lahore - Chairman All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Ahsan Bashir has expressed concern over energy crisis prevailing since last one week, which is likely to linger on until the new government is in place. The mills are being exposed to 16 to 18 hours per day load shedding of ...

lahore - With the highest cost of doing business in the region, the tanning sector is already under pressure and decision of Nepra to increase tariff by Rs 5.80 per unit will prove last nail in the coffin of this industry.The industry is already facing loadshedding of 8 to 10 hours which has added ...

lahore - The textile industry is being exposed to 14–16 hours a day loadshedding of electricity now against total exemption from loadshedding of electricity on independent feeders during the same period last year. The industry circles have apprehended heavy losses due to short supply of gas ...

lahore - On behalf of the textile industry, Chairman All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Ahsan Bashir has felicitated Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Mian Shahbaz Sharif on securing landslide victory in the general elections in centre and the province of Punjab. He has expressed the hope ...

lahore - The business community has felicitated Pakistan Muslim League- N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif on his overwhelming victory in the 2013 elections, in the Centre as well as in Punjab, and expressed the hope that the new government would not only succeed in attracting new investments to the country ...

After ‘Bol’, ‘Khuda Key Liye’ and now ‘Chambeli’, I feel Pakistani cinema has started emerging finally. Our filmmaker’s hard work is finally showing its true colour. People have started going back to the cinemas to watch Pakistani movies. Now, it is our and ...

ISLAMABAD : The govt has so far released Rs 158.900 million for five major projects of the Textile Industry Division under its PSDP, official sources said Friday. The total cost of all these projects has been estimated at Rs 2081.440, out of which Rs 227m would be released during the ongoing year. ...

Lahore - The All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) on Friday released production data of April, saying the domestic consumption of cement posted healthy rise of over 6 percent in first ten months of this fiscal. According to the latest statistics, the cement sector dispatched 27.664 ...

lahore - SALMAN ABDUHU  - Taking serious note of the large scale import of virus-infected poultry products from bird flue hit China, the poultry industry has said that non-stop entry of unhealthy chicken is not only a serious risk to humans but also a great threat to local poultry sector due ...

lahore - The representatives of industrial bodies, expressing disappointment over weak economic agenda of political parties, have observed that no national level party has given any plan for revival of the export-oriented industry, particularly the value-added textile sector, which is constantly ...

lahore -  Punjab Halal Development Agency (PHDA) has launched first time in Pakistan a Halal training course entitled “Certified Food Safety & Halal Professional Course” with collaboration of Bureau Veritas where 25 graduates are participating from all over the Punjab.While ...

chicago - New efforts to force labeling of foods made with genetically modified crops, including a bill introduced by US lawmakers Wednesday, have struck a nerve with biotech crop developers who say they are rushing to roll out a broad strategy to combat consumer concerns about their ...

islamabad - Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry, General Manager Sui Northern Gas Company Limited Islamabad Region, visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry and, while addressing the business community, said that SNGPL is working to enhance gas supply duration for industry from 3 days to 4 days in a ...

rawalpindi - The RCCI President Manzar Khurshid Sheikh has said that Chamber always promoted local products and played its key role to enhance national exports. He said that Small and Cottage Industry has become a big reason for economic development of any country but unfortunately the said ...

ISLAMABAD : The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has approved draft Pharmaceutical Industry (Cost Accounting Records) Order, 2013 to facilitate maintenance of records by the companies engaged in the production, processing and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals products.Pharmaceutical ...

lahore - The representatives of trade and industry, while threatening civil disobedience because of government’s non-seriousness to control power outages, have urged the authorities to shun discriminatory attitude and provide electricity and gas to the industry in Punjab.President Sahiwal ...

lahore - As industry is the main engine of country’s economic growth and PML-N leadership wanted to boost industrial sector, that why traders across the country would vote for PML-N candidates to elect Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif as Prime Minister of the country third time.These views were ...

LAHORE  -Chief Minister Punjab Najam Sethi has asked both the Minister for Petroleum & Natural Resources as well as the Minister for Water & Power to resolve energy supply issue of textile industry in Punjab by Sunday morning.He has constituted a committee of both the ministries and ...

lahore : The trade and industry have refused to accept the government load management plan of electricity and gas from next week onwards, saying that the industry will register FIRs against the government if it tried to close the textile mills by force in Punjab.Moreover, the Lahore Chamber of ...