ISLAMABAD (APP):- Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso on Tuesday directed the Minister for Industries and Production to ensure availability of affordable items at Utility Stores without compromising their quality. The Prime Minister said that the quality of utility stores items should not be ...

lahore - Pakistani businessmen, under US GSP scheme, can make duty-free exports of 3,500 items including gemstones, precious metals, jewellery, leather sports gloves, mittens and mitts; certain non-cotton pillows, cushions and similar furnishings; certain athletic articles and equipment; ...

ISLAMABAD – A 10-day exhibition titled ‘Stitching and Chai’ showcasing hand embellished products by homebound women entrepreneurs opened here at Nomad Art Gallery (NAG). The exhibition has been organised with the support from the United States Agency for International ...

LAHORE - The Indian High Commissioner Sharat Shabharwal has said that all items would be importable through Wagha Border very soon as the government of Pakistan has given an assurance to this regard.The High Commissioner was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry. HE said that ...

The Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly on Thursday took notice of sale of sub standard items at Utility Store Corporation outlets. A meeting of PAC was held here with Nadeem Afzal Chan in the chair. The committee instructed for sale of standard items at USC. Chan expressed his ...

KARACHI - Saifuddin N Zoomkawala, chairman of the EFU Insurance, has asked the government, policy-makers and exporters to continue their efforts to promote exports of textile and other traditional items, but without further neglecting the exports of non-traditional items.The country has never ...

LAHORE – SALMAN ABDUHU - Legal importers across the country are constantly facing troubles as they have to pay up to 65 percent duty on import of every tool of hardware sector while the same goods are being brought into country without paying a single penny as tax under the guise of Afghan ...

While talking to German journalists at Berlin on Saturday, Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif looked forward to the day when Pakistan, with the help of German know-how and technology, would be counted among the front rank countries in the export of food items. Pakistan is participating in an ...

mirpur : In the wake of weekly bilateral trans-LoC trade, Kashmiri businessmen from AJK and IHK Tuesday exchanged goods, under barter system, containing permitted items of over Rs. 14.319m along LoC at Taitrinote-Chakan-Da-Bagh Crossing point in Rawalakot.  At least 25 trucks rolled out from ...

CHARSADDA - A non-profit organisation, the Poverty Eradication Initiative (PEI), has distributed non-food items worth more than Rs2 million among 342 flood affected and underprivileged families in Sardheri village.According to a press release issued here on Monday, the relief items including ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Township and Raiwind police have arrested three dacoits and a drug peddler on Tuesday and recovered 163 bottles of liquor, motorbikes, looted cash, mobile and other valuables from their possession. Following special directives by the Operations Police Chief, DSP Jehangir ...

BAHAWALPUR - The relief goods worth Rs5.1 million for the flood affectees of Badin have been sent here on Monday under the supervision of the Provincial, Prisons Minister Iqbal Channer and the Advisor to the Punjab CM, Baleeghur Rehman on the directive of Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif. The relief goods ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER JHANG - Despite setting up nine Sasta Ramzan bazaars, the district and tehsil administrations have failed in regulating prices of essential commodities. According to a survey conducted, 20 to 35 percent increase in the price of fruit, vegetable, dates other daily use items was ...

ISLAMABAD - Judicial Commission set up to probe the killing of Saleem Shahzad in a mysterious manner on Monday recorded the statement of brother-in-law of slain journalist, while Mandi Bahuddin police handed over the articles recovered from Shahzads vehicle. The meeting was held in the chair of ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Upcoming trade policy must focus on promoting exports of non-traditional items as concentration on a few items is hitting the countrys exports hard. In his trade policy proposals on Tuesday, Chairman Pakistan Industrial and Traders Association Front (PIAF) Sohail Lashari ...

LAHORE Invoking original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, a constitutional petition has been filed to question the regulatory duty on 379 'non-essential/luxury items from 15 percent to 50 percent imposed through an SRO in August 2008. The petition has been filed by M/s Khawar Paper Mart and four ...

LAHORE Putting Wednesday in the historical perspective of the Punjab Assembly, it was certainly a different one considering hurling of abuses and throwing of things at a respectable member by another worthy MPA, and was a scene to remember for at least many years to come provided someone dares to ...

A COLLECTION of 271 items of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso have been discovered in France, El Pais newspaper reported Monday. The never-before-seen items, including the most famous anti-war painting Gernika, were discovered when a retired French electrician, Pierre Le Guennec, got in contact with ...

KARACHI - Towel Manufactures Association Chairman Waqar Alam has said duty-free access for high demand items such as home textiles and towels must be included in European Union package. He said it is a welcome sign that all 27 members of European Union have decided to provide greater access to ...

ISLAMABAD While the incumbent government and humanitarian agencies are claiming to provide relief items to all the flood-affected areas, reportedly, certain incidents of distributing aid in the villages where the relief items and not needed and flood wave has not even touched the soil of area have ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Vending of fake and substandard food items at even elevated rates has become a matter of grave concern for visitors in picnic spots of twin cities. The prices of food items are too high and it is really costly that branded tin pack of the cold drink that is available at Rs35 in the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The governments subsidy of Rs. 4.5 billion on different items to Utility Store Corporation (USC) for the relief of the people specially the common man to stay. This was stated by Managing Director of Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan (USC) Arif Khan in an exclusive interview ...

ISLAMABAD - Ministry of Food and Agriculture, in its budget recommendations for the forthcoming budget, has recommended the federal government to completely waive off the Regulatory Duty on the import of 205 agriculture items or reduce it to up to 10 per cent. According to sources, Ministry of ...

RAWALPINDI (APP) - President of Rawlpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) Kashif Shabbir on Saturday said it was need of the hour to promote non-traditional items for export and the government should provide basic facilities to business community in this regard. He stated this while ...

KARACHI - A huge quantity of coconut, big cardamom, coriander seeds and turmeric is coming into the local markets illegally, reportedly through Cross-LoC trade, The Nation has learnt. It was learnt that these daily-use items are making their way into the local markets on the plea that they are ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan and Iran will enlarge the lists of items under preferential trade agreement (PTA). According to a private news channel this was decided in the 5th Pak-Iran joint trade committee. It was also decided that Pak-Iran experts meeting would be held in Islamabad in August for ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The import of over 100 items were allowed from India through land route of Wagha border, said a top official of the Ministry of Commerce. There are total 6575 items on custom tariff import list from India out of which import of 1940 items are allowed, he told APP while commenting ...

KARACHI - Nestle Pakistan contributed essential food items as a way of providing indispensable aid to the victims of the recent earthquake in Ziarat, Baluchistan. Nestle Pakistan's contribution comes at a crucial time for the survivors of the earthquake, who are mainly affected by cold weather, ...

ISLAMABAD- The government Saturday reduced prices of 1300 essential daily usage items from 5 to 10 per cent at Utility Stores under Special Ramazan Package of Rs 1750 million. "People are facing a lot of problems due to inflation and Ramazan Package will lessen their worries", said Finance and ...

ISLAMABAD (Online)- Owing to negligence of the authorities concerned, the sale of substandard goods are continuing at higher prices at the kiosks allotted by Capital Development Authority (CDA). The capital's authority allotted hundreds of kiosks in different sectors of the capital and ...