LAHORE - Khaksar Tehreek Pakistan (KTP) led Dr. Sabeeha Arshid Almasharqi staged a protest demonstration in front of Lahore Press Club on Sunday against price-hike and power loadshedding. The participants were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans against price-hike, loadshedding, ...

LAHORE - City reverberated with anti-government slogans due to the irresponsible attitude of the government over blasphemous caricatures besides its anti public policies, which are multiplying public woes. Different protests demonstrations held on Sunday in the City as well as in different parts ...

LAHORE - Provincial Minister for Finance, Planning & Development Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that the present government is trying hard to provide maximum relief to the masses, and it is the need of the hour to work on war-footing to overcome price-hike because middle and poor classes are ...

KARACHI - The sale of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) in the local market has declined by 30 per cent due to increased rate of LPG. Keeping in view a setback to LPG business, the prices of LPG in the domestic market has been reduced to Rs. 65 per kg for the consumers against earlier price of Rs 78, ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Advisor to PM on Finance, Shaukat Tarin has pinned the inflation control with the price spiral. "There is a need to control price hike through administrative measures at grass root level in order to control inflation through out the country". Talking to PTV in "Good Morning ...

The third quarter of the current fiscal year could witness some reduction in the discount rate in the country, provided the price-hike rate was seen reasonably dropped. According to an investigative report, the impacts of the falling international crude, edible oil and other commodities prices were ...

Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) have made a plea to OGRA for allowing 33 percent hike in gas prices. Sources said that both the gas companies have requested for the increase in gas prices effective from December 2008. Sources further said that ...

KARACHI (PPI) - The prices of essential commodities like sugar, flour, ghee, pulses, powder milk and tea have shot up, as the powerful profiteers and hoarder mafia has launched their pre-Ramzan profit drive before the advent of the holy month of Ramzan-ul-Mubarak. Market sources told PPI that ...

KARACHI - Prices of essential items including milk, bread, fruits, vegetables, flour, rice, oil and other commodities have started witnessing an unprecedented surge ahead of the holy month of Ramadan but concerned departments of the Sindh government and CDGK failed miserably to control the alarming ...

LAHORE- President of Supreme Court Bar Association, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan has announced to fight the most serious issue of price-hike through the Supreme Court after non-functional judges at the head of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry are restored to the office. Addressing at a ...

Petrol and diesel prices during the last four months on the average surged by a whopping 53 percent, which has piled miseries on the people in tandem with the industries in particular.Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) president, Tanvir Sheikh told newsmen that the oil ...

KARACHI (PPI) - The small traders have criticised the recent federal budget, saying the raise in sales tax, levy of withholding tax on electricity bills, telephone, cooking oil etc would further increase the price hike. The meeting of All Pakistan Organisation of Small Traders and Cottage ...

KARACHI - With the rising oil prices, market value of edible items has also increased leaving housewives in difficulty in maintaining their household budget. Speaking to The Nation, Roshan Ara, a house wife, said, "Earlier things were not cheap but somehow we affordably manage the things within ...