LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Friday sought a detailed report from Environment Department, Climate Change Division, Wildlife Department and Punjab Government about number of licences issued to import white tiger in Pakistan and also the figure of the dangerous animal.Expressing dismay over ...

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 Lahore High Court on Monday issued notice to the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) and sought reply on a petition challenging import of alleged substandard carbon dioxide from India.Justice Ayesha A Malik passed the orders on the petition moved by Colony Sugar Mills through its ...

ISLAMABAD - Amid countrywide worsening power outages coupled with cash starvation like situation at the government’s end, hours long loadshedding to continue in near future as Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has so far not received the required money to import furnace oil for power generation ...

LAHORE - SALMAN ABDUHU - Only big exporters and large scale manufacturers are availing full benefit of duty-free raw material under DTRE Scheme, because SMEs can neither comply with the lengthy, complicated and cumbersome procedures nor can they import full consignment of containers. Industry ...

ISLAMABAD - Tea import in country during first eight months of current financial year registered an increase of 10.73 per cent as compared to imports of corresponding period of last year.During the period from July-February, 2012-13 country consumed about 89,738 metric tons of tea costing US$ ...

ISLAMABAD - Seeking a detailed briefing for federal interior secretary and director general passport and immigration regarding import of lamination paper from a US company that allegedly do not meet criteria, Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday stayed the process of import of lamination paper ...

ISLAMABAD - The import of fertilizers recorded 61 per cent reduction as compared to last financial year as some 625,000 ton fertilizers was imported during first six months of fiscal year. Total 340 million dollars were utilized on the import of fertilizers. During the same span of last financial ...

Islamabad : The import of palm oil has been reduced to 16.6pc during first five months of the financial year. According to the Statistics Division, the palm oil worth of $60.43m was imported from July to Nov this year whereas in the same months of previous year 2011 palm oil of $80.20m was ...

DASKA - The arrival of Indian potato in local markets has greatly affected the local potato growers as price of local potato has decreased drastically. The local growers are perturbed over the reduced price of their bumper potato yield during this season. They remained unable to get the profit from ...

LAHORE - The Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts and Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM), flaying the abrupt changes in current policy regarding motorcycle industry, has said that the plan to allow a new investor to import all motorcycle parts at zero duty will not only be a negation of ...

The Supreme Court Thursday turned down the objections by the Registrar Office and accepted for hearing a petition against import of electricity from India.During hearing of the Wattan Party petition by the two member bench of the Apex Court headed by Justice Ijaz Afzal Khan, Barrister Zafrullah ...

ISLAMABAD - The country’s oil and food import bill has gone up by 23.11 per cent during the first seven (July-January) of the current financial year 2011-12 against the same period last year, as it has recorded at $11.794 billion in the period under review against $9.58 billion of the same ...

LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry has urged the Federal Board of Revenue to help stop smuggling of Plastic Moulding Compound from Iran by land route.The LCCI President Irfan Qaiser Sheikh was talking to a delegation of Plastic Importers and Traders Association led by the Chairman ...

KARACHI - Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has awarded import contracts for a total of 250,000 metric tons (MTs) of Urea at $431.45 per metric ton (PMT) C&F, to four different responsive bidders on the lowest bid price basis.Thirteen bidders participated in the tender and quoted prices ...

ISLAMABAD - The country’s trade deficit has gone up by over 38 per cent to $11.48 billion during the first half (July-December) of the ongoing financial year 2011-2012 against the same period of last year mainly due to higher import bill.According to the figures released by Federal Bureau of ...

AHMAD AHMADANIISLAMABAD - The PPP-led ruling coalition in a surprising move has decided to import 500mmcfd LNG from Qatar in sheer violation of its LNG Policy 2011, ostensibly to meet the swelling needs of consumers, sources said on Tuesday.According to detail, Federal Minister for Petroleum and ...

ISLAMABAD - The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) signed an agreement with the Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) on Wednesday for the supply of approximately 200,000 tonnes of urea fertilizer to Pakistan.This urea will be supplied under a $100 million credit facility provided to ...

KARACHI - TDAP is going to import the 5,000 seeds of Japonica rice for cultivation in the country and then export to commodity. TDAP CE Tariq Iqbal said this in a meeting with traders at here on Friday.He said price of Japonica rice is around $1000 per ton while Pakistan’s traditional rice is ...

KARACHI - The Model Customs Collectorate of Appraisement on Sunday disbanded 73 import companies and container terminals in Pakistan for their alleged embezzlement in transportation of goods.The Pakistan Customs took the notice on the information of Customs intelligence that tax stealing was ...

LAHORE (APP) - A high level private sector trade delegation from Afghanistan will visit the provincial metropolis after Eid to import Pakistan made diesel engines for agricultural purpose. Chief Executive Officer KAM Engineering, Khalid Saeed Khan told APP here Sunday that the Pakistan made KAM ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Private sector has imported 6,600 metric tons of LPG during October while importers are expecting to import same volumes in November to cater demand of the country, the LPG Association of Pakistan (LPGAP) said on Tuesday. Imports are being made in order to ensure the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KARACHI - Trading Corporation of Pakistan awarded a contract for import of another 45,000 MT urea to M/s. Helm Dungmittel, Geneva against the tender opened on Oct 28 at the lowest quoted price of $538 PMT C&F, said a press release issued on Monday. The bidder initially quoted ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) The import of mobile phone in the country has registered increase of 13.79 percent during the month of August, as compared to the previous month of July, 2011. The import of the commodity in the country stood at $56.04 million during August 2011 whereas its import in July, 2011 ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) Ministry of Petroleum is actively engaged to pave the way for the import of 500mmcf Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) on emergent basis which will exclusively be used for the generation of 2,500 MW electricity in the country. Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim ...

ISLAMABAD - The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) is set to issue a regular license to Global Energy Infrastructure (GEI) Pakistan to set up a terminal, jetty and allied facilities at Port Qasim for import of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). GEI is likely to get a regular license very soon from a ...

ISLAMABAD - The countrys oil and food import bill had surged by over 36 per cent in one-year period, as it has recorded at $3.478 billion during the first two months (July-August) of the current financial year 2011-2012 against the $2.545 billion of the same period last year. The import bill of ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Owing to record high price of the gold in the international gold markets, gold import in the country dropped by 14.49 per cent during the first month of current financial year. During the month of July, about 105 kg of gold worth $ 5.1 million was imported as compared to 125 kg ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan may import as much as 180,000 tonnes of palm oil for July and has covered a lot of its requirement of the vegetable oil ahead of Ramazan, a top industry official said on Wednesday. Ramazan will start in the first week of August, boosting edible oil consumption in the ...

ISLAMABAD - The countrys food and oil import bills have went up by 22.11 per cent during the first eleven months (July-May) period of the outgoing financial year 2010-11 mainly due to higher prices of oil and food commodities in international market. The import bill of food and oil has recorded ...